U.S. Census Bureau Releases New ACS Website The U.S. Census Bureau’s newly designed website for the American Community Survey (ACS) is now available. They have transitioned from the preview version to the new live website that has a look and feel consistent with census.gov, allowing users to quickly find information thanks to an easy to understand hierarchical structure.
Census Considers New Approach to Asking About Race The Census Bureau is experimenting with new ways to ask Americans about their race or origin in the 2020 census ? including not using the words ?race? or ?origin? at all. Instead, the questionnaire may tell people to check the ?categories? that describe them.
New Website Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the NLS This site was created at the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) at Ohio State University to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS). The NLS is a program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. CHRR has conducted the NLS since the program began in 1965, in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau (from 1965 to 2003) and NORC at the University of Chicago (from 1978 to the present).
Introducing the Civic Tech and Data Collaborative Living Cities, Code for America and the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership announced today the selection of Boston and St. Louis to participate in the Civic Tech and Data Collaborative, a new initiative to harness the power of civic data and technology to improve the lives of low-income people. Over the next two years, teams of civic technologists, data practitioners and government officials in each city will develop data and technology solutions to address a pressing problem in their city.
New & Updated Data Sources
An Overview of County Administration: Appointed County Administrators The National Association of Counties (NACo) released an analysis of county administrators around the country, showing that many county governments turn to county administrators to help deliver core services like health care, criminal justice, public infrastructure and economic development. More than four out of 10 county governments appoint county administrators to implement board policies, prepare annual budgets and run daily operations that serve millions of residents. See the data layers in their interactive map County Explorer, the analysis and individualized state profiles here.
Visualization of the Week
150 Years of Climate Predictions The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has published a massive dataset of climate data that indicates how temperature and rainfall patterns could change through the year 2100. The dataset provides daily estimates of precipitation and temperature ranges for every day from 1950 to 2100 down to a 15.5-mile resolution, which could be used to conduct comprehensive climate risk assessments for individual cities. NASA published the 11-terabyte dataset on NASA Earth Exchange, a platform designed in partnership with Amazon Web Services to encourage to scientific knowledge sharing and collaboration.
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Calls for Comment
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):
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Requirements Survey (July 22, 2015)
Census Bureau
American Community Survey (ACS) Methods Panel Tests (July 24, 2015)
Department of Agriculture
Census of Agriculture Content Test (July 24, 2015)
Department of Education
NPEFS 2015-2017: Common Core of Data (CCD) National Public Education Financial Survey (August 21, 2015)
School Climate Surveys (SCLS) Benchmark Study 2016 (August 24, 2015)
U.S. Geological Survey
National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (July 20, 2015)
June 25, 2015
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