APDU Weekly – April 7, 2022

April 7, 2022

FEATURES

2022 APDU/CIC Virtual Symposium

May 3 – 5, 2022

26 Days Away – Register Today

APDU and CIC have released the draft agenda for the Symposium, featuring a focus on equity and resiliency. This year, participants can hear from experts connected with two leading organizations on the effective use of data for transformational change. The Association for Public Data Users (APDU) and Community Indicators Consortium (CIC) are combining dates for a virtual symposium.

Both CIC and APDU members share a vital concern with the responsible and rigorous collection, creation, distribution, preservation, and analysis of data. Take a look at the updated agenda and register today!

Webinar: Advocate on Data Concerns to the Census Bureau

April 19, 2022

3:00 – 4:00 PM ET

Researchers have many questions about the data coming out of the Census Bureau. With pandemic-induced data collection challenges, data privacy measures, and other logistical and technological issues, there are many issues to pay attention to. There are also many opportunities to provide feedback to the Census Bureau, including limited-time comment opportunities such as the 2020 Census Count Question Resolution Operation (CQR). Attend this webinar sponsored by the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and Association of Public Data Users to learn more!

For more in-depth discussions about the Census Bureau, consider attending the virtual APDU/CIC Data Symposium on May 3 – 5, 2022 and the C2ER/LMI Institute Annual Conference in Columbus, OH and online on June 13 – 16, 2022!

NEWS

Leveraging Federal Statistics to Strength Evidence-based Decision-making

Census Bureau Director on ‘Transformational’ Changes — And SXSW

Congress May Create Massive Program to Collect College Student Data

Seven Decades Later, the 1950 Census Bares Its Secrets

America’s Major Metro Areas Are Shrinking

These 5 Industries Have the Biggest Gender Pay Gaps—Here’s Why

COVID-19 NEWS

Education Research Has Changed Under COVID. Here’s How the Feds Can Catch Up

COVID Weighing Less and Less on the U.S. Job Market

‘A Rollercoaster’: People of Color Made Economic Gains Last Decade, but Pandemic Threatens Progress

Public Health Employee Survey Reveals a Workforce Crisis

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

1950 Census Records

Esri Releases Annual Update of Ready-to-Use US Census Bureau Data for ArcGIS Users

This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

DATA VISUALIZATION

Visualizing the World’s Loss of Forests Since the Ice-Age

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Association of Public Data Users and LMI Institute

Microsoft Power BI®: Creating an Interactive Text and Data Visualization Tool for a 21st Century Workforce

April 13, 2022

2:00 – 3:00 PM ET

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The Census Project

Fiscal Year 2023 Census Bureau Budget Presentation

April 18, 2022

1:30 – 2:30 PM ET

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Association of Public Data Users and C2ER

Advocate on Data Concerns to the Census Bureau

April 19, 2022

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Exploring Census Data: Services Sector

April 28, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Top 3 Tools Tour

April 28, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Creating Customized Tables: Microdata Access Tool in data.census.gov

April 21, 2022

2:00 – 3:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

U.S. Earnings Dynamics: Inequality, Mobility, and Volatility

April 20, 2022

1:30 – 3:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Getting Started with American Community Survey Data in R and Python

April 13, 2022

2:00 – 3:00 PM ET

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National Science Foundation

Resources for State-Level Science and Engineering Decision-Making

April 21, 2022

2:00 – 3:00 PM ET

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EVENTS

Population Association of America

2022 Annual Meeting

April 6 – 9, 2022

Atlanta, GA & Online

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National Agricultural Statistics Service

2022 Spring Data Users’ Meeting 

April 19, 2022

University of Chicago – Gleacher Center and Online

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Association of Public Data Users

Data Symposium 2022, A Future For Good: How Public Data Helps Us Create Resiliency and Equity for All

May 3 – 4, 2022

Virtual Conference

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DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Employment up in 154 Out of 389 Metropolitan Areas From January 2021 to January 2022

Census Bureau

• National School Lunch Program Still Important Part of Safety Net
• Public Can Access Census Records 72 Years After Each Decennial Census
• Today’s National Archives Release of 1950 Census Offers a Peek Into Early Days of Famous People
• Small Business Pulse Survey Phase 8 Weekly Data Release
• Census Bureau Releases New Annual Capital Expenditures for Robotic Equipment

Economic Research Service

• Spending Gap Between Full-Service and Quick-Service Restaurants Widened During Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
• Racial and Ethnic Diversification Will Likely Shape U.S. Food Demand and Diet Quality
• Producers’ Net Costs Influence Offers to USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program

Energy Information Administration

• EIA Explores Effects of Not Building Future Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines
• Nearly Half of U.S. Households Use LED Bulbs for All or Most of Their Indoor Lighting
• Drought Effects on Hydroelectricity Generation in Western U.S. Differed by Region in 2021
• EIA Data Show That by 2020, U.S. Households Had More Efficient Lighting, Larger TVs, and More Refrigerators

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• US Farmers Expect to Plant More Soybeans and Less Corn Acreage

National Center for Health Statistics

• QuickStats: Percentage of Office-Based Physicians Who Had Telephone or Internet/Email Consults with Patients — National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, United States, 2018 and 2020

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Science, Engineering, and Health Graduate Enrollment: U.S. Part-Time Enrollment Increases as Full-Time Temporary Visa Holder Enrollment Declines
• Innovation Data from the 2019 Annual Business Survey
• Using Mechanical Turk in Study of Individual Innovation
• America’s Datahub Consortium: Seeing — And Understanding — The Entire

MEDIA

The Hill

• Nearly Three-Quarters of Us Counties Have More Businesses Than Before Pandemic: Analysis

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Center for American Progress

• The Economic, Educational, and Health-Related Costs of Being a Woman

Pew Stateline

• The Census Missed Some Folks. These Cities Want Them Counted.

FEDERAL RULEMAKING AND CALLS FOR COMMENT

APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. 

Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Consumer Price Index Housing Survey (April 15, 2022)
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (May 2, 2022)

Census Bureau

• 2020 Post-Census Group Quarters Review (April 21, 2022)
• Business Trends and Outlook Survey (April 26, 2022)
• Ask U.S. Panel Pilot (May 5, 2022)
• National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (May 13, 2022)
• Certification of Identity (Form BC-300) (May 17, 2022)

Institute of Educational Science

• Evaluation of the Implementation of the Statewide Family Engagement Centers (April 15, 2022)
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 2022-23 through 2024-25 (April 26, 2022)
• EDFacts Data Collection School Years 2022-23, 2023-24, and 2024-25 (With 2021-22 Continuation) (April 28, 2022)
• 2024 Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS 2024) Main Study Recruitment and Field Test (May 10, 2022)

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• Vegetable Surveys Program (May 31, 2022)

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Higher Education Research and Development Survey (May 31, 2022)