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APDU Nominations & Elections Committee Reminder
APDU’s Bylaws provide an opportunity for the membership to nominate additional candidates for our Board Elections. Candidate names may be placed on the ballot via a “nomination by petition.” The 14-day petition window expires Tuesday, November 8. Members should have received an announcement via email on October 25. If you haven?t, please contact Spencer Abrams.
Petitions must be emailed to Bob Scardamalia and received no later than Nov. 8, 2016. Each petition should include the names of the petitioners (minimum of five), the name of the nominee, the position to which the individual is being nominated, and the statement of candidacy that all Board nominees must complete (brief biographical statement, a description of prior involvement in APDU, and the candidate’s goals). Candidate names received via valid petitions will be announced and added to the ballot.
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2018 National Health Interview Survey Redesign
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is redesigning its well-respected household interview survey, the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The NHIS, the principal source of information on the nation?s health since 1957, is used by the public health research community to monitor trends in illness and disability, track progress toward achieving national health objectives, evaluate federal programs, and conduct epidemiologic and policy research. The survey will feature a new structure and updated content in 2018. This month, the first draft questionnaires were released to the public for comment.
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24 Questions to Ask when Preparing Data for Analysis
Data preparation is perhaps the most important step in any type of serious data analysis. And while it would be ludicrous to attempt to cover such a broad field of knowledge in one article, SmartData Collective has prepared a quick checklist that you can run through when preparing data for analysis. Hopefully, this will help you optimize the data preparation process and make sure you have all the important steps and bases covered.
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U.S. Census Bureau Announces Changes to 2017 Field Tests
The U.S. Census Bureau has announced that it will stop plans to test field operations in Puerto Rico, the Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota, and the Colville Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land in Washington State in 2017. Instead, the Census Bureau will consider including these sites in our 2018 End-to-End Census Test.
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BEA Uses Regional Statistics to Distribute Federal Funds
Did you know that each year BEA regional economic statistics, such as annual personal income and per capita personal income are used to allocate billions of dollars in federal funds to states and local governments? In fiscal year 2015, nearly $400 billion in federal funds were distributed under programs using BEA statistics in federal funding formulas.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Mapping Computer and Internet Use by State
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) are launching a new feature of our Data Explorer tool enabling users to visualize NTIA’s computer and Internet use data by state, with metrics displayed in a national map. Users can easily adjust the map to reflect different datasets, while pressing the “Play” button cycles through datasets to show how the country has changed over time. The map view is available for every metric in Data Explorer, such as use of various devices, locations of Internet use, and online activities.
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Health Care Satellite Account
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released a fresh set of statistics Wednesday detailing how much the United States spends to treat different diseases and medical conditions. The numbers, which cover 2013, offer new insights into health care, which accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. economy. The statistics are part of BEA?s Health Care Satellite Account, created in 2015, to offer a new way of looking at health care spending. This data project breaks out spending by the treatment of disease, such as circulatory diseases or cancers, rather than by place of service, such as hospital or doctor?s office.
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Visualization of the Week
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A Day in the Life of Americans
Time is limited, as we?ve seen. How do you spend your days? Since 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has sponsored the American Time Use Survey asking thousands of people this question. The Census Bureau conducts the survey. Nathan Yau, a statistician writing for FlowingData, has created a beautiful series of visualizations depicting time use.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NONPROFITS & 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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Department of Labor
- Family and Medical Leave Act Wave 4 Surveys (December 27, 2016)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- West Coast Swordfish Fishery Survey (December 27, 2016)
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