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Request for Input on Key ACS Issues and Data User Needs
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and Sabre Systems created a brief survey to collect input from ACS Data Users Group members regarding key ACS issues and data user needs. Results from this survey will be presented in a Plenary Session on May 13 at the upcoming 2015 ACS Data Users Conference. This survey provides a unique opportunity for Data Users Group members to share collective feedback about ACS data issues and user needs with Census Bureau staff and other conference attendees. Please respond by April 20, 2015.
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BLS Blog Post on National Longitudinal Surveys
It?s especially timely to talk about these surveys for two reasons: 1) BLS published a news release this week with the latest data from one of the surveys, and 2) the program is one of the important legacies of former BLS Commissioner Janet Norwood, who passed away recently. The National Longitudinal Surveys stand out because they are designed to answer key long-term questions about people?s paths through life.
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Restoring Lost Data
It can be disheartening to learn that something precious, such as a one-of-a-kind family photo, has disappeared from a scratched or broken CD or DVD. It also can become serious, dangerous and potentially costly if it happens to a disc containing criminal forensic evidence, corporate records or scientific data. But there may be a way in the future to bring the material back.
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The Data Economy is a Rich Source of High-Paying Jobs
Recently, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a report that found data is fueling a rapid growth in high-paying, high-skilled jobs in the public and private sector and transforming the United States? occupational landscape.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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R&D Recognized as Investment in U.S. GDP Statistics
Expenditures for research and development are now capitalized?incorporated as investment?in the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) and other national income and product accounts (NIPAs) produced and published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). R&D investment is presented in the NIPAs in a new asset category called “intellectual property products,” or intangible assets, along with software and entertainment, literary, and artistic originals.
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Visualization of the Week
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Explore the London Blitz
More than 30,000 bombs fell on London between September 7, 1940 and May 10, 1941, completely decimating parts of the city and killing tens of thousands of civilians. Now thanks to Bomb Sight, we can see where those bombs fell.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NON-PROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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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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Census Bureau
- American Community Survey (ACS) Methods Panel Envelope Mandatory Messaging Test (April 22, 2015)
- Geographic Partnership Programs (June 8, 2015)
Bureau of Justice Statistics
- 2015 Police Public Contact Survey (May 4, 2015)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Safety and Health Statistics Cooperative Agreement Application Package (May 4, 2015)
- Labor Market Information Cooperative Agreement (May 7, 2015)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households (May 6, 2015)
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