Senate Confirms Erica Groshen to Head Bureau of Labor Statistics
Federal Reserve Bank of New York economist Erica Groshen will take the reins at BLS, which is part of the Labor Department, after senators unanimously approved her appointment alongside a handful of other positions. Read more here.
Podcasts Released on the LMI Win-Win Network CoP
The Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is committed to increasing the use of LMI, workforce information, and economic data to inform workforce development decision-making at the state and local level. In the last few years, ETA has produced a catalogue of key data sources, a guide to state and local workforce data, and a tool to facilitate access to state and local projections. Now ETA is releasing via the LMI Win-Win Network Community of Practice (CoP) a series of podcasts that provide an overview and step-by-step instructions for using a variety of data sources and tools. Read and listen here.
Census Bureau Offers First-Ever Large Scale Look at American Management Practices
The U.S. Census Bureau has released findings from the Management and Organizational Practices Survey, funded in part by the National Science Foundation and jointly developed with researchers from Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the London School of Economics. The survey, a supplement to the Annual Survey of Manufactures, is the first ever from the Census Bureau on management practices. It is based on reported data from more than 30,000 of the approximately 50,000 manufacturing plants that were surveyed in the 2010 Annual Survey of Manufactures. Learn more here.
Cyndi Lauper Joins HUD to Spotlight Local Efforts to End Homelessness Through One-Night Homeless Counts
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Cyndi Lauper are joining the effort to “Make Everyone Count,” a national campaign to support local one-night counts of homeless persons and families. Cyndi Lauper and the True Colors Fund’s Forty to None Project produced a national public service announcement to encourage viewers to contribute their time to gather needed data on the scale of homelessness throughout the U.S. Learn more here.
NAS Holds Workshop on the Design of the National Children’s Study
On January 11, the National Academy of Sciences’ (NAS) Committee on National Statistics and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families held a day-long meeting to begin discussions regarding the sampling design of the National Children’s Study (NCS). The Senate Appropriations Committee directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enter into an agreement with the NAS to review the sampling strategy of the NCS. Learn more here.
O*NET Releases Related Occupations Matrix
The Related Occupations database has been completely updated, with a new methodology that uses recent occupations and collected data. The database includes two sets of related occupations: to help “Career Changers” transfer their experience, and to help “Career Starters” with career exploration. Take a look at it here.
BTS Releases Pocket Guide to Transportation 2013
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), has published the Pocket Guide to Transportation 2013 – a quick reference guide to significant transportation data. Access the pocket guide here.
Government and the Micro-Data Economy
The release of weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration into the public domain changed scores of industries and even created a new one: the weather industry. That was followed by the release of GPS data, which changed our lives and brought us all of the location services we can’t live without today. In each case, entrepreneurs seized the opportunity to turn a new asset class of government-collected data into life-changing innovations. Read more here.
Notable Data Publications
Each week, the APDU Data Update identifies recent statistical data releases of interest to APDU members.
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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):
National Science Foundation
Higher Education Research and Development Survey (March 11, 2013)
Survey of Earned Doctorates (March 11, 2013)
Office of Justice Programs
Annual Survey of Jails (March 8, 2013)
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