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APDU Conference Call for Proposals
The 2018 APDU Annual Conference (to be held on July 17-18, 2018 in Arlington, VA) invites APDU members and friends to submit proposals for presentations and panels related to our theme, ?Shaping the Future: The Promise of Public Data to Inform Public & Private Sector Decisions?. The conference, to be held in Arlington, VA in July 2018, will bring together data users and data producers for conversations and presentations across a wide variety of data and statistical topics.
Deadline: January 31, 2018
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Justice Dept. Pushes for Citizenship Question on Census
The Justice Department is pushing for a question on citizenship to be added to the 2020 census, a move that observers say could depress participation by immigrants who fear that the government could use the information against them. That, in turn, could have potentially large ripple effects for everything the once-a-decade census determines ? from how congressional seats are distributed around the country to where hundreds of billions of federal dollars are spent.
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Celebrating 75 Years of BLS Regional Offices
What started as a way to provide analysis on government price controls and wage increases has evolved and blossomed into an integral part of BLS. The pioneering staff from BLS past and the dedicated staff of today allows the BLS to produce gold standard economic statistics.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Updates to Census Bureau TIGERWeb
The TIGERweb application contains the latest version of the geographic extent of legally defined geographic areas as reported, generally reflecting the boundaries of governmental units in effect as of January 1, 2017 (BAS 2018), or legal and statistical area boundaries that have been adjusted and/or corrected since the 2010 Census.
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ACS 2016 Data Now Available in Public Insight
The American Community Survey (ACS) 2016 data is now available in the Public Insight Data Catalog. Registered users can browse this data for free using the Data Browser tool. We hope you will join the over 2,000 users that take advantage of this free service.
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Visualization of the Week
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The Most Valuable Companies of All-Time
Before speculative bubbles could form around Dotcom companies (late-1990s) or housing prices (mid-2000s), some of the first financial bubbles formed from the prospect of trading with faraway lands. Looking back, it?s pretty easy to see why. Companies like the Dutch East India Company (known in Dutch as the VOC, or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) were granted monopolies on trade, and they engaged in daring voyages to mysterious and foreign places. View this chart at the Visual Capitalist to learn more about just how large the Dutch East India Company was.
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Notable Data Publications
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GOVERNMENT
NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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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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Bureau of Justice Statistics
- 2018 Police Public Contact Survey (February 20, 2018)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Occupational Requirements Survey (February 26, 2018)
- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (February 26, 2018)
Census Bureau
- Annual Business Survey (January 25, 2018)
- Survey of Housing Starts, Sales & Completions (January 25, 2018)
Energy Information Administration
- Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (February 20, 2018)
National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
- Agricultural Labor Survey (February 20, 2018)
National Center for Education Statistics
- Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS 2019) Main Study Recruitment and Field Test (January 25, 2018)
National Center for Health Statistics
- National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (January 26, 2018)
- National Survey of Family Growth (February 26, 2018)
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