The U.S. Census Bureau delivered its planned subjects for the 2020 Census to Congress, which include gender, age, race, ethnicity, relationship and homeownership status. By law, the Census Bureau must deliver decennial census subjects to Congress three years before Census Day, with the next one occurring April 1, 2020. The subjects represent the necessary balance between the need for data and the Census Bureau?s commitment to reduce the time it takes to complete the form. By law, the actual questions that will appear on the 2020 Census questionnaire must be submitted to Congress by March 31, 2018.
Upcoming APDU Webinar APDU Members interested in creating data portals, the sharing of data, and health data in particular, should consider attending our webinar on April 5, 2017 at 3:00 PM.
Carley Riley and Brita Roy of 100M Lives will present the evolving measurement framework for 100 Million Healthier Lives, which attempts to give communities tools for measuring mental, physical, social and spiritual wellbeing and its drivers at the community level.
News
An Open Letter to the Open Data Community This is an open letter directed towards those in the open data community ? including vendors, startups, civic groups, and engaged individuals. The Civic Analytics Network are a consortium of Chief Data Officers and analytics principals in large cities and counties throughout the United States. As a group, they work together to advance how local governments use data to be more efficient, innovative, and in particular, transparent.
The DATA Act of 2014, which Ranking Member Cummings, then-Chairman Issa, and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform championed, makes open data the default for federal spending information. But the DATA Act is limited to spending. It is time for Congress to affirm that not just spending, but all federal information, everything that is legally public, should be freely available and electronically searchable.
5 Q?s for Ondřej Tomas, Co-Founder of CleverMaps The Center for Data Innovation spoke to Ondřej Tomas, co-founder of CleverMaps, a Prague-based data visualization company. Tomas talked about the complexity of managing land and infrastructure in farming and construction, and how the visualization of data in maps can simplify the task of complying with regulations and identifying problems.
New & Updated Data Sources
A New, Powerful Data Tool For Cities The Peer City Identification Tool is a powerful online tool that allows policymakers, planners and researchers to truly identify cities facing similar challenges, and in the process find the ones that may have developed appropriate policy responses.
Visualization of the Week
Is it Better to Rent or Buy? The choice between buying a home and renting one is among the biggest financial decisions that many adults make. But the costs of buying are more varied and complicated than for renting, making it hard to tell which is a better deal. To help you answer this question, this New York Times calculator takes the most important costs associated with buying a house and computes the equivalent monthly rent.
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Federal Rulemaking and 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
2018 End-to-End Census Test-Peak Operations (May 30, 2017)
Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (April 21, 2017)
Survey of Construction, Questionnaire for the Building Permit Official (April 21, 2017)
National Center for Education Statistics
National Assessment of Educational Progress 2018-2019(May 22, 2017)
School Survey on Crime and Safety 2018 and 2020 (May 22, 2017)
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
Survey of Public Attitudes Toward and Understanding of Science and Technology (May 26, 2017)
March 30, 2017
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