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BLS Letter of Support
Friends of Labor Statistics asks that Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) users directly contact your Senators and Representatives to help prevent BLS from having to cut its statistical programs.
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Congress Limiting Understanding of Economy
Confusion about today?s labor market, anxiety about the future of jobs, a rapidly evolving economy and so many other reasons make now exactly the wrong time to diminish the government?s ability to collect and construct labor market data. But that is exactly what is happening, and may continue to happen. Cutting funding for the Bureau of Labor Statistics would be penny wise and pound foolish.
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National Data on Police’s Use of Force Almost Useless
When the Justice Department surveyed police departments nationwide in 2013, officials included for the first time a series of questions about how often officers used force. But when the data was issued last month, without a public announcement, the figures turned out to be almost useless. Nearly all departments said they kept track of their shootings, but in accounting for all uses of force, the figures varied widely.
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Multi-State Cooperation Can Save Time and Money
Nevada recently launched the Nevada P-20 to Workforce Research Data System (NPWR), which links K-12, post-secondary, and employment data from participating state agencies to enable research and public reporting about education and the workforce. This partnership exemplifies how multi-state cooperation may enable more states to successfully use data to improve workforce outcomes.
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To Reduce Debt, Give Students More Information
Student loan debt is unlikely to go away anytime soon. What is important for now is that students and their families get better information about tuition costs and college outcomes so they can make more informed decisions, especially as the investments are so large.
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How to Clean Survey Data
As much as you?d like to dive directly into your data, the best data analysts know that garbage in garbage out will be the phrase of the day if time isn?t spent cleaning the data first. With that in mind, here are a few important steps you?ll need to take to clean your survey data.
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The Closing of the Canadian Mind
The New York Times examines the case of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has made a series of curious decisions, including ending the mandatory long-term census.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Visualization of the Week
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11 Data Visualizations Ahead of Their Time
A single data visualization graphic can be priceless. It can save you hours of research. They?re easy to read, interpret, and, if based on the right sources, accurate, as well. And with the highly social nature of the web, the data can be lighthearted, fun and presented in so many different ways. What?s most striking about data visualizations though is that they aren?t as modern a concept as we tend to think they are. In fact, they go back to more than 2,500 years?before computers and tools for easy visual representation of data even existed.
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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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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS
- The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (September 17, 2015)
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (September 17, 2015)
Bureau of Justice Statistics
- National Crime Victimization Survey (November 12, 2015)
Census Bureau
- Advance Monthly Retail Trade Survey (September 11, 2015)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (October 13, 2015)
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