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ASA Tracks FY12 Statistical Agency Budget Developments
APDU Board Member Steve Pierson frequently tracks statistical agency budget developments for the American Statistical Association blog.
Access his latest blog entry on FY12 appropriations developments.
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Legacy Version of American FactFinder to Retire January 20, 2012
The Census Bureau will be ending the legacy version of American FactFinder on January 20. Any deep links into the discontinued system will no longer work, including links to:
- 1990 Census
- 2000-2004 American Community Survey
- 2000-2001 Supplementary Survey
- 1997 Economic Census
- 2003 Annual Survey of Manufactures
- 2003 Nonemployer Statistics
These products will only be available through an archived FTP format. All other current and previous year data from the American Community Survey, Puerto Rico Community Survey, Annual Population Estimates, Economic Census, and Annual Economic Surveys are available in the new American FactFinder. Access the how-to guide for Building Deep Links into the New American Factfinder to learn how to create links.
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Census Project Blog Highlights Digital Divide
Terri Ann Lowenthal writes about the difficulty an online census may have in reaching the nation’s older and disadvantaged population. Read the full blog engry here.
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Census Bureau Launches Redesigned Homepage
The Census Bureau recently launched its redesigned homepage, the first of several steps in a progressive series of enhancements to census.gov over the next year designed to make content more accessbile, useful, comprehensible, and interesting to the broadest possible audience. Some of the new features and tools users will experience are:
- A prominent dashboard featuring economic indicators
- A top dropdown menu for quick navigation to key topics
- A new interactive map showing a mash up of economic and demographic statistics
- A “Stat of the Day” highlighting Census Bureau statistics across all data programs
- A “mega footer” with links categorized under familiar topics and highly visited pages
- A feature for data users to provide feedback
- More prominent placement of latest releases
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Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
- Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality – Health Care Expenditures for the Five Most Common Children’s Conditions, 2008: Estimates for U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Children, Ages 0-17
- Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality – The Uninsured in America, First Half of 2010: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population under Age 65
- Bureau of Justice Statistics – Capital Punishment, 2010 – Statistical Tables
- Bureau of Justice Statistics – Census of Jail Facilities, 2006
- Bureau of Justice Statistics – Correctional Population in the United States, 2010
- Bureau of Justice Statistics – Federal Justice Statistics, 2009
- Bureau of Justice Statistics – Federal Justice Statistics, 2009 – Statistical Tables
- Bureau of Justice Statistics – Justice Expenditures and Employment, 1982-2007 – Statistical Tables
- Bureau of Justice Statistics – Prisoners in 2010
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (2011 Edition)
- Carolina Population Center – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Living Arrangements in Young Adulthood: Results from Wave IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
- Department of Agriculture – Economic Research Service – Agricultural Outlook: Statistical Indicators
- Department of Agriculture – Economic Research Service – Major Uses of Land in the United States, 2007
- Department of the Treasury – U.S. Economic Statistics – Monthly Data
- Department of the Treasury – U.S. Economic Statistics – Quarterly Data
- National Center for Health Statistics – Drug Poisoning Deaths in the United States, 1980–2008
- National Center for Health Statistics – Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the January-June 2011 National Health Interview Survey
- National Center for Health Statistics – Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-June 2011
- United States Conference of Mayors – Hunger & Homelessness Survey
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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):
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Residential Care Facility and Adult Day Service Center Components of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers (February 14, 2012)
Institute of Education Sciences
- High School Longitudinal Study of 2009: High School Transcript Collection and College Update Field Test and Second Follow-up Panel Maintenance (January 19, 2012)
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From all the staff at APDU, we would like to wish you the happiest of holidays and a wonderful new year!
The APDU Data Update will return January 5, 2012.
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The Council for Community & Economic Research
Webinar:
The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2010
January 18, 2012
3:00 – 4:00 PM EST
Register
In November, the Census Bureau, with assistance from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and in consultation with other appropriate agencies and outside experts, introduced a new measure of poverty to complement the official measure, which has been in use since the 1960s. The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) is intended to better reflect contemporary social and economic realities and government policy effects and thus provide a further understanding of economic conditions and trends. This presentation will provide some technical background on the differences between the SPM and the official poverty measure and present estimates of the prevalence of poverty at the national level – overall and for selected demographic groups – for both the official and supplemental measures.
Pricing:
LMI Training Institute Member States: Free
C2ER: Free
APDU: $25.00
Non-members: $50.00
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Job Announcement:
Freelance Editor
Due to Budget cutbacks, the U.S. Census Bureau has decided to end the Statistical Abstract of the United States with the 2012 edition. Bernan Press would like to ensure that this invaluable reference continues. To that end, we are seeking freelance editors and consultants to format large text files; research, collect, and edit large bodies of business, labor, economic, and other government data; and assist with other tasks associated with this publication. These editors and consultants will work with other members of the Bernan Press staff to ensure the timeliness, accuracy, and overall content quality of the Statistical Abstract.
Learn more here.
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