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APDU Data Update

APDU Data Update

 August 12, 2010

APDU 2010 Annual Conference
“Public Data 2010: Opportunities and Challenges for the New Decade”
September 20 – 21, 2010
US Dept of Agriculture Economic Research Service
1800 M Street NW, Washington, D.C.
 
Join us at APDU’s annual conference where data users will get a unique opportunity to interact with Federal agencies producing and analyzing public statistics. Sessions will provide insights on the future of demographic, economic, education, health, transportation, and other statistical programs important to data users.
 
Early registration ends August 20, 2010.
 
More information available here.

 
Census Bureau Releases Timetable for 2009 Income, Poverty and Health
          Insurance Estimates and American Community Survey Data
Income, poverty and health insurance estimates for 2009 from the Current Population Survey will be released Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010.  One-year ACS estimates for 2009 will be released on September 28 and 5-year (2005-2009) estimates are planned for December 2010.
 
More details available here.   
 
APDU Co-Sponsors NCHS Reception

APDU is pleased to co-sponsor a reception honoring the 50th anniversary of the National Center for Health Statistics on August 17, 5:00-7:00 pm, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The reception is taking place as part of the 2010 National Conference on Health Statistics.

APDU congratulates NCHS for its 50 years of remarkable work on behalf of American public health and wishes it continued success (and good budgets!) over the years to come.

 
Appropriations Update for Key Statistical Programs

 
FY2011 appropriations bills for the Economic Research Service and the National Agricultural Statistics Service were recently approved by House and Senate committees.
 
More information and details are available here. 
 
Notable Data Releases 

Each week, APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical agency data releases and discussions of interest to APDU members.

• Bureau of Economic Analysis – Personal Income, Metropolitan Areas, 2009
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – “Seasonally adjusted hours series from the Current Population Survey,” Issues in Labor Statistics, July 2010
• Census Bureau — Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, 2007

 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 week, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS
• National Disease Surveillance Program II. Disease Summaries     (October 11, 2010)
• National Hospital Discharge Survey     (October 11, 2010)
 
Institute of Education Sciences, ED
• NCES Cognitive, Pilot, and Field Test Studies System Clearance     (September 9, 2010)
• Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS 2011/12) Preliminary Field Activities 2010/11     (October 11, 2010)
 
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.
 
APDU 2010 Annual Conference,
Sept. 20-21, 2010
Washington, D.C.
 
APDU Resources
 
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