APDU is welcoming proposals on “making sense of the new normal” using public data. With economic, public health, and governance challenges arising from COVID-19 and political polarization, trustworthy public data is vital to open and honest policy debates. EXTENDED Deadline: March 26, 2021
February 11, 2021 FEATURES Updates on the 2020 Census Quality Indicators In October 2020, the American Statistical Association released the 2020 Census Quality Indicators, a report written by a task force of census experts with a…
February 4, 2021 FEATURES Fine-Tuning the Disclosure Avoidance System to Ensure Accuracy While much of the Census Bureau?s efforts are focused on production of the first of the 2020 Census data products – the data…
Dear APDU members, Happy New Year and thank you for either renewing or joining the Association of Public Data Users (APDU). I am honored to serve as the 2021 APDU President, and I look forward to…
January 28, 2021 FEATURES Census Bureau Aims to Deliver State Population Totals by April 30 Census Bureau officials said that the agency hopes to deliver state population totals to the commerce secretary by April 30,…
January 21, 2021 FEATURES Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham Announces Retirement Dr. Dillingham wrote a message to the Bureau staff and expressed his heartfelt appreciation for their extraordinary accomplishments, especially those related to the successful…
January 14, 2021 FEATURES Census Bureau Stops Work On Trump’s Request For Unauthorized Immigrant Count The U.S. Census Bureau has halted all work on President Trump’s directive to produce a state-by-state count of unauthorized immigrants…
January 7, 2021 FEATURES Attorney Says Census Count to Determine Congressional Seats Won’t Be Done Until February An attorney in President Trump?s administration said that the census count to determine how many congressional seats each…
December 17, 2020 FEATURES House Oversight Panel Subpoenas Wilbur Ross for Census Records The House Oversight and Reform Committee issued a subpoena to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, for documents concerning…
December 10, 2020 FEATURES Census Bureau Announces Quality Assessments for 2020 Census The U.S. Census Bureau announced updated plans for releasing information about quality along with the first results from the census, including releasing an…
Candidate for President: Mary Jo Hoeksema Since January 2004, Mary Jo Hoeksema has been the Director of Government Affairs for the Population Association of America and Association of Population Centers. In addition to representing PAA and…
November 19, 2020 FEATURES Census Case That Led to Head Count Halt Heads Back to Court A month after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end the 2020 head count of every U.S.…