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The Nation’s Report Card: Vocabulary Results from the 2009 and 2011 NAEP Reading Assessments
The Nation’s Report Card: Vocabulary Results from the 2009 and 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Reading Assessments presents results for student performance on the systematic measure of vocabulary included in the 2009 and 2011 NAEP reading assessments. While previous NAEP assessments had included some vocabulary questions, the new framework for the 2009 assessment provided criteria for developing vocabulary questions as well as prescribing the number of questions to be included in each comprehension section of the assessment. View the full report here.
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Census Bureau’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators New Data
This new Census brief draws on newly available data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Workforce Indicators, which includes new information on firm age and size from the Business Dynamics Statistics microdata. While the importance of young businesses to job creation and productivity growth is increasingly well understood, relatively little is known about the characteristics of the jobs generated by startups. This report uses newly created data from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators to shed light on characteristics of jobs at young businesses – focusing on hiring, turnover and wages at young firms. Read the report here.
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GEMEnA Develops National Adult Training and Education Survey (NATES) Questionnaire
This NATES questionnaire will be used in a pilot test of the mail-out methodology to be conducted 2013. The NATES pilot study will examine response rates at both the unit and item level and includes a nonresponse bias study based on in-person interviews with a sample of nonrespondents. On behalf of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the Census Bureau is conducting the data collection, surveying a sample of adults ages 16 to 65 in approximately 10,000 households. If response rates on the NATES pilot test are acceptable (and pending availability of funds), NCES could field a production NATES in the near future. Learn more here.
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NCSER Releases Video Training Modules for PEELS Users
The National Center for Special Education Research has released video training modules for the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS). The PEELS data training modules are intended to be a resource to researchers who would like to use the PEELS dataset to conduct research addressing students with disabilities. View videos here.
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Notable Data Publications
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Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
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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):
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Census Bureau
- Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement (January 2, 2013)
- 2013 Current Population Survey Annual Social & Economic Supplement Content Test (January 2, 2013)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- School Dismissal Monitoring System (February 4, 2013)
Employment and Training Administration
- Distribution of Characteristics of the Insured Unemployed (December 31, 2012)
National Agricultural Statistics Service
- Residue and Biomass Field Survey (January 3, 2013)
Office of the Chief Information Officer, HUD
- Survey of New Manufactured (Mobile) Home Placements (January 2, 2013)
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