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Census Bureau Retains ACS Questions
After receiving 1,700 public comments that highlighted important uses of data from the ACS marital history and field of undergraduate degree questions, the Census Bureau is proposing to retain those questions on the survey. (The question on medical office use of building space is still being cut.) The Census Bureau will continue to research options for reducing ACS respondent burden, including whether these and all questions can be asked less frequently (e.g. every two or three years) or of a subsample of the ACS sample, or if administrative records could replace any of the questions (most notably the housing questions). This continued research is an important point to make to congressional offices who are worried about respondent burden.
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House COMPETES Bill Targets Social Science
On April 15, House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith introduced the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806). This is legislation to reauthorize the National Science Foundation (NSF). While there are some noticeable changes from the bill that the scientific community rallied against last year (known as the FIRST Act), the new bill, authored by Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, continues to challenge the value of social and behavioral science research and restricts NSF’s ability to drive its own research agenda.
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Census Bureau Infographic: Why We Ask
?Why We Ask,? a new U.S. Census Bureau infographic in the Measuring America series, explains the important role the American Community Survey plays in the future of America?s planning needs.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Getting Your Trade Data Faster
In July 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau will introduce the Advance Report: U.S. International Trade in Goods. The new Advance Report will contain international goods trade data for five export and import end-use categories, in addition to totals.
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Version 4.2 Onthemap for Emergency Management
The Census Bureau released version 4.2 on OnTheMap for Emergency Management. OnTheMap for Emergency Management provides real-time access to a range of detailed U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in areas being affected by hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas. Version 4.2 improvements include updated the ACS data to the 2009-2013 5-year estimates.
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Visualization of the Week
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Visualizing Federal Information Technology Performance
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has created a series of data visualizations to accompany the release of federal agency information technology (IT) performance metrics for the first quarter of 2015. The metrics assess how well agencies meet federal chief information officer Tony Scott?s core objectives of driving value in IT investments, ensuring high quality digital services, and protecting federal assets and information. OMB has made these metrics publicly available for the first time to introduce more transparency into federal IT spending, and it eventually plans to expand the metrics and visualizations to illustrate agency progress in new ways.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
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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Census Bureau
- American Community Survey (May 28, 2015)
- Business Research & Development and Innovation Survey (May 22, 2015)
- National Survey of Children’s Health (May 28, 2015)
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