Becky Sweger joins us from the National Priorities Project, a national non-profit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to making complex federal budget information transparent and accessible. She’ll give us an “in-the-weeds” look at the realities of using open government data, especially for organizations who are used to getting data prepared and packaged by government agencies. She’ll focus on her experience using the Consolidated Federal Funds report (packaged data) which was replaced by USASpending.gov (open data).
This webinar will review the trade-offs involved when switching from designed data prepared by the Census Bureau to “open” spending or administrative data.
Introduction: Joan Naymark, APDU Moderator: Virginia Carlson, APDU Presenter: Becky Sweger, Director of Data & Technology, National Priorities Project
News
BLS Releases New 2010 Standard Occupational Classification System
Computer network support specialists, with employment of 167,980 in May 2012, and nurse practitioners, with employment of 105,780, were 2 of the largest new occupations in the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. These are 2 of 24 newly defined detailed occupations. The data are from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program, which provides employment and wage estimates by area and by industry for wage and salary workers in 22 major occupational groups and 821 detailed occupations. In addition, national employment and wage estimates for 94 minor occupational groups and 458 broad occupations are available for the first time. Read more here.
Computerworld Honors Census Bureau for Open Data API
Computerworld has named the U.S. Census Bureau as a 2013 Honors Laureate for the development of its open data API, an application programming interface that allows developers to take data sets and reuse them to create online and mobile apps. The magazine recognizes the Census Bureau for its “visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change.” Read more here.
NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database updated on SDS and SSG
National Bureau of Economic Research and the U.S. Census Bureau recently released an updated version of the NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database. The database is of particular utility to users of the SynLBD. Read more here.
Census Bureau Requests for Nominations
The Secretary of Commerce is requesting nominations of individuals to the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee. More information available 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
2013 Company Organization Survey (May 28, 2013)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Voluntary Environmental Assessment Information System (May 3, 2013)
Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice
National Drug Threat Survey (June 3, 2013)
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