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Call for Proposals: Kauffman Firm Survey Data Extension – Data Matching

Deadline: January 15, 2012

 

As the Kauffman Foundation nears the completion of its eight-year panel study on new firms in the United States, the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), the Foundation seeks interested scholars who would like to extend its core survey data in ways that do not increase the burden on survey respondents.  While more than 6,000 variables are included in the confidential version of the KFS microdata, the Kauffman Foundation recognizes that there are additional opportunities for research that become available by incorporating new sources of data to leverage the existing KFS survey information. Through this grant program, the Kauffman Foundation hopes to accomplish the following:

  • Expand the community of experts involved with the KFS to include scholars with expertise in natural language processing, web scraping, and related approaches;
  • Create reusable infrastructure; and
  • Use the prototype/demo infrastructure to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach—missingness, accuracy, utility—to expand our understanding of different approaches for matching to existing data sets.

Multiple projects are likely to be funded with individual project budgets up to $50,000 preferred.

Full details available here.
 

 

Notable Data Publications

 

Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases 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):

 

Federal Highway Administration

  • Highway Performance Monitoring System (December 12, 2011)

 

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October 13, 2011

 

 


Webinar:
Taxes: More Than Just Income & Sales

October 26, 2011
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Register

 

This webinar is the second installment of APDU’s webinar series on the Census of Governments.  This session will explain how the Census Bureau classifies and assigns tax revenues, what it publishes, and how the data is used for policy and macroeconomic analysis outside of the Census Bureau.
 
Presenters:

Cheryl H. Lee
Branch Chief
State Finance and Tax Statistics Branch, Governments Division
U.S. Census Bureau

Kim Rueben
Senior Fellow
Tax Policy Center
Urban Institute

Christopher Hall
Administrator
Tax Analysis Division
Ohio Department of Taxation
 

 

NCES Conference:
NCES 2012 Winter Forum and 25th Annual Management Information Systems (MIS) Conference, “Server’s Up, Dude!”

February 13-17, 2012

Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina

San Diego, CA

More Information, Registration, and Call for Proposals

 

 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics Webinar:
Transportation Services Index

 

October 18, 2011
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

 

To participate in the webinar:

 

At the webinar start time, go here, click on “Enter as Guest,” type your name, and click “Enter the Room.”

Alternatively, use the conference call number: 1-877-336-1839, pass code: 2683607.
 

 

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