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Why Asking About Citizenship Makes Census Less Accurate

Distrust of the government’s intentions toward noncitizens may be hard to overcome, research suggests, and political developments have increased levels of distrust.

 

 

Question in Census Shifts Power to Rural America

A request by the Justice Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census could shift the nation?s balance of political power from cities to more rural communities over the next decade and give Republicans a new advantage drawing electoral boundaries.

 

News

 

Data Viz Training Early Bird Rate and Room Block Ending
The reduced Early Bird Rate for APDU?s upcoming training, Telling Your Story Through Data Visualization, expires on January 26. Register today!

The room block for this training ends January 29- book your room today!

 

2018 APDU Annual Conference

Submit your session for the APDU Conference Call for Proposals today.

The deadline is January 31.

 

Census Uncertainty Spurs Action to Prevent Undercounting

Amid fears that a lack of money will prevent an accurate count, states are gearing up to identify the people the 2020 U.S. Census is most likely to miss, from trailer-park residents in New York to people living in shantytowns in New Mexico.

 

What Aspiring Data Scientists Are Looking for in Companies

When Data Scientists look for jobs in a hot career market, your company needs to stand out. Here?s what you need to succeed.

 

Who Owns Urban Mobility Data?
Policymakers need it; private transportation companies have it. Here?s one way to broker a solution.

 

New Institute of Education Sciences RFA
For FY 18, IES requests applications for a Network Lead for our new Expanding the Evidence Base for Career and Technical Education Network (CTE Network) through the Research Networks Focused on Critical Problems of Education Policy and Practice request for applications (84.305N). The Institute is particularly interested in increasing the number of causal studies examining the effects of CTE policies, programs, and practices on students’ academic and career and technical outcomes.

 

Former Statistical Agency Heads Call for Better Use of Data
The Bipartisan Policy Center transmitted a letter to the President and Congress on behalf of 36 former heads of U.S. statistical agencies who endorsed the vision and recommendations from the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking. The letter includes signatories with experience at Census, BEA, BLS, NASS, ERS, NSF, NCES, BJS, EIA, NCHS, IRS/SOI and OMB.

 

New & Updated Data Sources

 

CEDS V7.1 Released

NCES announced the release of the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) version 7.1 and enhancements to the CEDS tools. The education data management initiative was created to streamline the understanding of data within and across institutions and sectors including a common data vocabulary. Users can expect updates to data element definitions and enhancements to Align, Connect, and myConnect in response to user requests.

 

 

Visualization of the Week

 

 

How Tenants Track Bad Landlords and Gentrification
In social justice cartography, digital mapping technology is being harnessed for activism as it becomes more accessible.

 

Notable Data Publications

 

 

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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):