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Census Bureau Director John Thompson will brief Census Project stakeholders on the 2020 Census Preliminary Operational Plan, via a toll-free call on Wednesday, October 21, from 1-2 p.m. Eastern Time. Please RSVP to thecensusproject@gmail.com as soon as possible if you would like to participate. The Census Project will send call-in information to those who have registered. This is an important opportunity to hear firsthand about significant new operations and methods for the 2020 Census and to pose questions and concerns to the Director.
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U.S. Census Bureau Director John H. Thompson has named six new members and a chairwoman to the Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee, chartered to provide advice on the design, operation and implementation of Census Bureau programs. Excitingly, one of those new members is APDU Board Member Kathy Pettit.
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Amid market volatility, looming interest rate increases and an uncertain outlook for jobs and incomes, now is not the time to hobble our ability to monitor and understand the economy. So why is Congress eyeing further cuts to the Bureau of Labor Statistics budget? Proposed Senate legislation would cut the BLS by another $13 million in 2016, after its real annual spending has already fallen more than 10 percent ($72 million) over the last five years.
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That’s why the Department of Labor is convening a symposium later this year to figure out how to get better. Government agencies are often slow to adapt to how the real economy changes. In this case, though, the people in the government who collect data are intensely conscious of the fact that they’re not even asking the right questions anymore.
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The U.S. Department of Education has released college-by-college graduation rates for low-income students receiving federal grants, for the first time ever?information advocates, and Congress, have long demanded. But there turns out to be a problem: A lot of the numbers are wrong.
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The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Giselle Guzman, founder and chief executive officer of Now-Cast Data Corporation, an economic analytics company based in New York. Guzman discussed how economists only recently could have the ability to study the economy in real time, as well as how real-time economic insights could help bring about a more stable, peaceful world.
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Visualization of the Week
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Real estate company Trulia has created a series of heat maps illustrating the density of noise complaints for major cities. The visualizations use five years worth of data from city police departments, some of which is detailed enough for Trulia to map specific types of noise complaints, such as complaints about barking dogs and ice cream trucks in New York City. Trulia created the visualizations to better understand how noise levels might disproportionately affect different communities, which could influence where a person decides to buy or rent a home.
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Notable Data Publications
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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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GOVERNMENT
NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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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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Administration for Children and Families
- Annual Survey of Refugees (Form ORR-9) (December 14, 2015)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- International Price Program U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes (November 9, 2015)
- Pilot and Field Studies for Bureau of Justice Statistics Data Collection Activities (December 7, 2015)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
- Floriculture Survey (November 12, 2015)
National Center for Health Statistics
- The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) (December 7, 2015)
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