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APDU 2010 Annual Conference
“Public Data 2010: Opportunities and Challenges for the New Decade”
September 20 – 21, 2010
Announcing The Entire Speaker Line-up For The APDU Annual Conference
This Week’s Featured Session:
Measuring American Poverty
Defining and measuring poverty has been a challenge for decades and traditional poverty measures have long been criticized as inadequate. In this session, panelists will discuss the challenges in measuring low income populations as well as the current effort, involving the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, among others, to create a modern poverty measure. Panel members will provide the latest information about the emerging supplemental measure and what it might mean for data users and policy makers.
Chair: Constance Citro, Director, Committee on National Statistics, The National Academies
APDU Newsletter Released This Week
In this month’s President’s Corner, Andrew Reamer commented on the RNC resolution regarding the ACS.
Full newsletter available here.
Notable Data Publications
Each week, APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical agency data releases and discussions of interest to APDU members.
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
• Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (October 25, 2010)
• Information and Communication Technology Survey (October 25, 2010)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
• National Compensation Survey (September 10, 2010)
Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Direct Investment Surveys: BE-577, Quarterly Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad–Direct Transactions of U.S. Reporter With Foreign Affiliate (November 1, 2010)
Federal Housing Finance Agency
• Monthly Interest Rate Survey (September 30, 2010)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA
• National Animal Health Monitoring System; Dairy Heifer Raiser 2010 Study (October 25, 2010)
• National Animal Health Monitoring System; Sheep 2011 Study (October 26, 2010)
Institute of Museum and Library Services
• State Library Administrative Agencies Survey, FY 2011-2013 (September 25, 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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