APDU Weekly – October 20, 2022

October 20, 2022

FEATURE

Can You Believe 2023 Is Right Around the Corner?

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NEWS

Inflation Increased 0.4% In September, More Than Expected Despite Rate Hikes

It’s Not Too Late to Submit Your Ideas For the 2030 Census

New Associate Director for Research and Methodology and Chief Scientist

Prices Rose Again in September, Ensuring More Interest Rate Hikes

The Price Of Poverty: What It Means To Be Poor In America

Thoughts on Identity and Diversity for Hispanic Heritage Month (Part 5)

COVID-19 NEWS

CDC Identifies New COVID Variants That Accounted for 11.4% of New Cases In Week Ending Oct. 15

The COVID Data That Are Actually Useful Now

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

NACo Builds a Data Foundation for Affordable Housing

New Law Enforcement Agency Reported Crime Analysis Tool (LEARCAT)

DATA VISUALIZATION

Comparing Lightning-Caused and Human-Caused U.S. Wildfires

UPCOMING WEBINARS

National Center for Health Statistics

The Evolution of Health Disparities in the Healthy People initiative

November 14, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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APDU EVENTS

APDU Online Training Class

Data Visualization with Tableau

November 2 – 4, 2022

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET

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EVENTS

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

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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

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• CPI for All Items Rises 0.4% In September as Shelter and Food Increase, Gasoline Falls
• Full-time Wage and Salary Workers Median Weekly Earnings Are $1,070 in 3rd Quarter 2022
• Labor Force Participation and Time Use of Hispanics and Latinos in 2021
• Leisure and Hospitality Projected to Mostly Recover Pandemic-driven Employment Losses
• Long-term Unemployed Account For 18.5 Percent of Total Unemployed in September 2022
• Nonfarm Payroll Employment Rose by 263,000 in September 2022
• PPI for Final Demand Advances 0.4% In September; Services and Goods Both Rise 0.4%
• Producer Prices Increased 8.5 Percent From September 2021 to September 2022

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• U.S. Cargo and Passenger Airlines Added 1,334 Jobs in August 2022; Employment Remains 3.6% Above Pre-Pandemic August 2019

Census Bureau

• 2022 Economic Census Classification Mailing to be Sent Out
• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release
• Census Bureau Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Venture Fund to Improve Data Collection
• Do Disabilities Impact Older People’s Moves to Other Locations?
• How Resilient Are Communities Along the U.S.-Mexico Border?

Energy Information Administration

• 95% Of the Fuel Ethanol Moved in the United States in the First Half of 2022 Moved by Rail
• Daily U.S. Summer Nuclear Capacity Outages Were 19% Lower This Summer Than Last Summer
• EIA Expects Most U.S. Households Will Spend More on Energy This Winter
• U.S. Natural Gas Bills Will Increase in All Regions This Winter
• U.S. Natural Gas Production Set a New Record in 2021

National Center for Education Statistics

• Changes Between 2011 and 2019 in Achievement Gaps Between High- and Low-Performing Students in Mathematics and Science: International Results From TIMSS
• The 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 4 Oral Reading Fluency Study Public-Use Data File
• U.S. Is Unique in Score Gap Widening in Mathematics and Science at Both Grades 4 and 8: Prepandemic Evidence from TIMSS
• U.S. Technical Report and User Guide for the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)

National Center for Health Statistics

• Cause-of-death Data From the Fetal Death File, 2018–2020
• COVID-19 Mortality in Adults Aged 65 and Over: United States, 2020
• QuickStats: Age-adjusted Death Rates from Stroke Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years, by Race and Hispanic Origin — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2000–2020
• Telemedicine Use Among Adults: United States, 2021

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities: 2021 (Data Tables)
• Survey of Earned Doctorates Field of Study Taxonomy Changes in 2021 and Impact on Trend Data

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 Prisoner Statistics Program (November 18, 2022)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (November 3, 2022)
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) (November 10, 2022)
• The Consumer Expenditure Surveys: The Quarterly Interview and the Diary (November 14, 2022)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO) (October 31, 2022)
• Passenger Origin-Destination Survey Report (October 24, 2022)

Census Bureau

• American Community Survey and Puerto Rico Community Survey (November 14, 2022)
• Generic Clearance for Questionnaire Pretesting Research (November 13, 2022)
• Inflation Measures for Adjusting Historical Income (October 31, 2022)
• Monthly Retail Surveys (December 5, 2022)
• Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (December 5, 2022)
• Soliciting Input or Suggestions on 2030 Census Preliminary Research (November 15, 2022)
• Survey of Construction: Questionnaire for Building Permit Official (December 13, 2022)

Energy Information Agency

• Agency Information Collection Extension (November 7, 2022)

Institute for Education Sciences

• 2023-24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:24) Field Test—Student Data Collection and Student Records (November 28, 2022)
• Common Core of Data (CCD) School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) 2022-2024 (November 28, 2022)
• IES Research Training Program Surveys (November 7, 2022)

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• Field Crops Production (November 21, 2022)

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Standard Application Process (SAP) Portal (October 31, 2022)