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ATUS – American Time Use Survey
The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) staff has announced a new publication: Unpaid Eldercare in the United States—2011-2012 Data from the American Time Use Survey. This publication presents data on eldercare for researchers, journalists, policymakers, and others interested in national estimates of care for persons with conditions related to aging. Sixteen percent of the U.S. civilian noninstitutional population age 15 and over (39.6 million people) provide unpaid eldercare. Nearly one-fourth of eldercare providers engage in unpaid eldercare on a given day, spending an average of 3.2 hours providing this care. Read more here.
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A Better Way to Compare City Budgets
As Detroit faces bankruptcy and many other cities across the U.S. address an ongoing crisis in municipal finance, the Lincoln Institute has created a new interactive database that for the first time allows meaningful comparisons of city finances – from spending on schools, police, and public works to revenues from the property tax and other sources. The Fiscally Standardized Cities (FiSC) database allows users to compare local government finances for 112 large U.S. central cities across more than 120 categories of revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets. Based on data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, the FiSC database provides 34 years of data (1977-2010), with additional years to be added as the data become available. Read more here.
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Keyword Search, Military Transition Search Reports Available
Three reports explain the development and algorithms of occupation keyword searches in O*NET web applications. Developers and researchers can learn about the keyword search in My Next Move and O*NET OnLine, the military transition search in My Next Move for Veterans, and the Spanish keyword search in Mi Próximo Paso. All three papers can be found in their Reports and Documents section. Read more here.
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DQC and National PTA: What Do Parents Need to Know about Education Data and Privacy?
The Data Quality Campaign teamed up with the National PTA to create What Every Parent Should Be Asking about Education Data and Privacy, which provides parents the questions they should be asking their children’s educators about the value of education data and how student privacy is ensured. Safeguarding the privacy, security, and confidentiality of student data is a critical concern for everyone, and DQC has pulled together some valuable resources on their action issue page.
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Early Educational Data Comments to U.S. Department of Education
The Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) project is an initiative headed by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics to create comparable, consistent data definitions. It’s an entirely voluntary initiative, and its glossary includes preschool through workforce data elements. CEDS is in the process of refining its version 4 dictionary – open for comments through Friday, September 20. Recently, New America’s Early Education Initiative weighed in on some of the early learning definitions. Read more here.
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Data Analysis and the Promise of Speedy Government
In times of emergency, good government means fast government, able to react nimbly and purposefully to new conditions as they arise. Having speedy government tomorrow, though, depends on preparation and prepositioning of critical resources today with the understanding that seemingly random events often fit into actionable patterns. By understanding these patterns now through clever combinations of data and new modeling techniques, governments can improve their responses and become more effective. Read more here.
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Notable Data Publications
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Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
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Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we’ll include it here.
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APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. 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):
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey–Insurance Component (October 17, 2013)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Taxi Driver Survey on Motor Vehicle Safety and Workplace Violence (or, Taxi Driver Survey) (November 13, 2013)
National Institutes of Health
- Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating (October 1, 2013)
Office of Justice Programs, DOJ
- Juvenile Residential Facility Census (October 16, 2013)
U.S. International Trade Commission
- Digital Trade in the U.S. and Global Economies, Part 2 (November 18, 2013)
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