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APDU 2010 Annual Conference
“Public Data 2010: Opportunities and Challenges for the New Decade”
September 20 – 21, 2010
Announcing: APDU’s Keynote Speaker
Raphael Bostic
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development & Research
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Monday September 20th
More information available here.
Appropriations Update for Key Statistical Programs
FY2011 appropriations bills for the Bureau of Labor Statistics were recently approved by House and Senate committees.
More information and details are available here.
Notable Data Publications
Each week, APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical agency data releases and discussions of interest to APDU members.
• Census Bureau, County Business Patterns: 2008
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 2009
• National Science Foundation, Characteristics of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates: 2006
• Bureau of Economic Analysis, Research and Development Satellite Account, 2010
• Economic Research Service, America’s Diverse Family Farms, 2010 Edition
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Atlas Database, 2010
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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):
Census Bureau
• 2008 Panel of the Survey of Income Program Participation, Wave 8 Topical Modules (September 13, 2010)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (September 15, 2010)
Institute of Education Sciences, ED
• FRSS 98: District Survey of Distance Education Courses for Public Elementary and Secondary School Students: 2009-10 (September 17, 2010)
Office of the Secretary, HHS
• National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey (September 13, 2010)
Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD
• 2011 American Housing Survey (October 12, 2010)
Forest Service, USDA
• National Survey on Recreation and the Environment (October 18, 2010)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
• Agricultural Surveys Program (October 18, 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.
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APDU 2010 Annual Conference,
Sept. 20-21, 2010
Washington, D.C.
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APDU Resources
APDU offers a point of entry for many online data resources ranging from public datasets to statistical assistance.
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