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APDU has learned that the Senate and House are developing appropriations proposals that must ready in the next few weeks. To that end, APDU will be coordinating outreach to both committees, as well as to key individual members of each, calling on the House and Senate to increase the total Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) budget request to $631.4 million.
Watch the APDU Blog (and your inbox) for opportunties to advocate on behalf of BLS.
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Bring back our national statistics
By cutting the Import-Export Pricing Data data reports, the BLS will hobble the ability for both our government and our exporters to have the information they need to innovate and compete in a changing global marketplace.
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From ‘Lab to Market’
One key element of the President’s Management Agenda is to accelerate the transfer of Federally funded research from the laboratory to the commercial marketplace – a “Lab-to-Market” agenda.
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Thompson: Investing now will save taxpayer dollars later
On his Director’s Blog, U.S. Census Director John H. Thompson outlines the agency’s budget priorities as part of the “Open for Business” agenda. Among other priorities, funding allows continuation of a “robust 2020 Census Research and Testing Program.”
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The problem with data journalism
Economist Allison Schrager laments the downsides of journalism covering research, including those who exhibit a false sense of authority, since data analysis is inherently prone to bias. “Even data-backed journalism is opinion journalism.”
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The pilot phase of the new site, which is a subset of the U.S. government’s open-data publishing website Data.gov, is focused on coastal flooding, sea level rise, and their consequences. Over 80 datasets for weather, census, flood hazards, and other areas are available from the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA, and the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Disability and health insurance reform
As health insurance becomes available outside of the employment relationship as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the cost of applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) will decline for many people with employer-sponsored health insurance. At the same time, the value of SSDI and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) participation will decline for individuals who otherwise lacked access to health insurance. This paper studies the 2006 Massachusetts health insurance reform to estimate the potential effects of the ACA on SSDI and SSI applications.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Agriculture statistical tables no longer updated
The statistical indicator tables formerly provided in Agricultural Outlook magazine are no longer being updated. The data provided in most of those tables are maintained online elsewhere on the ERS website or by the primary data providers.
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Why does BLS provide both the CPI-W and CPI-U?
This Beyond the Numbers article briefly looks at the history and evolution of the CPI, explains the reasoning behind the creation of two main indexes, and describes the debate surrounding this development.
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Visualization of the Week
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Population Bracketology
Test your knowledge of population data! Start by choosing your geographic level: metro areas or states. Click on the name in each match-up that you think has the larger population. Green shows a correct answer, red indicates an incorrect answer.
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Notable Data Publications
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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 Justice Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Department of Education
National Agriculture Statistics Service, USDA
National Transportation Safety Board
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