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Commerce Data Advisory Council
The Economics and Statistics Administration issued a notice of establishment of the Commerce Data Advisory Council (CDAC) and solicitation of nominations for membership.
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Erosion of Federal Statistical Agencies Puts Policy at Risk
Robert M. Groves and Kenneth Prewitt argue in Roll Call that ?[For] statistical data to be perceived as sound and independent, its producing agencies must completely control the data?s collection, analysis, and publication, including control over its planning, budget, press releases, and information technology.?
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Call for Abstracts for Data Users Conference
The American Community Survey Data Users Group is inviting abstracts on any topic relating to ACS data issues and applications, and are especially interested in new and innovative uses of ACS data, and ACS applications that inform policy and business decisions.
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Data Researchers React to Proposed ACS Changes
The Census Bureau has proposed a set of cuts to the American Community Survey (ACS) which would eliminate all of the questions related to marital history and undergraduate degree field.
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New Resource on Health Education Degree Programs
PublicHealthOnline.org has created an in-depth guide for students and young professionals looking for reliable, expert-driven information on health education, a key specialization in the field of public health. This no-cost resource dissects careers in health education, explores degree pathways at multiple academic levels, and provides a search tool to help future students identify accredited programs from some of today’s best not-for-profit colleges and universities.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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New BEA Data Helps Entrepreneurs
New BEA data on consumer spending broken out by state ? released in August ? provide startups and entrepreneurs with crucial insight into consumer behavior at the state level.
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New LEHD Data Set
This is a beta release from the U.S. Census Bureau of new national statistics on worker reallocation in the United States constructed from the LEHD data. The official release of the data will occur in early 2015. This new data distinguishes hires and separations associated with job change from hires from and separations to nonemployment.
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Visualization of the Week
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Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?
The New York Times? Upshot lookied at six data points for each county in the United States: education (percentage of residents with at least a bachelor?s degree), median household income, unemployment rate, disability rate, life expectancy and obesity. They then averaged each county?s relative rank in these categories to create an overall ranking.
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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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Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Indian Child Welfare Quarterly and Annual Report (December 19, 2014)
Geological Survey
- ISO Geospatial Metadata Editors Registry (December 15, 2014)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
- Field Crops Objective Yield (January 16, 2015)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- U.S. Caribbean Commercial Fishermen Census (January 20, 2015)
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We’re taking a week off!
There will not be an APDU Weekly next week as we take a day to celebrate Thanksgiving. We would like to wish all our members a very Happy Thanksgiving!
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