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LMI Institute Data Confidentiality & Access Release
The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness and the Labor Market Information Institute are proud to announce the release of a new study, entitled, ?Balancing Confidentiality and Access: Sharing Employment and Wage Data for Policy Analysis and Research.? This research sought to catalogue the current state of practice in intra-state data sharing (data sharing among stakeholders within a state). It was also designed to recognize and catalyze efforts that try to balance the data confidentiality needs of individuals and employer taxpayers with the important role employment and wage data could play in strengthening policymakers? statistical and program evaluation activities. The ultimate goal of the investigation was to support changes in data sharing policies and practices that can make taxpayer investments in workforce and economic development programs more effective. This project was funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, with additional support from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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A Proposal to Cut IPEDS Compliance Hours by 2/3
This blog post by New America EdCentral reviews the recent white paper released by Senator Lamar Alexander?s (R-TN) Task Force on Federal Regulation of Higher Education. The report features the Integrated Postsecondary Data System (IPEDS) as the primary example of burden on institutional reporting.
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Senate Bill, Hearing on College Data
In a blog post from the Workforce Data Quality Campaign, Rachel Zinn writes about the introduction of the Student Right to Know Before You Go Act by Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Mark Warner (D-VA). This bill would create a federal student record system to report on postsecondary student progress and outcomes, including post-completion earnings.
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How Nonprofits Like the YMCA Use Data
Here?s how nonprofits like the YMCA are already using data to look for trends and insights, and even identify and find solutions to problems that don’t exist yet, but might be just around the corner.
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Ag Census Importance Infographic
The Census of Agriculture and the resulting data help inform decisions made across the agricultural spectrum, ranging from producers to policymakers.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Searchable Database Web Tool
A new online tool developed by NOAA to manage and integrate the massive amounts of data collected by different sources during the five years following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, called DIVER for Data Integration, Visualization, Exploration, and Reporting, is now available for use by research teams and the public at https://dwhdiver.orr.noaa.gov.
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Updated Military Occupations Included In O*NET Websites
The Military Occupational Classification (MOC) crosswalk has been updated by the Department of Defense (April 2015) and incorporated into O*NET OnLine and My Next Move for Veterans. Over 10,000 MOC occupations are linked to related O*NET-SOC occupations.
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Visualization of the Week
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Mapping Baltimore?s Demographic Divide
The Wall Street Journal has created a series of data visualizations that compare the change in Baltimore?s racial demographics from 1970 to 2010, and map poverty rates and diversity levels by location. The visualizations, which use data from the U.S. Census Bureau, reveal some unpleasant truths about the city, such as low levels of regional diversity despite high minority populations?indicative of high amounts of segregation.
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Notable Data Publications
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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 (June 8, 2015)
Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Survey of Prison Inmates (Formerly Named the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities) (June 8, 2015)
Census Bureau
- 2015-2016 School District Review Program (July 10, 2015)
Department of Education
- Gainful Employment Recent Graduates Employment and Earning Survey Pilot Test (July 13, 2015)
Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor
- Characteristics of the Insured Unemployed (ETA 203) (July 13, 2015)
Energy Information Administration
- 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (June 12, 2015)
Office of the Secretary, HHS
- State and Territorial Health Disparities Survey (STHD Survey) (July 7, 2015)
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