APDU Weekly – January 26, 2023

January 26, 2023

FEATURE

OMB Wants Your Feedback: Policy Revisions on Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s Office of the Chief Statistician has released an initial set of recommended revisions to the 1997 Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 on Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. The revisions were proposed by the Federal Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards and are aimed at better reflecting the racial and ethnic diversity of the U.S. population. Read the full post here.

NEWS

A Look Ahead: 2023

Age Matters

Biden-Harris Administration Unveils Better Data Collection Plans for LGBTQI+ Community

More and Better Uses Ahead for Governments’ Financial Data

Nurse Practitioners, Ushers, Cooks Among Fastest Growing Occupations

States Where Americans Are Struggling to Pay the Bills

Union Membership Fell to Record Low in 2022, Bureau of Labor Statistics Says

US Union Membership Rate Hits All-Time Low Despite Campaigns

White House Aims to Reflect the Environment in Economic Data

Wholesale Inflation Drops Much More Than Expected in December; Retail Sales Drop 1.1%

COVID-19 NEWS

Coffee, Community and the COVID Aftermath

Omicron Subvariant Gains More Ground in U.S. To Account For 49.1% Of New COVID Cases, CDC Data Show

US Proposes Once-A-Year COVID Shots for Most Americans

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

State Energy Data System: Motor Gasoline, Aviation Gasoline, and Fuel Ethanol Through 2021

State Energy Portal: Updated Analyses and Quick Facts

DATA VISUALIZATION

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UPCOMING WEBINARS

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

Diversity and STEM

New Data from NCSES

January 31, 2023

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM ET

More Information

Census Bureau

2020 Census Race and

Ethnicity Data: The Detailed DHC-A Proof of Concept

January 31, 2023

3:00 – 4:00 PM ET

More Information

National Conference of State Legislatures 

Tips on Using ACS Data for Public Policy Work

February 3, 2023

2:00 PM ET

More Information

National Center for Health Statistics 

Reporting on the Nation’s Health in Health, United States: Annual Perspective

February 16, 2023

2:00 PM ET

More Information

EVENTS

American Statistical Association 

American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Practice

February 2 – 4, 2023 

San Francisco, CA 

More Information

Federal Chief Data Officers Council

2023 CDO Council Public Meeting

February 10, 2023

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

New Orleans, LA

More Information

Census Bureau 

2023 Local Employment

Dynamics Partnership Virtual Workshop

March 28 – 30, 2023

Virtual

More Information

DATA PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS 

Purdue University Center for Food Demand Analysis & Sustainability

• U.S. Food Insecurity

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• December Jobless Rates up in 7 States, Down in 5; Payroll Jobs Down in 1 State
• Import Fuel Prices up 19.4 Percent From December 2021 to December 2022
• Looking at Recent Price Increases for Baby Food
• November Job Openings Rates and Layoffs and Discharges Rates Down in 8 States
• Producer Prices for Final Demand Increased 6.2 Percent From December 2021 to December 2022
• Real Average Hourly Earnings Down 1.7 Percent From December 2021 to December 2022
• The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Workers With a Criminal History
• Union Membership Rate Fell by 0.2 Percentage Point To 10.1 Percent in 2022
• U.S. Export Prices up 5.0 Percent Over the Year Ended December 2022

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• North American Transborder Freight up 13.9% in October 2022 from October 2021
• North American Transborder Freight up 22.6% in September 2022 from September 2021
• Third Quarter 2022 Average Air Fare Increases 12.7% from Third Quarter 2021

Census Bureau

• 2020 Census Count Question Resolution Operation Errata Tables Released
• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release
• Nearly One in Three Mississippians Eligible for Food Assistance

Energy Information Administration

• Daily Natural Gas Spot Prices in Western United States Exceed $50.00/MMBtu in December
• EIA Forecasts Lower Wholesale U.S. Natural Gas Prices in 2023 and 2024
• Increasing Renewables Likely to Reduce Coal and Natural Gas Generation Over Next Two Years
• Nuclear Power Plants Generated 68% Of France’s Electricity in 2021

National Center For Education Service

• Money Matters: Exploring Young Adults’ Financial Literacy and Financial Discussions With Their Parents

National Center for Health Statistics

• Latest Report on the Nation’s Health Focuses on Pre-pandemic Health Disparities
• Maternal Characteristics and Infant Outcomes by Hispanic Subgroup and Nativity: United States, 2021
• Opioids Prescribed to Adults at Discharge From Emergency Departments: United States, 2017–2020
• Problems Paying Medical Bills: United States, 2021
• QuickStats: Birth Rates for Females Aged 15–19 Years, by Age Group — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1991–2021

MEDIA 

Bloomberg

• More Young Americans Are Dying, But Not From Vaccines

The Marshall Project 

• It’s Not Just a Police Problem, Americans Are Opting Out of Government Jobs

FEDERAL RULEMAKING AND 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):

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) (February 21, 2023)
• Occupational Requirements Survey (February 17, 2023) 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Confidential Close Call Transit Data (March 24, 2023)
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics – Confidential Close Call Transit Data (March 20, 2023)

Census Bureau

• Annual Business Survey (February 22, 2023)
• Housing Vacancy Survey (February 14, 2023)
• Monthly Retail Surveys (February 12, 2023)
• National Survey of Children’s Health (February 6, 2023)

Economic Research Service

• Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data (February 21, 2023)

Energy Information Administration

• Coal Markets Reporting System (March 14, 2023)
• Natural Gas Imports and Exports (March 14, 2023)

Institute for Education Sciences

• Evaluation of Full-Service Community Schools: Early Implementation Data Collection (March 20, 2023)
• Evaluation of the REL West Supporting Early Reading Comprehension Through Teacher Study Groups Toolkit (March 13, 2023)
• National Evaluation of Career and Technical Education Under Perkins (March 6, 2023)
• Visual Representations for Proportional Reasoning: Impacts of a Teacher Professional Development Program for Multilingual Learners and Other Students (March 20, 2023)

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• Agricultural Resource Management Phase 3 Economic Surveys (February 21, 2023)
• Agricultural Resources Management Survey and Chemical Use Surveys (February 21, 2023)
• Aquaculture Surveys (March 6, 2023)

National Center for Education Statistics 

• Longitudinal, Cross-Sectional, and International Studies (February 17, 2023)
• National Center for Education Statistics – National Teacher and Principal Survey of 2023-2024 (NTPS 2023-24) Data Collection (March 24, 2023)
• National Center for Education Statistics – School Pulse Panel Preliminary Field Activities (February 2, 2023)

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• 2023 Survey of Doctorate Recipients (February 6, 2023)
• Survey of Earned Doctorates (February 7, 2023)