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APDU Data Update – Calls for Comment

APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections (http://www.apdu.org/advocacy.asp). 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

  • Developing a Supplemental Poverty Measure     (June 25, 2010)
  • 2010 Census Coverage Measurement–Person Followup & Person Followup Reinterview Operations and Respondent Debriefings     (July 5, 2010)
  • The 2010 Census Count Question Resolution Program     (July 26, 2010)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • Veterans Supplement to the CPS     (June 25, 2010)
  • Annual Refiling Survey     (July 26, 2010)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS

  • Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Surveillance System     (July 26, 2010)

Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS

  • Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients Data System     (July 27, 2010)

National Center for Education Statistics, Department of Education

  • FRSS 99: District Fast Response Survey of Dropout Prevention     (June 28, 2010)

Environmental Protection Agency

  • Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) 2012     (July 26, 2010)

National Science Foundation

  • 2010 National Survey of College Graduates     (June 24, 2010)
  • 2010 National Survey of Recent College Graduates     (June 24, 2010)
  • 2010 Survey of Doctorate Recipients     (June 24, 2010) 
In addition, the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau is conducting a customer satisfaction survey of its Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health. You can participate in the anonymous online survey by going to https://svy.cfigroup.com/cgi-bin/qwebcorporate.dll?idx=S59BJQ.
APDU encourages its members to take advantage of these opportunities to make their voices heard. All comments, whether a simple affirmation or detailed suggestions on instrument design, are helpful in seeing that data users have access to the statistics we need.
 
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