The 2017 APDU Annual Conference will be held on September 13-14, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia at the Residence Inn Arlington/Pentagon City.
APDU is welcoming members to join with our theme of ?Communicating Data? by submitting a proposal for a presentation or panel related to public data. We are inviting proposals on any topic relating to public data, whether based on a particular project, data practice, or formal paper. You may submit ideas for a single presentation or a full panel (three presenters, plus a moderator).
The deadline to submit proposals is April 15, 2017.
Congress will shortly consider final action on the FY 2017 federal budget and then begin to consider its FY 2018 budget. This is a critical time for the Census Bureau as we circulate this year’s co-signature letter addressed to congressional appropriators.
As the letter explains, the 2018 End-To-End field test must be fully funded so that new, innovative, cost-saving information technologies can be tested.
The Census Project has set Friday, April 21, 2017, as the deadline to receive co-signatures. We hope that your organization will consider joining us. And, if you have affiliates and chapters, please feel free to circulate this email and draft letter to them.
To indicate that you want to be a co-signatory to the letter, please fill out this form.
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It?s three years away and still a year from its scheduled dress rehearsal, but nervous observers are already asking: What happens to the 2020 U.S. census under President Donald Trump?
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Hospitals, governments, school systems, and many other institutions gather a wealth of data on individuals for operational purposes. MIT-based J-PAL North America recently launched a catalog of administrative datasets to provide researchers with clear information on data access and content, including costs and indicators. Together with J-PAL North America’s guide to using administrative data for randomized evaluations, this public catalog will support researchers in carrying out high-quality evaluations.
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Visualization of the Week
Japan?s Cherry Blossoms Are Emerging Increasingly Early From its most recent peak in 1829, when full bloom could be expected to come on April 18th, the typical full-flowering date has drifted earlier and earlier. Since 1970, it has usually landed on April 7th. The cause is little mystery.
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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):
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies (June 9, 2017)
Census Bureau
Current Population Survey, Housing Vacancy Survey (May 12, 2017)
National Survey of Children’s Health (May 12, 2017)
National Center for Education Statistics
Confidentiality Pledges Under Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act and Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (May 11, 2017) <
