What ACS Data Users Are Saying Several APDU members have been featured on an American Community Survey (ACS) video. Hear members of the ACS Data Users Group share how they use ACS data and why.
News
The Value of the American Community Survey The Commerce Department’s Economics and Statistics Administration released a new report about the value of American Community Survey (ACS) data to public and private sector decision-making.
5 Q?s for Brandon Pustejovsky, Chief Data Officer at USAID The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Brandon Pustejovsky, chief data officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Pustejovsky discussed USAID?s efforts to have all of its partners abide by an open data policy and offered advice to other government agencies that want to be more data-driven.
Learning More from Data the Federal Govt Already Collects For the first time, workers choosing among different training programs that receive WIOA funding will be able to easily compare them on criteria that matter, like how much the program costs, the percent of participants who actually complete the program, and the average earnings of participants.
NCES Launches Blog The blog will provide a forum for news about the latest developments in NCES surveys, exciting new research opportunities, commonly misunderstood education measures, important new findings, and innovative data tools.
France to Head Open Government Partnership Over the past two years, France has been a leading country when it comes to open data and open government ? and it is paying off. Only one year after joining the Open Government Partnership, France has just been elected to head the Partnership starting in October 2016.
New BEA Tool Provides Trade and Investment Stats The Bureau of Economic Analysis launched a new data tool on its website that gives users a snapshot of statistics on trade and investment between the United States and another country by simply clicking on a world map.
Visualization of the Week
Visualizing the Pace of Social Change Alex Tribou and Keith Collins of Bloomberg Business have created a series of time lapse data visualizations demonstrating the rate of change for social policy issues in the United States. The visualizations track six issues?interracial marriage, prohibition, women?s suffrage, abortion, same-sex marriage, and recreational marijuana? and plot the rate at which states or the federal government legalized them.
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Calls for Comment
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):
Census Bureau
Precanvass Operation for the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey (July 6, 2015)
Department of Education
2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) Full-Scale Data Collection (June 3, 2015)
May 7, 2015
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