APDU Weekly – August 4, 2022

August 4, 2022

FEATURES

Share Your Work! 2022 Annual Conference Poster Session

APDU warmly invites you to submit a poster for the 2022 Annual Conference.

Our association is full of members concerned with the production, dissemination, and use of public data. They are pushing boundaries in public data deployment. Public data covers a wide range of topics and research methods, so we welcome a variety of poster topics. 

Registration Now Open: Power BI Basics Training

We are excited to invite you to participate in our Power BI Basics training. Following her April 2022 Webinar Microsoft Power BI®: Creating an Interactive Text and Data Visualization Tool for a 21st Century Workforce, instructor Cynthia Sundahl, MPA, MA will be offering a 4 session virtual training that takes attendees through the steps to create a report and share it on the web.

INSTRUCTOR: Cynthia Sundahl, MPA, MA, Analyst, California Employment Development Department

NEWS

APDU Board Member: Federal Funds Distributed Using Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Personal Income Statistics

Are We in a Recession? It Doesn’t Matter, Fed Official Says: ‘I’m Focused on the Inflation Data’ 

Catching up on Recent BLS Activities

Inflation Figure That the Fed Follows Closely Hits Highest Level Since January 1982 

It’s GDP… the Remix!

Listen: Census Bureau’s Data Modernization Path to 2030 

Most Millennials, Especially Latinos and Black People, Are Staying Close to Home. What Does That Mean for Economic Opportunity?

The 8 Economists Who Decide if the U.S. Is in a Recession

COVID-19 NEWS

Doctors with Disabilities Push for Change as Long COVID Affects Their Workforce 

How Millions of Americans Suffering From Long COVID Can Find Support 

Millions of Americans Have Long COVID. Many of Them Are No Longer Working

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

Office of Financial Research Pilots Cutting-edge Data Hub to Assist with Climate-risk Assessments 

DATA VISUALIZATION

Mapped: The Salary You Need to Buy a Home in 50 U.S. Cities

UPCOMING WEBINARS

National Institutes of Health

“A Conversation with NIH” Webinar Registration – DMS Policy Webinar 1 of 2

August 11, 2022

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Exploring Census Data Webinar: Public Sector

August 18, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau 

Data for Congressional and State Legislative Districts

August 25, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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Center for Data Innovation

How Can the United States Address the Data Divide?

August 30, 2022

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

The American Community Survey: A Comprehensive Look

September 1, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Statistics in Schools and American Community Survey Data for Classrooms

September 7, 2022

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau

Data Access and Cross Tabulation Using MDAT

September 8, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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EVENTS

American Statistical Association

Joint Statistical Meetings: Statistics: A Foundation for Innovation

August 6 – 11, 2022

Washington, DC

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National Center for Education Statistics

2022 NCES STATS-DC Data Conference, “DATA for DEIA: Using Data to Improve Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility”

August 8 – 12, 2022

Virtual

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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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Community Indicators Consortium

The Future of: Communities – CIC Impact Summit

September 20 – 21, 2022

Arlington, VA

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Future of Work and PMP Summit

September 22 – 23, 2022

Arlington, VA

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APDU Virtual Training

Power BI Basics

September 27, 29 and October 4, 6, 2022

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET

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Economic Research Service

International Food Acquisition Research and Methods (iFARM) Workshop

October 20 – 21, 2022

College Park, MD

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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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DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities, 2022

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Compensation Costs for Private Industry Workers up 5.5 Percent From June 2021 to June 2022
• Employment Up in 47 States Over the Year Ending June 2022
• Growth Trends for Selected Occupations Considered at Risk from Automation
• Productivity Rises in 37 of 46 Wholesale and Retail Trade Industries in 2021
• Unemployment Rates Lower in All 50 States and the District of Columbia from June 2021 to June 2022

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• BTS Updates Datasets to National Transportation Atlas Database
• North American Transborder Freight up 28.3% in May 2022 from May 2021

Census Bureau

• Census Bureau Releases COVID-19 Economic Brief
• Census Bureau Releases New Occupations, Earnings and Job Characteristics Report
• How Food Service, Transportation Workers Fared Before Pandemic
• Wealth Inequality in the U.S. by Household Type

Economic Research Service

• Poultry Expected to Continue Leading Global Meat Imports as Demand Rises

Energy Information Administration

• Battery Systems on the U.S. Power Grid Are Increasingly Used to Respond to Price
• Extending Investment Tax Credits Through 2050 Increases U.S. Solar Generation by 10%
• Several Refining Projects are Scheduled in Asia and the Middle East
• Small-Scale Solar Is Changing Hourly Utility Electricity Demand in New England
• The U.S. Power Grid Added 15 GW of Generating Capacity in the First Half of 2022

National Center for Education Statistics

• Measuring Student Safety: New Data on Bullying Rates at School
• Student Reports of Bullying: Results from the 2019 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey

National Center for Health Statistics

• Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Quarterly Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January 2021–March 2022
• More People Have Health Insurance, Early 2022 Data Show
• Physical, Speech, Rehabilitative, or Occupational Therapy Use Among Adults Aged 25–64, by Veteran Status: United States, 2019–2020
• Urban-Rural Differences in Drug Overdose Deaths

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Federally Funded R&D Centers Report 6% Increase in R&D Spending in FY 2021

Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics 

• State and Local Government Employees Without Social Security Coverage: What Percentage Will Earn Pension Benefits That Fall Short of Social Security Equivalence?

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Brookings

• White and Youth Population Losses Contributed Most to the Nation’s Growth Slowdown, New Census Data Reveals

Pew Research Center

• Home Births Rose 19% In 2020 as Pandemic Hit the U.S.
• Majority of U.S. Workers Changing Jobs Are Seeing Real Wage Gains

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

• BE-13, Survey of New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (August 28, 2022)
• Direct Investment Surveys: BE-12, Benchmark Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (August 30, 2022)
• 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

• Reinstatement, With Change, of a Previously Approved Collection for Which Approval Has Expired: National Inmate Survey in Jails (NIS-4J) (August 19, 2022)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (August 9, 2022)
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (August 30, 2022)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Report (August 15, 2022)

Census Bureau

• Annual Survey of School System Finances (August 14, 2022)
• Generic Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and Evaluations (September 26, 2022)
• Generic Clearance for Questionnaire Pretesting Research (August 29, 2022)
• Household Pulse Survey (August 19, 2022)

Institute of Education Sciences

• 2023-24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:24) Field Test—Institution Contacting and List Collection (August 15, 2022)
• International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2023) Main Study Questionnaire Revision (August 22, 2022)
• National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) 2022-2024 (August 8, 2022)
• National Teacher and Principal Survey of 2023-2024 (NTPS 2023-24) Preliminary Field Activities (October 3, 2022)

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• Land Leasing Survey in Oklahoma (August 10, 2022)
• Organic Survey (September 13, 2022)