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Last Chance to Sign on to Letter!
APDU will stop accepting signatures on March 15 for the letter to Congress supporting federal statistics. This letter describes the value of federal statistics to our work and emphasizes our support for federal data that guides private investments, state and local decision making, and the proper functioning of our democracy.
If you agree with the content of this letter, please sign up and we will add your name, title, and organizational affiliation to the growing list of organizations that share our concerns about the future of federal statistics.
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Remember to submit job postings for the APDU Job Board to Brendan Buff at bbuff@crec.net!
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Federal Data Empowers Local Decisionmaking
A proposed congressional bill to protect and empower local decisionmaking could end up limiting access to valuable federal data that local governments rely on to make informed decisions across many policy issues. Such a move could be a significant step backward for evidence-based policymaking.
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Kick-Starting Data-Driven Government
As the civic data field matures, more cities are discovering the value of data to improve government and asking how they can more fully join the movement. The path a public-sector leader should take to move from analog government to analytics-driven decision-making requires following sound advice and proven examples. Purchasing or building a data solution is only worth the investment when accompanied by the right planning, staffing and support to ensure that the tools not only solve an immediate civic problem but will generate long-term improvement.
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Senate Dems Raise Concerns About Labor Dept. Data
Prominent Senate Democrats are raising concerns about the independence and integrity of the Labor Department?s statistical bureau under President Donald Trump?s administration. Without citing instances of bias in Labor Department reports, Sen. Patty Murray (D., Wash.), the ranking member of the committee overseeing the department, and seven colleagues asked the president for a commitment to produce ?neutral and unbiased reports on our country?s labor market and unemployment rate,? in a letter sent to the White House on Thursday.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Introducing data.world
data.world is a Public Benefit Corporation and Certified B Corporation with a mission to build the world?s most collaborative, abundant, and meaningful data resource. data.world improves the search, discovery/understanding, and collaboration aspects of the “first-mile” of data work, where 80% of a data project’s time is spent and which is riddled with inefficiencies. We believe that finding data should be easy, that preparing data should be painless and quick, that collaborating on data projects should be seamless, secure, and social, and that combining open data with closed data should be safe and productive. Recent media coverage includes: ZDNet, TechCrunch, VentureBeat.
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Visualization of the Week
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Mapping the History of US Immigration
Max Galka of Metrocosm created a map that shows everyone who immigrated to the United States between 1820 and 2013 (1 dot = 10,000 people). The data is from the DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics and includes only people who attained permanent resident status. Most illegal immigration is not included.
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Notable Data Publications
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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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Bureau of Labor Statistics
- ConsumerPrice Index Commodities and Services Survey (May 2, 2017)
- Contingent Work Supplement to the Current Population Survey (April 3, 2017)
Census Bureau
- Notice of Correction to Federal Register Notice for 2017 Puerto Rico Census Test (April 1, 2017)
- Notice of Correction to Filing of Federal Register Notice for 2018 End-to-End Census Test-Address Canvassing Operation (April 1, 2017)
National Center for Education Statistics
- Developmental Studies to improve the National Health Care Surveys (April 3, 2017)
- International Early Learning Study 2018 Field Test Recruitment (April 3, 2017)
National Center for Health Statistics
- Customer Surveys Generic Clearance for the National Center for Health Statistics (May 8, 2017)
- Developmental Studies to improve the National Health Care Surveys (April 8, 2017)
- NHANES Longitudinal Study?Feasibility Component (April 1, 2017)
Office of Management and Budget
- Federal Interagency Working Group for Revision of the Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (April 30, 2017)
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