APDU Weekly – January 5, 2023

January 5, 2023

FEATURE

Register Now for the Virtual Green Space Data Challenge!

Register now for the virtual Green Space Data Challenge hosted by the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy! Participants will have the entire month of February 2023 to demonstrate the value of green space data by creating analyses, visualizations, and new community indicators. All participants will have the chance to meet fellow data enthusiasts, win cash prizes, and even have their work publicized! You can find additional details, FAQs, and links to register below.

NEWS

10-Year Treasury Yield Ticks Higher as Key Inflation Data Comes in Slightly Hotter Than Expected

Biden Administration Outlines More Plans to Improve Federal Services, Access to Data

Census Bureau Director Santos looks back on 2022

International Migration Drove US Population Growth in 2022

Job Market Data Will Usher in the New Year’s Economic News

Latest Inflation Data Shows Prices Cooling in November

Retirees Are One Reason the Fed Has Given Up on a Big Worker Rebound

See Your State’s Total Job Openings

Social Security Denies Disability Benefits Based on List With Jobs From 1977

U.S. Census Bureau Redefines Meaning of ‘Urban’ America

World Population Expected to Be Over 7.9 Billion on New Year’s Day, U.S. Census Bureau Projects

COVID-19 NEWS

New Law Ends COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for U.S. Troops  

New Omicron Subvariant Has Become Dominant in U.S., Climbing to About 41% Of Cases From 1.3% At the Start of December

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

ArcGIS Update Provides Closer Look Into Race, Poverty Data

Changes to 2023 CPS Public-Use Microdata Files

DATA VISUALIZATION

U.S. Inflation: How Much Have Prices Increased?

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau  

Using the Census Survey Explorer to Get Started

January 12, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET 

Center for Data Innovation

How Can Better Federal Data on Higher Education Outcomes Reduce Student Debt?

January 25, 2023

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET

Census Bureau 

Finding Your Way Through Census Bureau Geographies 

January 26, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET 

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EVENTS

American Economic Association (AEA) and Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA)

ASSA 2023 Annual Meeting

January 6 – 8, 2023

New Orleans, LA

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 

2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference 

January 13, 2023 

10:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET 

Virtual 

American Statistical Association 

American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Practice

February 2 – 4, 2023 

San Francisco, CA 

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DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Justice Statistics 

• BJS Releases its 2023 Publications Calendar
• Federal Justice Statistics, 2021

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• 70 Percent of Private Industry Workers Had Access to Medical Care Benefits in 2022
• 95 Metro Areas Had Increases in Nonfarm Employment From November 2021 to November 2022
• Employment up in 44 States for Year Ended November 2022
• Manufacturing Export Prices up 5.8 Percent Over the Year Ended November 2022
• November Jobless Rates Down Over the Year in 235 of 389 Metro Areas; Payroll Jobs up in 95
• The Linked Employment Cost Index: A First Look and Estimation Methodology
• U.S. Import Prices up 2.7 Percent From November 2021 to November 2022

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Freight Analysis Framework 12/22/22 Updated

Census Bureau

• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release
• Census Bureau Projects U.S. and World Populations on New Year’s Day
• Growth in U.S. Population Shows Early Indication of Recovery Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
• Happy New Year 2023!
• Nation’s Urban and Rural Populations Shift Following 2020 Census
• Net International Migration Returns to Pre-COVID-19 Levels
• Redefining Urban Areas following the 2020 Census
• The Stories U.S. Census Bureau Data Told in 2022
• Who Owns America’s Businesses?

Economic Research Service 

• COVID-19 Working Paper: Consumer Food Spending Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Examining Record Soybean Oil Prices in 2021–22
• U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Industries Try To Cope With Rising Labor Costs

Energy Information Administration

• During 2021, U.S. Retail Electricity Prices Rose at Fastest Rate Since 2008
• Electric Vehicles and Hybrids Surpass 10% Of U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Sales
• Energy Commodity Prices in 2022 Showed Effects of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
• Retail Gasoline Prices Rose Across the United States in 2021 as Driving Increased
• The United States Became the World’s Largest LNG Exporter in the First Half of 2022
• U.S. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Proved Reserves, Year-end 2021
• U.S. Nuclear Electricity Generation Continues to Decline as More Reactors Retire
• U.S. Refined Coal Production and Consumption Declines With the Expiration of a Tax Credit
• Wind Was Second-Largest Source of U.S. Electricity Generation on March 29

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• United States Hog Inventory Down 2%

National Center for Health Statistics

• Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2001–2021
• Mortality in the United States, 2021
• New Report Confirms U.S. Life Expectancy has Declined to Lowest Level Since 1996

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics 

• Innovation Data from the 2020 Annual Business Survey
• U.S. Nonprofits Spent $28 Billion on R&D Activities in FY 2020

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Center for American Progress

• The Latest Poverty, Income, and Food Insecurity Data Reveal Continuing Racial Disparities

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

• 2022 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA) (January 17, 2023)
• Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data (January 16, 2023)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) (February 21, 2023)
• Occupational Requirements Survey (February 17, 2023) 
• Report on Occupational Employment and Wages (January 9, 2023)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data (January 17, 2023)

Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis

• Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data (January 9, 2023)

Census Bureau

• Automated Export System Program (January 20, 2023) 
• Housing Vacancy Survey (February 14, 2023) 
• Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (January 19, 2023)
• National Survey of Children’s Health Longitudinal Cohort (NSCH—LC) (January 20, 2023)
• National Survey of Children’s Health (February 6, 2023)
• Survey of Construction Questionnaire for the Building Permit Official (SOC-QBPO) (January 20, 2023)

Economic Research Service

• Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data (February 21, 2023)

Institute for Education Sciences

• 2023-24 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:24) Field Test—Student Data Collection and Student Records (January 6, 2023)
• Evaluating the Impact of the Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy (PLC-EL) (January 23, 2023)
• Evaluation of Transition Supports for Youth With Disabilities (January 9, 2023)
• International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2023) Main Study Questionnaire Revision (January 13, 2023)
• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2024 (January 17, 2023)
• National Evaluation of Career and Technical Education Under Perkins (March 6, 2023)

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• Agricultural Resource Management Phase 3 Economic Surveys (February 21, 2023)
• Agricultural Resources Management Survey and Chemical Use Surveys (February 21, 2023)
• Cotton Ginning Survey (January 9, 2023)
• NASS Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data (January 9, 2023)

National Center for Education Statistics 

• NCES Data Security Requirements for Accessing Restricted Use Data (January 24, 2023)
• School Pulse Panel Preliminary Field Activities (February 2, 2023)

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• 2023 National Survey of College Graduates (January 13, 2023) 
• 2023 Survey of Doctorate Recipients (February 6, 2023)
• Survey of Earned Doctorates (February 7, 2023)