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TO CENSUS USERS: Your Response Needed Immediately
The Census Project has learned of two budget amendments being introduced in the US Senate that seriously threaten 2020 Census planning, as well as the future of the American Community Survey and other important Census Bureau programs, such as the 2017 Economic Census. We urge your organizations to contact your Senators ASAP and ask them to oppose Vitter Amendment #4687 and Fischer Amendment #4711 to the FY2017 Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) Appropriations bill (S. 2578), for the reasons outlined in the talking points and fact sheet. For more information about these amendments and their impacts click here.
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Job Board June 2016
APDU?s June Job Board can now be found on the APDU website. Thank you to all who submitted job postings for this month! You can submit your job postings to info@apdu.org.
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Translating the U.S. Census Questionnaire into Arabic
In 2020, census questionnaires may for the first time be offered in Arabic, now the fastest-growing language in the U.S. However, the Census Bureau faces a challenge not only in translating the language but also in adjusting the appearance of the questionnaire for those accustomed to reading and writing Arabic script.
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U.S. May Boost Incentives for Consumer Spending Surveys
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is considering offering incentives to increase response rates to a revised consumer spending survey, the agency’s commissioner told Reuters. Such incentives are usually financial – paying people to respond – but they could, for example, also include an Apple (AAPL.O) iPad for respondents that they can keep after using it to report information, the commissioner said.
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Open Data: Creating New Opportunities in Public Sector
Increased availability of open data increases the ease with which citizens and their governments can collaborate, as well as equipping citizens to be active in identifying and addressing issues themselves. Technology developers are able to explore innovative uses of open data in combination with digital tools, new apps or other products that can tackle recognized inefficiencies. Currently, both the public and private sectors are teeming with such apps and projects. Open data has proven to be a catalyst for the creation of new tools across industries and public-sector uses.
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Precision Medicine Data Security Framework
The Obama administration released the data security framework for its Precision Medicine Initiative ? a push to use patients’ genetic, environmental and lifestyle data to find better ways to treat illnesses. A critical part of the initiative is a plan to establish a million-person research cohort that would allow scientists to examine oodles of data for new insights on a range of conditions, like cancer. The Data Security Policy Principles and Framework establishes a structure for protecting the personal health information of anyone participating in the initiative?s programs.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Genomic Data Commons
The Genomic Data Commons (GDC), a unified data system that promotes sharing of genomic and clinical data between researchers, launched with a visit from Vice President Joe Biden to the operations center at the University of Chicago. An initiative of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the GDC will be a core component of the National Cancer Moonshot and the President?s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), and benefits from $70 million allocated to NCI to lead efforts in cancer genomics as part of PMI for Oncology. The GDC will centralize, standardize and make accessible data from large-scale NCI programs such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and its pediatric equivalent, Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET).
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Logging Consumer Complaints at the FCC
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made data about informal consumer complaints it receives through its Consumer Help Center publicly available. The FCC receives thousands of consumer complaints each week on phone, Internet, television, radio, and telemarketing issues, such as unwanted calls, billing problems, indecent broadcasted content, and illegal broadcasts. All of the complaint data is anonymized and the FCC provides application programming interfaces (APIs), maps, and charts to make it easier to work with and understand the data.
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World Input-Output Database
Production processes increasingly fragment across borders. This fundamentally alters the nature of international trade with deep consequences for the location of production. The World Input-Output Database (WIOD) is the first public database that contains new information on these trends and provides the opportunity to analyze the consequences of fragmentation, for example for shifting patterns in demand for skills in labor markets, or for local emissions of air pollutants. The World Input-Output Database (WIOD) provides time-series of world input-output tables for forty countries worldwide and a model for the rest-of-the-world, covering the period from 1995 to 2011.
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Visualization of the Week
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Tracking the Likelihood of the Brexit
Bloomberg has created a website to visualize public sentiment about whether or not Britain should leave the European Union, a referendum known as the ?Brexit.? The tracker, which Bloomberg updates daily, plots polling data and analysis from the Brexit probability index, a score calculated by Matt Singh of the Number Cruncher Politics blog that aggregates and adjusts polling data for historical accuracy and recency. The tracker charts the overall likelihood of the Brexit, political events that could influence public sentiment about the Brexit, the impact of the possibility of the Brexit on financial markets, and the percentage of people for and against the Brexit since September 1, 2015, when the referendum question was established. The tracker will continue until June 23, 2016, when Britain will vote on the referendum.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
HIGHER EDUCATION
NONPROFITS & 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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Administration for Children and Families
- National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being-Third Cohort (NSCAW III): Agency Recruitment (July 8, 2016)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS
- Survey of Hospital Quality Leaders (July 11, 2016)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Veterans Supplement to the Current Population Survey (July 13, 2016)
National Center for Education Statistics
- International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2018) Field Test and Recruitment for Main Study (July 15, 2016)
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