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2013 APDU Virtual

Business Meeting Rescheduled

January 21, 2014
  2 – 3 PM EST

APDU’s 2013 Annual Business meeting will take place by webinar, on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, at 2 pm EST.  The meeting should run for approximately 30 minutes and will allow for audience Q & A following presentations and reports.  NOTE: This is a new day and time, rescheduled from the Dec 12 date.

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News

The United States Released its Second Open Government National Action Plan
The Obama Administration released the second U.S. Open Government National Action Plan, announcing 23 new or expanded open-government commitments that will advance these efforts even further.

Open Data Round Up
On May 9, 2013, President Obama signed an Executive Order, “Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information.”  While there is still much more work to do, the Administration is excited to see the great progress being made by Federal agencies to unleash the power of open data.

Open for Business Agenda
U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker outlined a bold new policy agenda focused on U.S. trade and investment, innovation, and data.  Among the new initiatives Secretary Pritzker announced are public-private partnerships that enable businesses and communities to make better use of government data.

Agencies Collected Data on Americans’ Cellphone Use in Thousands of ‘Tower Dumps’
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies conducting criminal investigations collected data on cellphone activity thousands of times last year, with each request to a phone company yielding hundreds or thousands of phone numbers of innocent Americans along with those of potential suspects.

Partners Join CREW in Support of the DATA Act
More than twenty groups joined the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in support of the DATA Act’s efforts to make more government spending information open and public.

New & Updated Data Sources

Greening References Updated
The Greening of the World of Work: O*NET Project’s Book of References update added additional green references to those compiled from the initial research report on the green economy.  Ongoing green activities, such as data collection on occupational and worker requirements for green occupations, and continuous green economy research, contributed to this update.  Download this document from the Reports and Documents section.

Sunlight Foundation Upgrades OpenCongress.org
OpenCongress, a project launched six years ago by the Participatory Politics Foundation, is now a part of Sunlight Foundation’s many online resources.  Sunlight developers have re-launched the platform with “refreshed code” and will continue to improve data quality in the legislative information tool.

Visualization of the Week

APDU member the Urban Institute released an in-depth data tool this week which examines the how Washington DC has changed over the course of one decade. Using decennial census data, the cities recent evolution in population density, age and racial diversity, and future challenges are laid out with a series of charts and interactive maps.

Notable Data Publications

GOVERNMENT

• Bureau of Justice Stattistics – Victims of Identity Theft: 2012
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – Work Experience of the Population: 2012
• Census Bureau – Age and (Gender) Table Packages and Race and Hispanic Origin Table Packages: 2012
• Census Bureau – Infographic: More American Households Rely on Government Benefit Programs
• Census Bureau – Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates: 2012
• Department of Transportation – Bureau of Transportation Statistics – Commodity Flow Survey Preliminary Data Tables 2012
• Department of Transportation – Bureau of Transportation Statistics – North American Transportation Statistics, 2012
• National Center for Health Statistics – Newly Released Data From the Revised U.S. Birth Certificate: 2011
• National Center for Health Statistics – Pregnancy Rates for U.S. Women Continue to Drop
• National Center for Health Statistics – Trends in Insurance Coverage and Source of Private Coverage Among Young Adults Aged 19-25: United States, 2008-2012
• National Science Foundation – Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities: 2012 Data Tables
• U.S. Congressional Research Service – Poverty in the United States: 2012
• U.S. Government Accountability Office – Education Research: Further Improvements Needed to Ensure Relevance and Assess Dissemination Efforts
• White House – Council of Economics Advisors – Trends in Health Care Cost Growth and the Role of the Affordable Care Act

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

• Batelle – 2014 Global R&D Funding Forecast
• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean – Social Panorama of Latin America 2013
• Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific – Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2013
• National Association of Counties – Spotlight on Large Urban Counties: Leadership in Action
• National Association of State Budget Officers – Fiscal Survey of States, Fall 2013
• Pew Research Center – On Pay Gap, Millennial Women Near Parity – For Now

MEDIA

• Bloomberg – Bloomberg Best (and Worst)
• Governing – Average Wages by State

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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

• Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database (February 4, 2014)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

• National Incident-Based Reporting System (February 4, 2014)

Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS

• Questionnaire and Data Collection Testing, Evaluation, and Research for the Health Resources and Services Administration (February 11, 2014)