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2011 Annual Conference
Public Data on a Budget:
Making Critical Policy Decisions in the Current Fiscal Climate
September 21-22, 2011
George Washington University, The Cloyd Heck Marvin Center
800 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Updated Agenda
Registration Form
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New Evaluations of the 2010 Census
The Census Bureau has released new updates on their evaluations of the 2010 Census. More details can be found here.
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Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – Employment and Unemployment Among Youth – Summer 2011
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – National Compensation Survey: Health and Retirement Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – Productivity and Costs by Industry: Wholesale Trade, Retail Trade, and Food Services and Drinking Places Industries, 2010
- Census Bureau – 2010 Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll
- Department of Agriculture – Economic Research Service – Farm Income
- National Center for Health Statistics – Consumption of Sugar Drinks in the United States, 2005–2008
- National Center for Health Statistics – Resting Pulse Rate Reference Data for Children, Adolescents, and Adults: United States, 1999–2008
- National Science Foundation – Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards: 2007–08
- Pew Hispanic Center – Hispanic College Enrollment
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Calls for Comment
APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections (http://www.apdu.org/advocacy.asp). We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
Census Bureau
- Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions (October 25, 2011)
Office of the Secretary, DOL
- Family and Medical Leave Act Employer and Employee Surveys, 2011 (September 26, 2011)
Economic Research Service, USDA
- Rural Establishment Innovation Survey (October 25, 2011)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- National Balancing Indicators Project (NBIP) Direct Service Workforce Data Collection Effort (October 25, 2011)
Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD
- Section 8 Random Digit Dialing Fair Marketing Rent Surveys (September 28, 2011)
Office of Justice Programs
- Census of Problem-Solving Courts 2011 (October 25, 2011)
Corporation for National and Community Service
- Current Population Survey Civic Engagement Supplement (September 26, 2011)
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Webinar
Delivering What Users Want: The History of U.S. Census Small Area Data
September 7, 2011
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Register
Since the late nineteenth century, the U.S. Census Bureau has met the growing demand for new types of small area data. Beginning with the 1890 Census, the Census Bureau attempted to make small area data more routine and consistent and expand the scope of such data in its products. The Census Bureau was responding to requests from public health agents who wanted to investigate causes of disease, which, at that time, they saw as overcrowding, poor sanitation, and possibly topography. Tract level data, first introduced in New York City in the 1910 Census, was added for other cities and became essential for social welfare programming, business purposes, and local government planning. Fast forward to the internet age and widespread demand for Block Group and Block Level data for a host of applications. Michael Snow, historian at the U.S. Census Bureau, will present this fascinating history of the development of small area data products.
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Forum:
Data Collection on Agriculture in a Time of Fiscal Constraints
September 13, 2011
9:00 am – 11:00 am
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW
Washington, DC
Cost : Free
RSVP here by Friday, September 9th
Cutbacks in federal and state budgets bring into question the capacity of government entities to gather and analyze agricultural data. At the same time, there is increasing demand for more information, and more specific information, on which to build business management and policy making decisions.
Learn more here.
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Meeting:
Census Bureau
Census Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting
September 22, 2011
8:30 AM – 5 PM EDT
September 23, 2011
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Census Bureau Conference Center
4600 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, MD
For more information contact Jeri Green 301-763-6590
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Census Data Workshops
September 27, 2011
Washington, D.C.
Cost: Free
Register
American FactFinder
9:00 AM – Noon EDT
This workshop features the main online data access and dissemination tool, American FactFinder. This workshop allows data users, through practical exercises, to become familiar with data, including the means to create queries and thematic maps.
Local Employment Dynamics
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
This workshop features an overview of the Local Employment Dynamics program, which pulls together data on the day-time workforce population. This workshop provides hands-on exercises that show data users how to extract variables from the LED OnTheMap online application to create custom tables for data analysis.
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Call for Abstracts:
2012 Applied Demography Conference
January 8-10, 2012
San Antonio, Texas
Sponsored by:
- The Institute for Demographic & Socioeconomic Research
- The Department of Demography at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Learn more here. The deadline for receiving submissions is Friday, September 30th, 2011.
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