APDU Weekly – August 11, 2022

August 11, 2022

FEATURES

APDU Annual Conference Panel:

It’s Not Just Race: Equity and Diversity in Public Data

Hear from an all-star lineup at

APDU 2022’s 1:00 PM panel!

Meet Shelby Switzer and learn about Justice40: An opensource tool to identify disadvantaged communities due to environmental, socioeconomic and health burdens.

Share Your Work! 2022 Annual Conference Poster Session

Submission deadline extended to August 19th

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. 

NEWS

Credit Card Debt Surges as Inflation Pushes Americans to Borrow More

Jobless Claims Tick Higher as Layoffs Rise 

Pick Your Economy: Booming Labor Market or Fizzling Growth 

Report: Labor Productivity Dropped Most Since 1948  

Researchers Ask Census to Stop Controversial Privacy Method   

Robert Santos Counts the Future   

Statement by U.S. Secretary of Labor Walsh on July Jobs Report  

U.S. Job Growth Unexpectedly Soared in July 

COVID-19 NEWS

A Look at the Economic Effects of the Pandemic for Children 

Long COVID Comes in Three Forms: Study  

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

2021 NHIS Public – Use Files Now Available   

Updated Tables Provide New Data on Key Education Statistics 

DATA VISUALIZATION

Visualizing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector 

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau

The American Community Survey: A Comprehensive Look

September 1, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

More Information 

Census Bureau

Statistics in Schools and American Community Survey Data for Classrooms

September 7, 2022

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

More Information

Census Bureau

Data Access and Cross Tabulation Using MDAT

September 8, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

More Information 

APDU EVENTS

Association of Public Data Users

Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Annual Conference

September 20, 2022

Arlington, VA

More Information

APDU Online Training Class

Power BI Basics

September 27, 29 and October 4, 6, 2022

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET

More Information

APDU Online Training Class

Data Visualization with Tableau

November 2 – 4, 2022

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET

More Information

EVENTS

Community Indicators Consortium

The Future of: Communities – CIC Impact Summit

September 20 – 21, 2022

Arlington, VA

More Information

Economic Research Service

International Food Acquisition Research and Methods (iFARM) Workshop

October 20 – 21, 2022

College Park, MD

More Information 

Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology

2022 FCSM Research & Policy Conference

October 25 – 27, 2022

Washington, D.C.

More Information 

National Association of Health Data Organization (NAHDO)

37th Annual Conference – Putting Healthcare Data to Work

October 25 – 27, 2022

Virtual

More Information 

American Public Health Association

APHA 2022 – Annual Meeting & Expo

November 6 – 9, 2022

Boston, MA

More Information 

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Analyzing Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey Workshop (American Society of Criminology Conference)

November 15, 2022

Atlanta, GA

More Information

DATA PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS 

George Washington University Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub

• Global Data Governance Mapping Project Year Two Report

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Employment Increased in 129 Metropolitan Areas From June 2021 to June 2022
• Labor Productivity up 5.7 Percent in Wholesale Trade, 6.6 Percent in Retail Trade, in 2021
• Nonfatal and Fatal Work-Related Transportation Incidents in 2019 and 2020

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• U.S. Airlines’ June 2022 Fuel Consumption Down 11.1% from Pre-Pandemic 2019; Aviation Fuel Cost per Gallon Hits All Time High
• U.S. Transportation Sector Unemployment Rate of 4.2% in July 2022 Was Below the July 2021 Level of 7.3% And Was The Same As the Pre-Pandemic July Level of 4.2% in 2019

Census Bureau

• Revenues for Home Care, Elderly Services Increase as Nation Ages
• Unanticipated Benefits of Compensating Survey Respondents

Energy Information Administration

• Energy Production Declined by Record Amounts in Several States in 2020
• Pipeline Projects Announced to Expand Permian Natural Gas Capacity
• Russia’s Natural Gas Pipeline Exports to Europe Decline to Almost 40-Year Lows
• The U.S. Power Grid Added 15 GW of Generating Capacity in the First Half of 2022
• U.S. Propane Spot Prices Have Declined From Multiyear Highs

Federal Reserve Bank of New York 

• Three Key Facts from the Center for Microeconomic Data’s 2022 Student Loan Update

National Center for Education Statistics

• Documentation for the 2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey
• More than 98 Percent of Public Schools Made Concerted Efforts to Promote Pandemic-Related Learning Recovery During the 2021-22 School Year

National Center for Health Statistics

• Fetal Mortality: United States, 2020
• QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates* from Diabetes Mellitus† Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years, by Single Race and Hispanic Origin — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2020
• United States Life Tables, 2020

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Baccalaureate Origins of Underrepresented Minority Research Doctorate Recipients

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

• Can a Hot but Smaller Labor Market Keep Making Gains in Participation?

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

• Maintaining a Light-Touch Approach to Data Protection in the United States

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):