APDU Weekly – June 23, 2022

June 23, 2022

FEATURES

APDU Board Member: Welcoming Karin Orvis, Chief Statistician of the United States

Katherine Wallman, Chief Statistician of the United States 1992-2017, welcomes new Chief Statistician Karin Orvis with a perspective informed by decades of service in this key position.

NEWS

After a Long-Term Study, Evidence-Based Decisions Need Trustworthy Data

Data Literacy for Government Impact

Fed Hikes its Benchmark Interest Rate by 0.75 Percentage Point, the Biggest Increase Since 1994

Feds Taking First Steps Toward Revising Race, Ethnic Terms

House Panel Passes Bill Meant to Stop Census Misinformation

Recession Isn’t ‘Inevitable’ but Inflation Remains ‘Unacceptably High’: Janet Yellen

U.S. Comprehensive Federal Privacy Legislation Takes Major Step Forward

COVID-19 NEWS

Long COVID Is Showing Up in the Employment Data

Which Metro Areas Have Fared Better in the COVID-19 Rebound?

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

Census Bureau Announces New Business Trends and Outlook Survey 

DATA VISUALIZATION

Americans Are Saving Less Than at Any Point Since the Financial Crisis

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Economic Research Service

Data Training Webinar: Price Spreads from Farm to Consumer & Meat Price Spreads

June 29, 2022

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Your Community by the Numbers: Data for Community Development

July 12, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Introduction to American Community Survey Group Quarters Data

July 20, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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EVENTS

Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2022 AAEA Annual Meeting

July 31 – August 2, 2022

Anaheim, CA

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American Statistical Association

Joint Statistical Meetings: Statistics: A Foundation for Innovation

August 6 – 11, 2022

Washington, DC

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Association of Public Data Users

Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Annual Conference

September 20, 2022

Arlington, VA

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Economic Research Service

International Food Acquisition Research and Methods (iFARM) Workshop

October 20 – 21, 2022

University of Maryland – College Park

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Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology

2022 FCSM Research & Policy Conference

October 25 – 27, 2022

Washington, D.C.

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ICPSR

2022 ICPSR Summer Program: Stats and Methods Courses

May through August

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

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DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• PREA Data Collection Activities, 2022
• Violent Victimization by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 2017–2020

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• New York Metro Area Employment up 483,900, or 5.3 Percent, Over the Year Ended April 2022
• Noncompete Agreements, Bargaining, and Wages: Evidence From the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
• PPI Introduces Detailed Indexes for Defense and Non-defense Government Purchases
• Producer Prices for Final Demand Increased 10.8 Percent for the Year Ended in May 2022
• Real Average Hourly Earnings Down 3.0 Percent Over the 12 Months Ending May 2022

Census Bureau

• Census Bureau Releases 2020 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey
• Census Bureau Releases New Report on Aging in Asia
• High Frequency Business Survey Highlights Trends in the U.S. Economy: Two Years of the Small Business Pulse Survey
• Highlighting Census Bureau Data on Housing and Construction During American Housing Month, National Homeownership Month
• Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Operations
• Regardless of Household Type, LGBT Adults Struggled More With Mental Health Than Non-LGBT Adults

Energy Information Administration

• EIA Expects Nine New Gulf of Mexico Natural Gas and Crude Oil Fields to Start in 2022
• EIA Expects Significant Increases in Wholesale Electricity Prices This Summer
• EIA Forecasts Growing Liquid Fuels Production in Brazil, Canada, and China Through 2023
• Most Combined-Cycle Power Plants Have Duct Burners to Combust Turbine Exhaust Gases

National Center for Education Statistics

• Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) State-level Estimation for Age and Education Groups Methodology Report
• Summer Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic

National Center for Health Statistics

• QuickStats: Percentage Distribution of Heat-Related Deaths by Age Group — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2018–2020
• Update to Provisional Drug Overdose Deaths From 12 Months Ending in January 2022

U.S. Department of Labor

• U.S. Department of Labor Announces Inaugural Enterprise Data Strategy, Harnessing Data to Advance Opportunity, Equity for Nation’s Workers 

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Pew Research Center

• In the U.S. And Around the World, Inflation Is High and Getting Higher

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 Economic Analysis

• Direct Investment Surveys: BE-577, Quarterly Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad-Transactions of U.S. Reporter With Foreign Affiliate (August 15, 2022)
• Renewal of and Changes to BE-120 Benchmark Survey of Transactions in Selected Services and Intellectual Property With Foreign Persons, and Clarifying When BE-140 and BE-180 Benchmark Surveys Are Conducted (August 15, 2022)

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• National Pretrial Reporting Program (June 27, 2022)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (August 9, 2022)
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (July 6, 2022)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Oil and Gas Industry Safety Data (ISD) Program (July 18, 2022)
• Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Report (August 15, 2022)

Census Bureau

• 2023 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (July 9, 2022) 
• Annual Survey of School System Finances (June 27, 2022)
• Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records (July 21, 2022)

Institute of Education Sciences

• 2023-24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:24) Field Test-Institution Contacting and List Collection (July 5, 2022)
• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2023-24 (ECLS-K:2024) Kindergarten and First-Grade Field Test Data Collection, National Sampling, and National Recruitment
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 2022-23 through 2024-25 (July 1, 2022)
• National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) 2022-2024 (August 8, 2022)
• Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) Cycle II 2022 Main Study (June 30, 2022)
• School Pulse Panel 2022 Quarter 3 Revision (July 1, 2022)