The National Program Office for Public Health Law Research launched LawAtlas.org in October 2012. This webinar will look at two unique datasets constructed using the LawAtlas Workbench system, and will demonstrate the complexity and value of systematically collecting and coding statutes, regulations and case law. Sarah Happy, JD will present “Wages and Health,” a dataset of state and federal minimum wage laws from a 30-year period that examines the role of minimum wage rates as a social determinant of health. Steve Latham, JD, PhD will share “Criminalization of HIV Transmission and Exposure,” a dataset that compiles data from HIV/AIDS-specific criminal statutes and reported cases that use the defendant’s HIV status as an element of crime as a reason to elevate or enhance a charge or as a factor in justifying enhanced sentencing.
Introduction:
Joan Naymark, JG Naymark Demographics Moderator:
Damika Webb, JD, Legal Analyst and LawAtlas Manager, Public Health Law Research Presenters:
Sarah Happy, JD, Legal Analyst, Public Health Law Research Steve Latham, JD, PhD, Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
News
Census Bureau Releases New Extraction Tool for Local Employment Dynamics Data
The U.S. Census Bureau has released a beta version of a tool that gives data users the ability to access all 30 Local Employment Dynamics Quarterly Workforce Indicators, including measures of employment, turnover, hiring, job creation, job destruction and average monthly earnings. Researchers and policy-makers often use the Quarterly Workforce Indicators to study demographic and longitudinal trends in the nation’s changing labor force. Learn more here.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Announces “SaferCar” App
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its “SaferCar” app for iPhones, iPad, and iPod Touch devices. This new app puts the power of NHTSA’s tremendous volume of vehicle safety data, including real-time vehicle safety information from NHTSA’s SaferCar.gov site, at the fingertips of American consumers. NHTSA’s SaferCar app allows users to search its 5-Star Safety Ratings for vehicles by make and model, locate car seat installation help, file a vehicle safety complaint, find recall information, and subscribe to automatic notices about vehicle recalls. Read more here.
CE Introduces New Midyear Data Tables and New Format
The most recent combined expenditure, share, and standard error data tables cover average expenditures made in July 2011 through June 2012. These tables are the first midyear release of Consumer Expenditure (CE) data. They cover expenditures made in the second half of 2011 and the first half of 2012. Expenditures from the second half of 2011 were previously included in the annual 2011 tables released in September 2012, but the expenditures from the first half of 2012 are new and have not been published before. These tables are in a new format which combines information from three previous tables into one table. Expenditure means, expenditure shares, and standard errors (SE) and coefficients of variation (CV%) are now on the same table. Learn more here.
Calling all Innovators: Demo @ the Next Health Datapalooza
If your company has developed an application, service, or sensor fueled by health data, applicants could be featured at the fourth annual Health Datapalooza (HDP IV) on June 3 – 4, 2013, by applying by April 5, 2013. The Health Datapalooza is the biggest meeting of health data professionals, developers, entrepreneurs, government officials, venture capitalists, and investors in the Nation. Any developer or company that completes the application process will receive a discount code that reduces the cost of registration to attend. Learn more here.
DOT Secretary’s Update: Research, Technology, and Data Drive America’s Transportation System
Without good data, we wouldn’t be able to plan as effectively for the future or identify trends as they first start emerging. That’s exactly what was on Deputy Research and Innovative Technology Administrator Greg Winfree’s mind when he addressed the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Forum last week. As the Deputy Administrator noted, committing to an approach that leverages research, technology, and data to address key transportation issues and guide public policy just makes sense. Today, innovations such as vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, GPS, and remote-sensing can advance safety and improve performance with fewer dollars and better results. Read more here.
Data Quality Campaign Fact Sheet: Preparing Students for Jobs
Nearly every high-priority item in national, federal, state, and local discussions about education—and policy proposals across the political spectrum—requires high-quality longitudinal data to inform its design, implementation, and evaluation. This factsheet shares DQC’s analysis of what Data for Action 2012 tells us about states’ data capacity related to preparing students for jobs. Read more here.
Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we’ll include it here.
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
Construction Progress Reporting Surveys (April 27, 2013)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Health Care Surveys (May 27, 2013)
School Dismissal Monitoring System (April 27, 2013)
Federal Student Aid, Department of Education
National Student Loan Data System (April 26, 2013)
General Services Administration
Open Government Citizen Engagement Ratings, Rankings, and Flagging (May 24, 2013)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
2013 Census of Aquaculture (May 24, 2013)
Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey (May 24, 2013)
National Center for Education Statistics
School Attendance Boundary Survey 2013–2015 (April 22, 2013)
Surface Transportation Board, Department of Transportation
System Diagram Maps (April 19, 2013)
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