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December 19, 2019 FEATURES Save the Date: 2020 APDU Annual Conference The 2020 APDU Annual Conference will be held on July 29 – 30, 2020 at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, VA. Click on…
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December 12, 2019 FEATURE Schatz, Murkowski Urge Passage of Bipartisan Resolution to Recognize Critical Role of Census, Importance of Full and Accurate Count; APDU Endorses Letter U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai?i) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)…
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December 5, 2019 FEATURE Census Gets Funding Boost in Stopgap Bill The stopgap funding measure Congress passed Thursday provides $7.3 billion for the Census Bureau, giving next year?s count the resources some lawmakers and advocates…
Webinar Q & A: How Will New Census Bureau Privacy Measures Change 2020 Decennial Census Data?
On November 18, APDU hosted a webinar on new measures taken by the Census Bureau to protect respondent privacy in the decennial census known as “differential privacy.” Below are follow-up answers to questions from the question and answer portion of the webinar.
2019 APDU Candidate Statements
Candidate for Treasurer: Mauricio Ortiz, Chief, Regional Income Division, US Bureau of Economic Analysis I have served as Treasurer of APDU for the last four years while I have continued to work for the U.S.…
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November 21, 2019 FEATURE House Passes CR to Keep Govt Open Until Dec. 20 A continuing resolution introduced by Democrats in the House would keep the government open until Dec. 20, and ensure a 3.1%…
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November 14, 2019 FEATURE Balancing Privacy and Accuracy: New Opportunity for Disclosure Avoidance Analysis The Census Bureau released demonstration data products designed to help the data user community better understand the disclosure avoidance system for…
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November 7, 2019 FEATURE Upcoming APDU Webinars C2ER, LMI Institute, and APDU Webinar Introducing the Census Bureau’s Business Formation Statistics November 14, 2019 2:00 PM ? 3:00 PM EST More information Pricing: FREE APDU Webinar…
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October 31, 2019 FEATURE Computers Have an Unlikely Origin Story: the 1890 Census The inventor of punched cards, which led to the first computers and companies like IBM, was aiming to solve a gnarly problem…
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October 24, 2019 FEATURE Ron Nakao Awarded the 2019 William H. Flanigan Award for Distinguished Service as an ICPSR Official Representative Ron Nakao, Social Science Data Librarian and Economics Librarian at Stanford and APDU board…
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October 17, 2019 FEATURE Researchers Question Census Bureau?s New Approach to Privacy The Census Bureau has announced that it would add statistical ?noise? to the 2020 data, essentially tinkering with its own numbers to preserve…
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October 10, 2019 FEATURE Where Does the Federal Data Strategy Go from Here? Evidence Panel Members Revisit Ideas While the administration has moved ahead with other steps outlined in the Foundations on Evidence-Based Policy-making Act,…