On the cutting edge of the future of our federal statistics, the Association of Public Data Users is focusing its 2012 conference on the future of public data in an environment of increasingly tight budgets and rapidly expanding technologies.
No matter the specific content of your data, rapid changes in access to “big data” are changing the types of information we can capture, and “open data” are creating tremendous new opportunities for marrying available administrative records in ways that were never tried before.
What does this mean for the data sources you care about? Census, BLS, BEA, or whatever the agency – all are exploring these trends, and you should be here helping data producers as they navigate these uncertain times!
Join us at George Washington University on September 12 and 13 as we begin to cast “The Future of the Federal Statistical System in an Era of Open Government Data.”
News
SmartData Collective Blog to Feature Entries on APDU 2012 Annual Conference Topics
Look for entries on “Ending the American Community Survey: Privacy is Not the Issue” by APDU Board Member Virginia Carlson and “Protecting Public Data” by Meta Brown next week!
No Data Update Next Week
The APDU Data Update will return September 20, 2012.
Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
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):
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Consumer Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly Interview & the Diary (November 5, 2012)
Census Bureau
American Community Survey Methods Panel Tests (September 30, 2012)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Information Collection on Foreign-Born, Migrant, Refugee & Other Mobile Populations with Current or Future Ties to the United States(November 5, 2012)
Energy Information Administration
Electricity Data Program (October 1, 2012)
Institute of Education Sciences
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 Spring Second-Grade Full Scale Collection & Third- and Fourth-Grade Tracking & Third-Grade Recruitment (October 1, 2012)
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development & Research, HUD
Survey of Manufactured (Mobile) Home Placements (October 30, 2012)
Office of Justice Programs
Census of Juveniles on Probation (October 5, 2012)
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