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This is the last APDU weekly for 2016. We will return on January 5, 2017.
We wish you happy holidays and a joyous new year!
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Census Bureau 2020 Advisory Committee
The Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) is requesting nominations of organizations to the Census Bureau 2020 Advisory Committee. The Census Bureau will consider nominations received in response to this notice, as well as from other sources. Nominations are due by January 19, 2017. For more information on the membership criteria, follow the link above to the Federal Register notice.
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Senate Passes OPEN Government Data Act
The Senate approved by unanimous consent the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act (S.2852), sending a strong signal to the incoming 115th Congress that the bill can quickly be passed by both chambers upon re-introduction in January. The OPEN Government Data Act would require all federal agencies to publish their information online, using nonproprietary, machine-readable data formats.
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Census Economists to Present at ASSA/AEA Meetings
U.S. Census Bureau economists will present results from their research at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) and American Economic Association (AEA) in Chicago January 6-8, 2017. This meeting brings together more than 11,000 economists and scholars in related fields from around the world and showcases ongoing research in economics. Census Bureau economists will also serve as discussants of related papers in their fields of expertise, act as panelists and recruit doctoral candidates interested in careers at the Census Bureau.
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Which Groups Are Counted?
Potential revisions to the OMB’s standards for collecting data on race and ethnicity draw interest from medical educators and anthropologists.
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The Data Visualization Catalogue
The Data Visualization Catalogue is an on-going project developed by Severino Ribecca. This project was created develop knowledge of data visualization and to build a reference tool. Although there have been a few attempts in the past to catalogue some of the established data visualization methods, there is no website that is comprehensive, detailed or helps you decide the right method for your needs.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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2015 Medicare Drug Spending Data
The 2015 Medicare drug spending data files present drug spending and utilization information on Medicare Part B drugs (drugs administered in doctors? offices and other outpatient settings) and Medicare Part D drugs (drugs patients generally administer themselves). These data files are the basis for the 2015 Medicare Drug Spending Dashboard and include annual data for 2011 to 2015.
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Census Bureau Releases Survey of Manufactures Data
The U.S. Census Bureau released data from the 2015 Annual Survey of Manufactures. The files show that petroleum refineries experienced a 37.4 percent decrease in value of shipments from $741.1 billion in 2014 to $464.3 billion in 2015.
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PolicyMap Now Has Data on Fair Housing
More than two years ago, President Obama and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro, introduced a revision to the Fair Housing Act that seeks to ?affirmatively further fair housing? (AFFH) by requiring HUD grantees to take active steps toward ?overcom[ing] historic patterns of segregation.? As outlined in the President?s Final Rule, a key component of this initiative was the provision, by HUD, of demographic, housing, education, health, employment, transportation, and other data, mapped out so as to reveal patterns of segregation that may have been previously unseen or unknown to grantees and policymakers. We?re excited to announce that much of HUD?s AFFH data is now available on PolicyMap.
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New Statistics on Activities of US Multinational Enterprises
Detailed statistics on the worldwide activities of U.S. multinational enterprises in 2014, including the finances and operations of U.S. parent companies and their foreign affiliates, are now available from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Visualization of the Week
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How Much Water Do We Use?
How and where Americans use water has changed with our population growth and many technological, environmental, and regulatory drivers. The USGS Water Availability and Use Science Program has documented how and where we use water for the last 65 years.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
HIGHER EDUCATION
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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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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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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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