APDU Bi-Weekly – February 16, 2023

February 16, 2023

FEATURE

Call For Proposals Now Open – 2023 APDU Annual Conference

APDU is welcoming proposals for the 2023 Annual Conference, Expanding the Universe of Public Data, (July 25 – 26, 2023). There is an opportunity to unlock the value of public data by examining its multidimensionality across federal, state, and local levels. APDU is interested in proposals from public and private entities that use interactions between public data sets to discover information.

NEWS

Job Openings Spiked in December to High Not Seen Since Summer

More Than 1 in 6 Americans Now 65 or Older as U.S. Continues Graying

Natural Disasters, Boosted by Climate Change, Displaced Millions of People in U.S. In 2022

OMB Releases Initial Set of Recommended Revisions to the Federal Race and Ethnicity Standards

Recognizing 2023 Black History Month

Revisions Show U.S. Consumer Prices a Bit Firmer Than Previously Reported

U.S. Hiring Surges With January Gain of 517,000 Jobs

Women Lost More Jobs Early in the Pandemic. They’re Also Returning Faster.

COVID-19 NEWS

‘I Felt Powerless’: Black Americans Suffering From Long COVID Say They Have Trouble Accessing Care

Long COVID: What It Can Cause, Who Can Get It, and How Can Doctors Spot It?

Omicron Subvariant That’s Dominant in U.S. Extends Lead Over Other Variants in Latest Week, CDC Data Shows

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

Census Bureau Releases New National Experimental Data Product About Wellbeing

New Detailed Race and Ethnicity Data Query System

New Platform to Apply for Restricted-Use Data Access for Evidence-Building

DATA VISUALIZATION

Ranked: The World’s Most and Least Powerful Passports in 2023

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau

Exploring Economic Data on data.census.gov 

February 22, 2023

2:00PM – 3:00 PM ET

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Association of Public Data Users

APDU Town Hall: Future of Public Data (and APDU)

February 28, 2023

3:00PM – 4:00 PM ET

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EVENTS

Census Bureau 

The Opportunity Project Summit

February 22 – 24, 2023

Virtual

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AcademyHealth

2023 Health Datapalooza

February 23 – 24, 2023

Arlington, VA

More Information

APDU Town Hall: Future of Public Data (and APDU)

February 28, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Virtual

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Census Bureau 

2023 Local Employment

Dynamics Partnership Virtual Workshop

March 28 – 30, 2023

Virtual

More Information

Population Association of America

PAA 2023 Annual Meeting

April 12 – 15, 2023

New Orleans, LA

More Information

DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• 2022 Trade Gap is $948.1 Billion
• New Health Care Statistics for First Year of COVID Pandemic
• New Platform Helps Researchers Apply to Use BEA Microdata

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Comparing Occupational Employment and Wages in Public and Private Elementary and Secondary Schools
• Compensation Costs up 5.1 Percent From December 2021 to December 2022
• Employment up 5.9 Percent in Charleston and Dallas Metro Areas, December 2021 to December 2022
• Half of Civilian Workers Required Over 1 Year of Preparation Time to Perform Their Jobs in 2022
• Hawaii Had the Highest Rate of Union Membership in 2022
• Madison, Wisconsin, Had the Lowest Unemployment Rate in December 2022
• More Ways to Look at Wages and Inflation
• Nonfarm Business Productivity Down 1.5 Percent From Fourth Quarter 2021 to Fourth Quarter 2022
• Nonfarm Payroll Employment Rose by 517,000 in January 2023
• Number of Unemployed at 5.7 Million in January 2023
• Projecting Employment During Pandemic Recovery
• Retirement Plans for Workers in Private Industry and State and Local Government in 2022
• Statement by U.S. Secretary of Labor Walsh on January Jobs Report

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• BTS Updates Datasets to National Transportation Atlas Database
• U.S. Transportation Sector Unemployment Rate of 4.7% in January 2023 Was Same As the January 2022 Level of 4.7% And Was Above the Pre-Pandemic January Level of 3.4% in 2020

Census Bureau

• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release
• Census Bureau Releases New Index of Economic Activity
• Changing Small Habits Can Lead to Transformation
• County Business Patterns
• Economic Census: What’s in It for Me?
• How Did Self-Care Industries Perform at Start of Pandemic?
• How Have State Official Poverty Rates Changed Over 10 Years?
• In Time for the Grammy Awards, Statistics on the Recording Industry
• Super Bowl LVII: Fun Facts About Players and Places
• Where in the U.S. Are the High-Tech Jobs?

Economic Research Service

• Declining Crop Prices, Rising Production and Exports Highlight U.S. Agricultural Projections to 2032
• ERS Refines Forecasting Methods in Food Price Outlook
• Global Demand for Fuel Ethanol Through 2030

Energy Information Administration

• Declining Crop Prices, Rising Production and Exports Highlight U.S. Agricultural Projections to 2032
• ERS Refines Forecasting Methods in Food Price Outlook
• Global Demand for Fuel Ethanol Through 2030 
• Domestic Renewable Diesel Capacity Could More Than Double Through 2025
• EIA Forecasts U.S. Refinery Utilization to Average More Than 90% In 2023 and 2024
• More Than Half of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2023 Will Be Solar
• Spending by U.S. Natural Gas Consumers Rose 37% In 2021, Especially in Oklahoma and Texas
• U.S. Proved Reserves of Crude Oil Increased Significantly in 2021

National Center For Education Statistics

• Administrators Report Roughly Half of Public School Students Began 2022-23 School Year Behind Grade Level in At Least One Academic Subject
• Forum Guide to State Education Agency Support for Local Education Agencies in Civil Rights Data Reporting

National Center for Health Statistics

• Love is in the Air: Marriages Rebound in 2021
• New Release: Interactive Summary Health Statistics for Adults, by Detailed Race and Ethnicity, 2019-2021 
• QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged ≥45 Years Who Use a Hearing Aid, by Sex and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021
• QuickStats: Percentage of Persons Who Used Telemedicine During the Past 12 Months, by Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Per-Student Federal Obligations for R&D and Fellowship, Training, and Traineeship Grants at HBCUs and Other Minority-Serving Institutions

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Brookings 

• Americans’ Local Migration Reached a Historic Low in 2022, but Long-Distance Moves Picked Up
• Historical Unemployment for Black Women and Men in the United States: 1954-2021

Center for American Progress 

• Fact Sheet: The State of Women in the Labor Market in 2023

Consortium of Social Science Association

• 2023 Rankings of Federal Social and Behavioral Science R&D Funding at Colleges & Universities

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) (March 13, 2023)
• Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC) (April 14, 2023)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) (February 21, 2023)
• Occupational Requirements Survey (February 17, 2023) 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Confidential Close Call Transit Data (March 24, 2023)
• Confidential Close Call Transit Data (March 20, 2023)

Census Bureau

• Annual Business Survey (February 22, 2023)
• Automated Export System (AES) (March 8, 2023)
• Census Household Panel (April 7, 2023)
• Census Military Panel (April 7, 2023)

Economic Research Service

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

Energy Information Administration

• Coal Markets Reporting System (March 14, 2023)
• Natural Gas Imports and Exports (March 14, 2023)

Institute for Education Sciences

• Evaluating the Impact of the Professional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy (PLC-EL) (March 6, 2023)
• Evaluation of Full-Service Community Schools: Early Implementation Data Collection (March 20, 2023)
• Evaluation of Strategies to Address Unfinished Learning in Math (ReSolve Math Study) (April 17, 2023)
• Evaluation of the REL West Supporting Early Reading Comprehension Through Teacher Study Groups Toolkit (March 13, 2023)
• National Evaluation of Career and Technical Education Under Perkins (March 6, 2023)
• Visual Representations for Proportional Reasoning: Impacts of a Teacher Professional Development Program for Multilingual Learners and Other Students (March 20, 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)
• Aquaculture Surveys (March 6, 2023)
• Current Agricultural Industrial Reports (CAIR) (April 3, 2023)

National Center for Education Statistics 

• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2023-24 (ECLS-K:2024) Kindergarten and First-Grade National Data Collection and Transfer School Recruitment (February 27, 2023)
• Longitudinal, Cross-Sectional, and International Studies (February 17, 2023)
•  National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2024 (March 8, 2023)
• National Teacher and Principal Survey of 2023-2024 (NTPS 2023-24) Data Collection (March 24, 2023)

National Science Foundation

• Grantee Reporting Requirements for the Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) Program (April 11, 2023)

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

• Initial Proposals For Updating OMB’s Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards (April 12, 2023)