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Federal Government Spending: Less Transparency in a World of Open Data

May 1, 2013
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

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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

 

Census Bureau Request For Nominations

Nominations for the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations are due by May 13, 2013.  The Census Bureau is requesting nominations of individuals, both experts and organizational representatives, to the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations.  The Census Bureau will consider nominations received in response to this notice, as well as from other sources.  Learn more here.
 

 

Unauthorized Immigrants: How Pew Research Counts Them and What We Know About Them

As a broad new immigration proposal crafted by a bipartisan group of senators has taken shape — with some of the most sweeping changes in a quarter-century — one statistic has been at center stage: the estimate that there are currently 11.1 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. This is the group for whom proposed legislation would provide a path to citizenship for most.  How Pew Research calculates this number is the product of decades of work by Jeffrey S. Passel, a senior demographer, along with former colleagues at the U.S. Census Bureau and the Urban Institute.  Read more here.
 

 

DOE Vehicle Data Challenge Fuels Innovation

Last week, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the winners of the Apps for Vehicles Challenge.  The competition challenged developers and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how the open data available about most vehicles can be used to improve vehicle safety, fuel efficiency, and comfort.  Many people don’t think about data when they are filling up their gas tanks.  But the majority of American cars have onboard data-systems that can help people in new and undiscovered ways.  That’s why the Energy Department launched the Apps for Vehicles Challenge during the first-ever Energy Datapalooza last year—to spur innovators to create new technologies that improve safety and fuel efficiency.  Read more here.
 

 

Housing Affordability Data System Updated for 2011

The Housing Affordability Data System (HADS) is a set of files derived from the American Housing Survey (AHS).  This system categorizes housing units by affordability and households by income, with respect to the Adjusted Median Income, Fair Market Rent (FMR), and poverty income.  It also includes housing cost burden for owner and renter households.  These files give the community of housing analysts a consistent set of affordability measures.  The files contain the AHS CONTROL variable, and so they can be linked to the regular AHS public use files.  The HADS file based on the 2011 AHS is now available for download here, in both SAS and ASCII formats.
 

 

ACE Tool Helps U.S. Businesses Fully Assess the Advantages of Manufacturing and Sourcing in America

Increasingly we hear that U.S. companies that previously took their operations or supply chains overseas are now reshoring or insourcing –  bringing operations and supply chains back home to America.  To help continue that momentum, the Department of Commerce published a new tool to help inform manufacturing firms’ location decisions.  The Assess Costs Everywhere (ACE) tool outlines the wide range of costs and risks associated with offshore production, and provides links to important public and private resources, so that firms can more accurately assess the total cost of operating overseas.  ACE also shares case studies of firms that reversed their decisions to locate offshore once the full range of costs became clear.  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):

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS

  • Feasibility of Alternative Models for Collecting New Data on Physicians and Their Practices (June 14, 2013)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • Veterans Supplement to the Current Population Survey (May 17, 2013)    

Census Bureau

  • American Community Survey (May 16, 2013)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (May 17, 2013)

National Institutes of Health

  • Topic-based Studies for the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study (June 17, 2013)

 

 

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April 18, 2013