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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Spotlights Mortgage Trends With New Online Tool
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) launched an online tool to provide consumers with easy access to public mortgage information collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The tool enables greater transparency by helping inform people of trends in their local mortgage markets. The CFPB tool on the number of mortgage applications and originations, in addition to loan purposes and loan types for 2010 through 2012. It looks specifically at first-lien, owner-occupied, one- to four- family and manufactured homes. Using the tool, the public can see nationwide summaries or they can choose interactive features that allow them to isolate the information for metropolitan areas. The public can easily explore millions of data points with these user-friendly graphs and charts. Read more here.
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U.S. Health Map
With Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation‘s interactive map, you can explore health trends in the United States at the county level for both sexes in:
- Life expectancy between 1985 and 2010
- Hypertension in 2001 and 2009
- Obesity from 2001 to 2011
- Physical activity from 2001 to 2011
Learn more here.
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New Data in O*NET Websites
The 18.0 database is now incorporated within My Next Move, Mi Próximo Paso, My Next Move for Veterans, and O*NET OnLine. Comprehensive data is available for 921 O*NET-SOC occupations. Specifically, the 18.0 database updated 105 O*NET-SOCs. The database also includes new and updated Interests data for 83 occupations. Read more here.
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Why We Need Federal Statistical Data for States and Counties
The United States is blessed with exemplary federal data provision about local areas, such as counties, that we view as second to none. The data about our towns, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and states have both augmented private sector productivity and produced more effective and accountable government. These data programs are now threatened by budget cuts to reduce the budget deficit, most immediately by the sequester process. Read more here.
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HIV/AIDS Database Update
This compilation of data from 219 countries and areas on the prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS cases and deaths is updated to include new data for more than 100 countries. Major updates include new data for China, Ghana, Ethiopia, India and Cameroon. The database focuses on HIV/AIDS surveillance data for countries and areas with at least 5,000 population, with the exception of Northern America (including the United States) and U.S. territories. Public health surveillance involves the collection, analysis and use of data to provide public health prevention resources where needed. Read more here.
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UK Census Will Be Replaced by Annual Survey If ONS Proposal Is Approved
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is proposing that the once-a-decade census, which began in 1801, be replaced by a more fluid questionnaire. This would survey smaller samples of the population every year, in part to avoid statistical surprises such as the unexpectedly big population growth uncovered by the 2011 census. Under the proposal – one of two ideas mooted after the last full census in 2011 – a changing group of 4% of the population of England and Wales would complete census questionnaires every 12 months, with their answers added to existing national data, such as employment and health records, to create an accurate statistical snapshot. Read more here.
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Census Bureau’s Application Programming Interface and My Congressional District Updated with 2012 American Community Survey Statistics
The Census Bureau has updated both the application programming interface and My Congressional District data tools with the 2012 American Community Survey statistics. The API, which allows developers to create custom apps with Census Bureau data, now includes 2012 American Community Survey data profiles across geographies, including congressional districts.
The My Congressional District application, released earlier this summer, gives users the ability to embed a selected 113th congressional district on a user’s own Web page.
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Face to Face On the Value of Government Data
Under Secretary Mark Doms visited with Census Atlanta Regional Director George Grandy, Jr. and Census Atlanta Program Coordinator Henry Rodriguez during a trip to meet with Census business and community partners to discuss data collection, data accessibility and the value of government data. Read more here.
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How Bad Data Warped Everything We Thought We Knew About the Jobs Recovery
The real legacy of the Lehman collapse wasn’t an economic meltdown. (That would have happened anyway.) It was three years of wrong information about the economy. Read more 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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Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we’ll include it here.
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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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Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Quarterly Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad– Transactions of U.S. Reporter with Foreign Affiliate (October 23, 2013)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Health Interview Survey (November 25, 2013)
National Center for Education Statistics
- Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class of 2010- 11 (ECLS-K:2011) Spring Third-Grade National Collection, Fourth-Grade Recruitment, and Fifth-Grade Tracking (October 24, 2013)
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