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Chairman of House Funding Panel Shows Concern on ACS
APDU Board Member Steve Pearson evaluates an exchange between new Chairman John Culberson of the House Funding Panel for Commerce, Justice, and Science and Secretary Pritzer about the American Community Survey (ACS) and the costs of the 2020 decennial census. This post also includes AMSTAT blog entries on the ACS funding situation, along with a link to commentary from George Will.
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BLS Commissioner: Volunteering in the United States
A new blog series from the BLS Commissioner, ?Why This Counts,? will explain why BLS conduct their surveys and how people can use the data at work and home. This post explains that volunteering data can be used to better understand civic engagement.
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Call for Presenters: CE Microdata Users’ Workshop
Have you used the publicuse microdata files from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) in research you have conducted? If so, BLS would like to invite you to present your work at the upcoming 10th annual CE Microdata Users? Workshop, to be held July 15-17, 2015, following the half-day CE Survey Methods Symposium on July 14.
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President?s 2016 Budget Would Expand Labor Market Data
President Obama has presented his fiscal year 2016 budget request to Congress. That budget proposes $632.7 million in funding for BLS, an increase of $40.5 million over our fiscal year 2015 funding. The 2016 budget proposes new funding to help BLS meet some important data needs.
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Commerce Data Advisory Committee Members Announced
March 4 marked the announcement of the naming of members to Commerce Department?s new Data Advisory Committee (CDAC). The 19 leaders they have selected will help guide the Department in revolutionizing their approach toward data optimization and usability.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing the Decline of Labor Unions
Quoctrung Bui of National Public Radio has created a time lapse visualization illustrating the decline of union membership in the United States since 1964. Each state is color coded based on percentage of its workforce belonging to a union. The data is pulled from the U.S. Census? Current Population Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics? Directory of National Unions and Employee Associations.
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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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Department of Education
- Middle Grades Longitudinal Study of 2016-2017 (MGLS:2017) Recruitment for Item Validation and Operational Field Tests (April 27, 2015)
- 2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) Full-Scale Data Collection (May 4, 2015)
Department of Labor
- Survey of Working Women (April 27, 2015)
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Public Data University 101 Webinar:
Introduction to Data Sets:
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Insights into HUD USER
April 15, 2015
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
More information
Pricing:
APDU Members, C2ER Members, LMI Institute Member States & Affiliate Members: FREE
Non-Members: $50
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Public Data University 101 Webinar:
Introduction to Data Sets: The National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
May 20, 2015
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST
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