APDU Weekly – May 26, 2022

May 26, 2022

FEATURES

Save the Date: 2022 Annual Conference

APDU is hosting the 2022 Annual Conference in Arlington, VA on September 20, 2022.

NEWS

APDU Vice President Reviews APDU Symposium Session on Census Data Products: What Would Your Billboard Say?

A Blueprint for Modernizing the Consumer Price Index

Senate Report Highlights Lack of Government Data on Ransomware Payments 

U.S. Birthrate Ticks Up 1 Percent, Halting a Steady Decline

Federal Reserve Board Issues Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2021 report 

Measuring Changes in Shelter Prices in the Consumer Price Index 

2020 Census Undercounts in Six States, Overcounts in Eight 

These 14 States Had Significant Miscounts in the 2020 Census 

COVID-19 NEWS

White House COVID Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha Discusses the Growing Virus Surge 

Here Is What One Million Covid Deaths In The U.S. Looks Like

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

New Interactive Data Tool Shows Characteristics of Those Who Receive Assistance From Government Programs 

DATA VISUALIZATION

The Cost of Groceries in America Rockets

UPCOMING WEBINARS

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

NCSES Data Tools and Researcher Forum Webinar

June 1, 2022

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET

More Information 

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Update on the NCVS Instrument Redesign: Results from a National Field Test

June 7, 2022

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET

More Information

Census Bureau

How to Find Which Surveys Have the Data You Need

June 7, 2022

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

More Information 

Data Foundation and Agree Initiative

Models for Modernizing Agriculture Data Infrastructure: Lessons Learned from Data Innovation in Other Sectors

June 9, 2022

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET

More Information 

Census Bureau

How to Access Education Data

June 23, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

More Information 

Census Bureau

Your Community by the Numbers: Data for Community Development

July 12, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

More Information

EVENTS

Association for Institutional Research (AIR)

2022 AIR Forum

June 6 – 9, 2022

Phoenix, AZ

More Information

American Statistical Association

2022 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS)

June 7 – 10, 2022

Pittsburgh, PA

More Information

American Statistical Association

Joint Statistical Meetings: Statistics: A Foundation for Innovation

August 6 – 11, 2022

Washington, DC

More Information

ICPSR

2022 ICPSR Summer Program: Stats and Methods Courses

May through August

Virtual and/or In-Person in Ann Arbor, MI

More Information

DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• New Statistics on the Digital Economy

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Federal Justice Statistics, 2020

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• 61.8 Percent of Recent High School Graduates Enrolled in College in October 2021
• April Jobless Rates Down in 13 States; Payroll Jobs up in 11 States 
• Employment Increased Over the Year in 147 Metropolitan Areas in March 2022
• Producer Prices for Goods up 16.3 Percent Over the Year Ended April 2022
• Recovering From the Pandemic: A Bright Outlook for the Personal Care Service Industry
• The Challenges of Seasonal Adjustment for the Current Employment Statistics Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Unemployment Rates Lower in 386 Metropolitan Areas in March 2022 Than a Year Earlier

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Transportation Services Contributed 5.4% to U.S. GDP in 2020; a Decline from 5.9% in 2019

Census Bureau

• Household Pulse Survey Phase 3.4 Monthly Data Release
• Per Pupil Spending Continues to Increase in 2020
• U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2020 Undercount and Overcount Rates by State and the District of Columbia

Economic Research Service

• COVID-19 Working Paper: Single Commodity Export Dependence and the Impacts of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Farmers Report Soil-Related Resource Concerns on About Half of Soybean, Wheat, Cotton, and Oat Fields

Energy Information Administration

• EIA Expects Solar and Wind to Be Larger Sources of U.S. Electricity Generation This Summer
• EIA Product Highlight: Natural Gas Storage Dashboard
• EIA Product Highlight: Status of U.S. Nuclear Outages
• FERC Approves New Natural Gas Pipeline Projects to Increase U.S. Exports
• U.S. Retail Diesel Prices Increase to Over $6 per Gallon in the Northeast

Government Accountability Office

• Tax Equity: Lack of Data Limits Ability to Analyze Effects of Tax Policies on Households by Demographic Characteristics

National Center for Health Statistics

• Births Rose for the First Time in Seven Years in 2021
• QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Felt That Crime Makes It Unsafe to Walk, by Sex and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Definitions of Research and Development: An Annotated Compilation of Official Sources

Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics 

• Earnings of Men Aged 20–59, 1989–2019
• Earnings of Men Aged 20–59, by Age Group and Race/Ethnicity, 2019–2020
• Earnings of Women Aged 20–59, 1989–2019
• Earnings of Women Aged 20–59, by Age Group and Race/Ethnicity, 2019–2020

MEDIA

Forbes

• U.S. GDP By State and Fastest Growing States by GDP Growth

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Brookings

• Did the Pandemic Advance New Suburbanization?
• How Does the Consumer Price Index Account for the Cost of Housing?

Pew Research Center 

• More than Half of Americans Live Within an Hour of Extended Family
• New, Emerging Jobs and the Green Economy are Boosting Demand for Analytical Skills

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 Justice Statistics

• National Inmate Survey in Jails (NIS-4J) (June 17, 2022)
• National Pretrial Reporting Program (June 27, 2022)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• American Time Use Survey (June 13, 2022)
• Multiple Worksite Report (MWR) and the Report of Federal Employment and Wages (RFEW) (June 21, 2022)
• Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Business Supplement (June 16, 2022)

Census Bureau

• Annual Survey of School System Finances (June 27, 2022)
• Current Population Survey, School Enrollment Supplement (June 3, 2022)

Health and Human Services

• National Directory of New Hires (June 2, 2022)  

Institute of Education Sciences

• 2023-24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:24) Field Test-Institution Contacting and List Collection (July 5, 2022)
• Connecting Adults to Success: Career Navigator Training Study (CATS Study) (June 15, 2022)
• National Household Education Survey 2023 (NHES:2023) Full-Scale Data Collection (June 1, 2022)
• NCES System Clearance for Cognitive, Pilot, and Field Test Studies 2022-2025 (June 9, 2022)
• Request for Information on the Existence and Use of Large Datasets To Address Education Research Questions (May 31, 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)