May 11, 2023

FEATURE

2023 APDU Data Storytelling Awards: Call for Visualizations

APDU is soliciting creative and meaningful stories driven by publicly available data (for example, data from the Census Bureau or Bureau of Labor Statistics) that blend numbers, narrative, and graphics.

About the Award:

APDU is updating its long-running Data Viz Awards to emphasize the importance of storytelling to communicate trends and insights to a variety of audiences, making data more accessible for community members and decision makers.

APDU welcomes submissions from:

• Federal, State, and Local Government
• Non-profit and research organizations, including academic institutions
• Private sector firms, consultancies, and advocacy groups

Submission Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2023

The Rise of Industrial Policy Means Data Synchronization is More Critical Than Ever

Industrial policy is the hot new trend in D.C. policymaking circles, a Biden administration promise to radically transform the economy that is pouring federal dollars into green energy, infrastructure, and semiconductor manufacturing. While this transformation will place considerable demands on federal data infrastructure, the administration has taken up this challenge with its work to improve the level of disaggregation offered by national statistics and to account for environmental wealth in national accounts, to name just two new initiatives.

NEWS

COVID-19 NEWS

As Public Health Emergency Ends, CDC Will Stop Tracking Community Levels of COVID-19

Changes In Health Coverage During The COVID-19 Pandemic

What the End of the COVID- 19 Public Health Emergency Means for You

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

New Business Ownership Data Hub

DATA VISUALIZATION

Mapping U.S. Urbanization, by State

APDU EVENTS

APDU Call for Visualizations

Data Storytelling Awards

Submission Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2023

APDU Town Hall

ACS Data Users Conference Debrief

May 19, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

APDU 2023 Annual Conference

July 25 – 26, 2023

Arlington, VA

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UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau 

2020 Census DHC Pre-Release Webinar

May 16, 2023

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

Census Bureau 

Learn How Census Is Leveraging Real Dollar Data and Completing the Trade Picture

May 18, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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Census Bureau 

Disability Data Through a Different Perspective

May 25, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Census Bureau 

Exploring Census Data: Emergency Management

May 25, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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EVENTS

Association for Institutional Research 

2023 AIR Forum

May 30 – June 2, 2023

Cleveland, OH

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

CE 2023 Public Use Microdata Workshop

July 18 – 20, 2023

Virtual

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DATA PUBLICATIONS

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• Patricia Abaroa Named New BEA Deputy Director

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Recidivism of Females Released from State Prison, 2012–2017

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• A Look at Work Injuries and Illnesses in Elementary and Secondary Schools
• A Look at Workplace Deaths and Nonfatal Injuries and Illnesses for Workers’ Memorial Day
• Compensation Costs for Private Industry Workers up 4.8 Percent From March 2022 to March 2023
• Construction Deaths Due to Falls, Slips, and Trips Increased 5.9 Percent in 2021
• Consumer Expenditures Rise 8.6 Percent in April–June 2022 Quarter Compared With Year Earlier
• Employment up in 42 States From March 2022 to March 2023
• Ensuring Accuracy of Electricity Prices in the Consumer Price Index
• Federal Government Wage Indexes
• Job Openings Reach Record Highs in 2022 as the Labor Market Recovery Continues
• Productivity and Costs by Industry: Manufacturing and Mining Industries – 2022
• PUMD Data Files
• Statement by Assistant Secretary Julie McClain Downey on April Jobs Report

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• 2022 Annual and 4th Quarter U.S. Airline Financial Data
• BTS Updates Datasets to National Transportation Atlas Database
• North American Transborder Freight up 6.6% in February 2023 from February 2022
• U.S. Airlines’ March 2023 Fuel Cost per Gallon Down 9.6% from February 2023; Aviation Fuel Consumption Up 1.3% from Pre-Pandemic March 2019
• U.S. Transportation Sector Unemployment Rate of 3.8% in April 2023 Was Above the April 2022 Level of 3.6% And Was Just Above the Pre-Pandemic April Level of 3.7% in 2019

Census Bureau

• 2021 County Business Patterns Now Available
• 2022 Voting and Registration Data Now Available
• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release
• Census Bureau Releases 2020 Census Apportionment Brief
• Census Bureau Releases 2021 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Operations
• Census Bureau Releases 2022 Annual Building Permits Data
• Census Bureau Releases New Report About Persistent Poverty at County and Census-Tract Level
• Census Bureau to Embargo Vintage 2022 Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area, Local Population and Housing Unit Estimates
• Congressional Apportionment: 2020 Census Brief
• High Registration and Early Voting in 2022 Midterm Elections
• Hispanic, Black Adults More Likely to Report Long COVID-19 Symptoms
• Impact of the End of Extra SNAP Benefits
• Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Business Operations (2021)
• New Data on Structured Management Practices for Manufacturing Establishments Now Available
• Opportunities for Marriage, Partnership Shape Women’s Family Incomes

Economic Research Service

• Estimating the State-Level Food Expenditure Series
• Healthcare Professionals Seek Social Connections When Moving to Rural Towns

Energy Information Administration

• A Mild Winter Reduced Withdrawals From Natural Gas Storage in the U.S. South Central
• Less Natural Gas Was Withdrawn From Storage This Winter Than in the Last Seven
• State Energy Data System: Wood and biomass waste through 2021
• U.S. Coal Shipments Increased Slightly in 2022 as Power Plants Replenished Stockpiles
• U.S. Households in Warmer States Consume Less Site Energy Than Households in Colder States
• U.S. Natural Gas Production and LNG Exports Will Likely Grow Through 2050 in AEO2023

National Center for Education Statistics

• 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Grade 4 Oral Reading Fluency Study Restricted-Use Data File
• 2022 NAEP Civics Assessment: Highlighted Results at Grade 8 for the Nation
• 2022 NAEP U.S. History Assessment: Highlighted Results at Grade 8 for the Nation
• Errata Sheet: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K) Restricted- and Public-Use Data Files Household Roster 

National Center for Health Statistics

• Changes in Prenatal Care Utilization: United States, 2019–2021
• Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the 2022 National Health Interview Survey
• Estimates of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Heroin, and Oxycodone: United States, 2021
• Fentanyl Overdose Death Rates More Than Tripled From 2016 to 2021
• Health Conditions and Health Care Use Among American Indian and Alaska Native Adults by Tribal Land Residential Status: United States, 2019–2021
• Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Quarterly Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, October 2021–December 2022
• Interactive Biannual Early Release Estimates
• QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Were in Families Having Problems Paying Medical Bills During the Previous 12 Months, by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Selected Asian Subgroups
• QuickStats: Percentage of Currently Employed Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Have Paid Sick Leave by Education Level — National Health Interview Survey, 2021

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Business Enterprise Research and Development: 2020

Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics 

• Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 83, No. 2

Statistics of Income Division

• 2022 IRS Data Book (Publication 55-B)
• Nonprofit Charitable and Other Tax-Exempt Organizations, Tax Year 2019
• State and County Migration Data for Calendar Year 2020–2021

The White House

• An Update on Housing Inflation in the Consumer Price Index

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

National Women’s Law Center

• Social Determinants of Health Metrics for Women, State by State

Pew Research Center

• Key Facts About Moms in the U.S.

Urban Institute

• Community Partnerships and Evaluations Are Key to Successful Federal Race and Ethnicity Data Collection Efforts

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

• Expenditures Incurred by Recipients of Biomedical Research and Development Awards From the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (May 22, 2023)

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• 2023 National Census of Victim Service Providers (NCVSP) (June 5, 2023)
• Bureau of Annual Surveys of Probation and Parole (June 30, 2023)
• Data Security Requirements for Accessing Restricted Data (June 5, 2023)
• Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems (SSCHIS) (May 22, 2023)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey (June 2, 2023)
• Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Business Supplement (May 26, 2023)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Report of Traffic and Capacity Statistics—The T–100 System (May 22, 2023)

Census Bureau

• Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR): State Department Directorate of Defense Trade Controls Filing Requirement and Clarifications to Current Requirements (July 3, 2023)
• Household Pulse Survey (June 9, 2023)

National Center for Education Statistics 

• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2023–24 (ECLS–K:2024) Kindergarten and First-Grade Fall 2023 Materials Revision (June 7, 2023)
• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2024 Amendment #1 (May 22, 2023)
• National Teacher and Principal Survey of 2023–2024 (NTPS 2023–24) Data Collection (May 24, 2023)
• Program for International Student Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main Study Recruitment and Field Test (July 7, 2023)
• School Pulse Panel 2023–24 Data Collection (June 5, 2023)