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APDU Board of Directors Call for Nominations

The APDU Nominations Committee has announced three candidates for 2 at-large board member seats:

  • Steve Pierson, Director of Science Policy, American Statistical Association
  • Susan Ockert, Owner, SO Consulting
  • Cliff Cook, Planning Information Manager, City of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Statements by these candidates will be on the APDU website within a few days. Any APDU member (or representative of a member organization) can petition to run for one of the above positions. Petitioning must be received by November 26, 2013. Voting period opens Nov 27.

Visit this page for more information on how to submit a candidate.

News

 

Impact of Sequestration and Reduced FY 2013 Funding Levels on Local Area Personal Income
The impact of sequestration and reduced FY 2013 funding levels for the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) have required reductions in the Bureau’s local area personal income (LAPI) program.


Secretary Pritzker Outlines Bold Policy Agenda Focused on U.S. Trade and Investment, Innovation, and Data
Among the new initiatives U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced are a revitalized National Export Initiative, an enhanced and expanded program to attract foreign investment, a first-of-its-kind, Commerce effort to ensure skills training programs meet industry needs, and a focus on public-private partnerships that enable businesses and communities to make better use of government data.

 

House Passes Major Spending Transparency Bill
On a vote of 388-1, the House of Representatives adopted H.R. 2061, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), which will make federal spending data publically available and easily accessible, and will create more useful government-wide financial data standards.


Federal Agencies Adopt Open Data Model to Spur Innovation, Entrepreneurship
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a wide-ranging roundup of new and ongoing efforts to leverage availability of large, accessible data sets to spur innovation.

 

College Ratings System Can Thrive, Even Without Better Data
The U.S. Department of Education launched the first of a series of public comment sessions on the president’s proposed system to rate colleges and universities.


Political Questions about the Jobs Report
With the economy dominating the campaign for the White House last fall, did the government make the unemployment rate move lower and help President Obama’s re-election chances?

 

Parents Sue NY Over Student Data-Sharing System
A group of New York City public school parents filed a lawsuit Wednesday to block state education officials from sharing student information with the data-storage firm inBloom.

 

New & Updated Data Sources

 

New Data Point Highlights Changes in High School CTE Coursetaking
This NCES Data Point shows changes in high school students’ participation in career and technical education (CTE) between 1990 and 2009.


Census Bureau Announces Revised Calendar for Economic Programs
The U.S. Census Bureau announced revisions to its release calendar for the 2013 non-economic indicators that have been delayed because of the recent lapse in federal funding.

 

NCES Updates the State Education Reforms Website
New state-level data on open enrollment policies are now available on the State Education Reforms website.  The “State Support for School Choice and Other Options” section of the site was updated.

 

National Crosswalk Service Center Updates
The NCSC has updated the prototype population demographics table, adding new 3-year ACS estimates for 2010-12, and the Enhanced CPI tables containing 40+ market basket indexes for 45 geographic areas to include October 2012 data.

 

Visualization of the Week

 

SuperZips

The Washington Post has created an interactive map illustrating “SuperZips”, or those zip codes ranking highest on income and college education A Zip’s ranking is a number between 0 and 99 representing the average of its percentile ranks in college education and in income.  The 650 Zips with rankings of 95 and higher are called Super Zips.  The Post used data from the American Community Survey, the U.S. Census, and ESRI.
 

Notable Data Publications

 

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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

  • Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Health Plan Survey Comparative Database (December 18, 2013)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • Current Population Survey; Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility Supplement (December 18, 2013)