APDU joined a group of concerned national organizations, representing the newly formed Friends of BLS, to meet with Justin Gibbons and Stephen Steigleder, staffers for the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Subcommittee on April 25 to express our…
Susan Aud from NCES discusses the new Career/Technical Education (CTE) Statistics system on a Public Data University APDU webinar.
Based on feedback from the recent member survey, APDU is interested in engaging individual members through committees. These committees give members a chance to have a voice in their membership network, while helping carry out APDU’s mission to serve the many needs of data users.
The Census was all over the news yesterday, as changes to health insurance coverage questions raised concerns that quality of data could be degraded, especially with regard to the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, the Current Population Survey (CPS) will see changes to the wording of certain questions.
APDU is co-chairing a new effort to educate decision-makers on the work done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Friends of BLS.
A number of bills and advocacy efforts related to public and open data have been in the news in the past week.
As the appropriations process gears up on Capitol Hill, government officials, advocates, and journalists are making the case for preserving public data.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has announced that it will restore a portion of statistical detail to its Local Area Personal Income (LAPI) program.
Peg Young from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) discusses county-level data.
APDU is calling on the House and Senate to increase the total BLS budget request to $631.4 million.
Yesterday on the Introduction to Data Sets webinar with the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Ian Mead (Chief, Regional Product Division) gave an overview of BEA’s data products and answered questions from APDU members.
Good news from the Hill: the move to re-introduce an unpopular bill in committee that would affect the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey has failed.
Late last week, word leaked that House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) would present the bill for markup on Wednesday, March 12. Organized by The Census Project, APDU joined over 100 other organizations in a letter to the committee leadership urging the Census Bureau’s authorizing committee not to bring up the Poe bill, which would make ACS response voluntary, for a vote this week.