APDU Data Update

APDU Data Update

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Data Privacy Day

January 26 is Data Privacy Day.  The Census Bureau’s Robert Groves recently reflected on the meaning of this day in light of the Bureau’s operational mission.  Access the Director’s blog post.  
 

Notable Data Publications

Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.

• Census Bureau – 2006 – 2010 ACS 5-Year PUMS
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey – The Concentration and Persistence in the Level of Health Expenditures over Time: Estimates for the U.S. Population, 2008-2009
• National Center for Education Statistics – Beginning Subbaccalaureate Students’ Labor Market Experiences: Six Years Later in 2009
• National Center for Education Statistics – What Do Students Pay for College?
• National Center for Health Statistics – Three Decades of Twin Births in the United States, 1980-2009

Calls for Comment

APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections.  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

• Annual Services Report (March 19, 2012)

Institute of Education Sciences

• Schools and Staffing Survey Teacher Status Update 2012 for Teacher Follow-up Survey (February 23, 2012)
• Quick Response Information System 2012-2015 System Clearance (March 23, 2012)

Federal Transit Administration

• 49 U.S.C. 5335(a) and (b) National Transit Database (February 23, 2012)

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January 26, 2012

IPUMS Research Award 2011: Call for Nominations and Submissions

This is the fourth annual award competition for research using the IPUMS microdata collection. Papers or publications submitted should utilize IPUMS-USA, CPS, IPUMS-International, or NAPP to study social, economic, and/or demographic processes.
 
Cash prizes will be awarded for:

• Best published work
• Best work by a graduate student, published or unpublished.

Deadline for nomination or submission: February 15, 2012

More information available here.

Workshop/Training:
Summer Research Training Institute: Single-Case Intervention Research Design and Analysis

June 25-29, 2012

University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI

The National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education announces a Summer Research Training Institute on Single-Case Intervention Research Design and Analysis.  The purpose of the Training Institute is to increase the national capacity of education researchers to conduct methodologically rigorous single-case intervention studies.

Additional conference information is available here.
 

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