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Political Polarization & Media Habits
Election season is in full swing, and the electorate has the spotlight shining brightly upon them. The Pew Research Center released a new report on the media habits of members of all ideological stripes.
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Census Releases Additional 2011-2013 ACS Statistics
The U.S. Census Bureau released the second of its annual series of data sets from the American Community Survey (ACS), this one combining the three years of data collected between 2011 and 2013. The statistics paint a detailed portrait of the nation, all states, and the District of Columbia, all congressional districts and all other geographic areas with populations of 20,000 or more.
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Advocating the Transformative Power of Commerce Data
Under Secretary Mark Doms participated in a high level data discussion at the Strata+Hadoop World Conference in New York City. Before an audience of 500 leading technologists and data programmers, Under Secretary Doms talked with host Jennifer van der Meer, Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and CEO of Reason Street, to explore the Department of Commerce’s strategic data plan and Doms’ efforts to move the federal statistical system into the era of big data.
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New DC Financial Data Tool on School Spending
Recently the Thomas B. Fordham Institute released a new tool demonstrating the actual expenditures of every school in Washington, DC, and the surrounding areas of Northern Virginia and Maryland.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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American Housing Survey: 2013 Detailed Tables
The first findings from the 2013 American Housing Survey are now available in the form of dozens of detailed tables and a microdata file. Topics new to the American Housing Survey this year are disaster planning and emergency preparedness, public transportation, household involvement in neighborhood and community activities, and the prevalence of ?doubled-up? households, such as those with an adult child living at home.
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Improvements to BLS Data-Retrieval Tools
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has made available a new option that allows data users to choose whether to include annual averages when they use BLS data-retrieval tools.
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Visualization of the Week
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NON-PROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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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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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS
- Care Coordination Quality Measure for Patients in the Primary Care Setting (November 17, 2014)
Department of Education
- 2015-16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16) Field Test Student Data Collection (December 15, 2014)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Catcher Processor Socio-Cultural Study (December 22, 2014)
- Contingent Valuation Surveys To Assess Value of Selected Hurricane Sandy Restoration Efforts in New York and New Jersey (December 22, 2014)
- Non-Economic Valuation of Subsistence Salmon in Alaska (December 22, 2014)
- West Coast Groundfish Trawl Economic Data Collection (December 22, 2014)
Treasury Department
- Survey of U.S. Ownership of Foreign Securities (November 17, 2014)
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