APDU Weekly – March 10, 2022

March 10, 2022

NEWS

Experts: Census Needs Funding to Repair Its Data ‘Backbone’

New Report Raises Alarm That Essential Data for the Nation Is at Risk

Census Bureau to Lay Out Potential Misses in 2020 Count

Why the Census Invented Nine Fake People in One House

Treasury Launches Historic Equity Measurements for American Rescue Plan Small Business Investments Program

Sizable Growth in Federal Budget Authority for R&D Evident for the FYs 2017–21 Period; Further Increase Proposed for FY 2022

COVID-19 NEWS

Borrowed Time: The Lifesaving Link Between Debt, Distancing, and Vaccines

Women of Color and Women With Children Disproportionately Left the Labor Force During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

New ‘Digital Equity’ Data, Mapping Tools Opened to State and Local Agencies

DATA VISUALIZATION

Which Countries Feature Women on Banknotes?

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau

Pre-Release of 1950 Census Records

March 14, 2022

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

More Information

Census Bureau

Your Community by the Numbers: Race and Ethnicity

March 22, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

More Information

Census Bureau

The Psychology of Mapping Census Bureau Data

March 24, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Comparing the American Community Survey and Current Population Survey

March 30, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Your Community by the Numbers: Ancestry, and Foreign-Born Populations

March 31, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

More Information

DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Victimization in Different Types of Areas in the United States: Subnational Findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2010–2015

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Over 16 Million Women Worked in Health Care and Social Assistance in 2021
• Nearly Half of Establishments That Required COVID-19 Vaccinations Offered Incentives
• Share of Workplace Deaths Among Hispanic and Latino Workers Continued to Rise in 2020
• 16 Major Work Stoppages in 2021
• Regional and State Unemployment, 2021 Annual Average Summary

Census Bureau

• Pandemic Did Not Disrupt Decline in Rate of People Moving
• Small Business Pulse Survey Phase 8 Weekly Data Release
• Household Pulse Survey Phase 3.4

Energy Information Administration

• EIA Projects U.S. Energy Consumption Will Grow Through 2050, Driven by Economic Growth
• Annual Energy Outlook 2022

National Center for Education Statistics

• Teachers of Hispanic or Latino Origin: Background and School Settings in 2017‒18

National Center for Health Statistics

• Suicide Mortality in the United States, 2000–2020

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Annual Business Survey: 2019 (Data Year 2018)

MEDIA

Bloomberg

• U.S. Labor Market Nears Pre-Covid Levels, But Recovery Is Uneven

The Hill

• Here Are the States With the Highest and Lowest Gender Wage Gap

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)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (May 2, 2022)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Barrier Failure Reporting in Oil and Gas Operations on the Outer Continental Shelf (April 4, 2022)

Census Bureau

• Business Trends and Outlook Survey (April 26, 2022)
• 2022 Economic Census (April 1, 2022)
• National Survey of Children’s Health (March 31, 2022)
• Census Bureau – Ask U.S. Panel (March 31, 2022)

Institute of Education Sciences

• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 2022-23 through 2024-25 (April 26, 2022)