APDU Weekly – February 24, 2022

February 24, 2022

FEATURES

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A Future For Good: How Public Data Helps Us Create Resiliency and Equity for All

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APDU is welcoming proposals for the Data Symposium 2022, A Future For Good: How Public Data Helps Us Create Resiliency and Equity for All, (May 3 – 4, 2022). With economic, public health, and governance challenges arising from COVID-19 and political polarization, trustworthy public data is vital to open and honest policy debates. APDU is interested in proposals with specific state and local examples.

NEWS

Census Bureau to Release 2020 Census Data Quality Results

New Statistics From the American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates to Be Embargoed and Prerelease Webinar Scheduled

U.S. Census Director Says the Bureau Needs to Reduce Chances of Meddling After Trump

COVID-19 NEWS

Census Bureau Survey Now Measures COVID 19 Impact on Workforce, Supplies

DATA VISUALIZATION

Comparing the Carbon Footprint of Transportation Options

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau

National Advisory Committee

March 7, 2022

2:30 PM – 5:30 PM ET

More Information

Census Bureau

The Road to Employment Dynamics: OnTheMap

March 8, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

More Information

DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• The Nation’s Two Crime Measures, 2011–2020

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• 24 Percent of Establishments Increased Pay or Paid Bonuses Because of COVID-19 Pandemic
• Nonfuel Import Prices up 6.9 Percent for Year Ended January 2022
• Prime Options: High-Paying Math Careers With Projected Fast Growth
• Producer Prices for Final Demand up 9.7 Percent for Year Ended January 2022
• Real Average Weekly Earnings Down 3.1 Percent Over the 12 Months Ending January 2022
• Work Stoppages Summary

Census Bureau

• Black History Month: Census Bureau Looks at Nation’s Black-Owned Businesses
• Census Bureau Releases 2020 Presidential Election Voting Report

Economic Research Service

• Consumer Price Index, a Key Input for USDA’s 10-Year Commodity Projections, to Increase in Developed Regions While Decreasing in Developing Regions
• Food Prices Were Below Overall Inflation in 2021
• Increases in Labor Quality Contributed to Growth in U.S. Agricultural Output
• Large Organizations Deliver 80 Percent of Off-Farm Irrigation Water
• Organic Dairy Farms See Slower Productivity Growth Than Conventional Operations
• Some Irrigation Organizations Rely on Formal Drought Plans
• Sources, Trends, and Drivers of U.S. Dairy Productivity and Efficiency
• Structure of the USDA Livestock and Poultry Baseline Model

Energy Information Administration

• Three Countries Provided Almost 70% Of Liquefied Natural Gas Received in Europe in 2021

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• Evaluating and Addressing Biases in Non-probability Samples, Topic of the Upcoming 29th Annual Morris Hansen Lecture
• Value of Hemp Production Totaled $824 Million in 2021

National Center for Education Statistics

• The Feasibility of Collecting School Pension Data: An Evaluation of Data From the Pilot School Pension Survey (SPS) School Year 2016–17 (FY 17)
• Impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Education in the United States (Preliminary Data): Results From the 2020-21 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS)
• International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS): U.S. Icils 2018 Technical Report and User’s Guide

National Center for Health Statistics

• Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2020

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Higher Education in Science and Engineering
• National Patterns of R&D Resources: 2019–20 Data Update

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

• Generic Clearance for Cognitive, Pilot and Field Studies for Bureau of Justice Statistics Data Collection Activities (March 25, 2022)

Census Bureau

• Annual Business Survey (March 24, 2022)
• Current Population Survey, School Enrollment Supplement (April 19, 2022)