Features   Apply Now for ACS Data Products Redesign Group In partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is soliciting applications for membership in a new American Community Survey (ACS) Data… 

Features     Census Project Briefing on 2020 Census Operational Plan 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… 

Features   Census Bureau Seeks Tribal Leaders Input for 2020 Census Recently, Census Bureau officials met with representatives from the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes in Minnesota to discuss issues that affect American Indian and… 

Features   Census Releases Updated Workforce Data Tools The U.S. Census Bureau released Version 1.2 of the LED Extraction Tool and QWI Explorer.  This update makes the following functionality available: LED Extraction Tool: The Beta… 

Features   CBPP: BLS Cuts Impair Policymakers The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities recently explained that House and Senate bills would seriously underfund core Census Bureau activities, potentially weakening the quality of data on… 

Features   GSA Announces Data Hackathon on 10/16 Coders, designers, engineers, data scientists, and SMEs from industry, academia, and government are all invited! Pre-determined teams are welcome and cash prizes will be awarded to the… 

2015 Annual Conference Success APDU would like to thank all APDU members, speakers, and conference attendees for contributing to a successful Annual Conference. Keynote speaker Bob Groves of Georgetown University gave an interesting and informative… 

NEXT WEEK!!!   Agenda | Register   Features   BLS News Release Survey The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces 165 national and 700 regional news releases each year. The format of these news… 

  Agenda | Register   Features   BLS Letter of Support Friends of Labor Statistics asks that Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) users directly contact your Senators and Representatives to help prevent BLS from having… 

  Agenda | Register   Features   Census Plans 2016 Test Run for New Tech Tools The Census Bureau has big tech plans for its 2020 count, and it?s organizing a trial run to make… 

    Agenda | Register | Reserve A Room | Be A Sponsor   Features   Reductions in Data Collection Funding Have Had Impact In the current federal budget climate, data collection is poised to… 

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