Welcome to Our Newest Board Member
Meeta Anand, Senior Program Director for Census & Data Equity at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, joined the APDU Board in March.
APDU Annual Conference Call for Proposals
APDU is welcoming proposals for the 2024 Annual Conference: Unlocking the Potential of Public Data. Visit the conference website for more information.
Calling All Census and ACS Data Experts
Call for Steering Committee Members for Data User Groups
In partnership with the Census Bureau, Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is soliciting applications for membership on two separate steering committees to help plan activities for engaging data users.
- The American Community Survey Data Users Group Steering Committee will have approximately 10-12 members who provide feedback to PRB and the Census Bureau on ACS-related activities, data products, dissemination channels, and/or methods.
- The new Decennial Census Data Users Group Steering Committee will have approximately 10-12 members who will help guide the development of a new online community forum. This forum will enable decennial census data users to discuss matters related to decennial census data products.
If you are interested in being considered for membership on either committee, please complete the application: https://forms.office.com/r/fg7tfNBVyu.
The deadline for applications is TODAY Thursday, April 4.
Upcoming Webinars and Events
Local Data for Local Action Webinar
Join the Massive Data Institute and Association of Public Data Users for a webinar on April 18th from 1 – 2 p.m. EST with three authors from the new issue of Cityscape presenting their research. This issue, Local Data for Local Action, was edited by Amy O’Hara highlighting how administrative data can inform housing policy.
- Michael Henderson – Using Linked Administrative Data to Profile a City’s Rental Stock and Landlords and Guide a Lead-Safe Housing Initiative
- Sarah Duda – Assessing How Gentrification and Disinvestment-Related Market Pressures Drive the Loss of Small Multiunit Housing in Chicago Neighborhoods
- Max Griswold – Analyzing the Effect of Crime-Free Housing Policies on Completed Evictions Using Spatial First Differences
Register here to join the conversation.
AI Day for Federal Statistics: A CNSTAT Public Event
The Committee on National Statistics, the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences are working together to organize an AI Day on May 2, 2024. The implications of AI for federal statistical agencies will be explored, including a look at what statistical research needs to be performed.
You can find details about the event here.
Adapting Economies to Thrive in a Changing World Event
The National Economic Research and Resilience Center at Argonne National Laboratory, is hosting an event April 30-May 2, 2024 in Lemont, Illinois. The National Economic Resilience Forum: Adapting Economies to Thrive in a Changing World will gather practitioners and researchers from across the country to focus on the successes and challenges being faced by economic development practitioners around resilience, equity, climate change, and changing economic conditions. Participants will leave with actionable ideas to implement in their communities. Attendees must register no later than April 29 (U.S. citizens) or April 22 (non-U.S. citizens), as well as complete a separate Argonne visitor registration to attend.
You can find the agenda here.
New and Notable
- Census Bureau Appoints Members to New 2030 Census Advisory Committee (Census Bureau) *Special note: The new committee includes APDU members, notably our own Immediate Past President, Mary Jo Hoeksema.
- OMB Publishes Revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (OMB)
What we’re reading this month
- Next Steps on the American Community Survey Disability Questions (Census Bureau)
- Bolstering Education Statistics to Serve the Nation (Statistics and Public Policy)
- Research Note on Linking CPS ASEC Files (Population Research and Policy Review)
- Statistical Programs of the United States Government (Office of Management and Budget)
- Census Bureau Research Explores Relationship Between Types of Social Connections and Declining Survey Response Rates and Data Quality (Census Bureau)
Advocacy
APDU recently signed on to:
- The Census Project’s letter on FY 2025 Census Bureau Funding
- The Whitman-Walker Institute’s letter on Continued Testing of SOGI Questions in Fiscal Year 2024
In Case You Missed It
Recordings are now available for our recent webinars:
- State Courts and Using Data for Good
- Our Census: Looking Back to 2020 and Forward to 2030
- Do No Harm Guide: Collecting, Analyzing, and Reporting Gender and Sexual Orientation Data
Job Opportunities
Visit us on LinkedIn for recent job postings.
Calls for Comment
Visit us on LinkedIn for the most current calls for comment on federal data sources.
We want to showcase your work
Do you have a new product, data visualization, data story, or other achievement you’d like to share? Let us know at info@apdu.org and your work might be featured in next month’s newsletter.