At the 2016 APDU Annual Conference, you have a unique opportunity to directly influence how federal statistics are gathered, produced, and shared. Learn from experts. Engage with leaders. Collaborate with peers to make a difference. Join us on September 13-14 in Alexandria, VA.
Featured speakers include: Katherine Wallman, Chief Statistician for OMB; John Thompson, Director of the Census Bureau; Erica Groshen, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; Bill Frey, author of the Diversity Explosion.
At APDU?s Annual Conference, you get to interact on a personal basis with public data agency decision makers, share your experiences, and influence their strategies for improving available data, designing new data products, and shaping how information is shared.
Come see for yourself why APDU?s Conference has grown over 40% over the last three years! We are where the federal statistical system meets Open Data and Big Data. APDU is where data innovation collides to create new tools for data scientists in the public and private sector and new dissemination strategies for public data users.
News
5 Q?s for Founder & CEO of Real Impact Analytics The Center for Data Innovation spoke with S?bastien Deletaille, founder and CEO of the Belgian company Real Impact Analytics (RIA) which provides organizations with the capability to analyze, and act upon large inflows of data. RIA has operations in Europe, Africa, and South America.
COSSA Submits FY 2017 Testimony on NCHS, Others COSSA submitted its annual Outside Witness Testimony to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. COSSA’s testimony for fiscal year (FY) 2017 addresses the need for strong funding of the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Institute for Education Sciences, and Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs. Click here to read testimony submitted to the House, and here for the Senate.
New & Updated Data Sources
Update: Census Business Builder: Small Business Edition The latest update to the Small Business Edition includes the addition of American Community Survey statistics, new features including a new data dashboard and performance improvements. An update to the Regional Analyst Edition will be available in late April 2016.
Data on Federal Refundable Tax Credits Now Available For years, BEA has provided state-by-state information on people?s incomes, which includes refundable tax credits and rebates. But BEA did not break out the refundable tax credit statistics. Now, for the first time, BEA is making available the amounts and types of federal refundable tax credits broken out for each state, giving policymakers, researchers and academics a new tool for economic analysis.
Adobe Digital Economy Project In March 2016, Adobe announced the Digital Economy Project (DEP), which aims to use the power of big data to provide insights on everything from online inflation to job search. The DEP recently released updated economic data for the month of March and also expanded the Digital Price Index (DPI) to include several new categories, including Appliances, Toys, and Furniture.
NASS Launches New Local Foods Survey The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has begun data collection for its first-ever Local Food Marketing Practices Survey, which will produce official benchmark data on the U.S. local food sector. According to a NASS press release, the survey will produce information on “the value of food sales by marketing channel (i.e. farmers markets, community supported agriculture (CSA) arrangements, restaurants, roadside stands, food hubs, and more), value of crop and livestock sales, marketing practices, expenses, Federal farm program participation, and more.” NASS expects to release the data in December 2016.
Visualization of the Week
Map: Influence of Income & Location on Life Expectancy The New York Times has created a data visualization illustrating the significant differences in life expectancy for poor Americans across the United States. The visualization maps the life expectancy for the average 40-year-old with a household income lower that $28,000 in every county for which there is data, and it allows users to compare the difference in life expectancy for poor men and women by city, as well as see how these estimates have changed since 2001. The visualization uses data from a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that analyzed large amounts of anonymized earnings records and death certificates to reveal large differences in life expectancy for poor Americans based on where they lived. For example, a poor person living in Pecos County, Texas, has a life expectancy of 75.6 years, compared to 82.6 years in Queens, New York.
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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):
Census Bureau
Generic Clearance for Master Address File (MAF) and Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) Update Activities (May 20, 2016)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
The 2017 Census of Agriculture (June 20, 2016)
National Center for Education Statistics
International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2018) Field Test and Recruitment for Main Study (June 14, 2016)
National Institutes of Health
Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study-Wave 4 of Data Collection (NIDA) (June 14, 2016)
April 21, 2016
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