May 25, 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

Democratizing Labor Market Information: A Thought Piece 

By: Julia Lane, Professor at New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

It has never been more important to have timely, local, and actionable data on jobs and earnings – labor market data. Just in the past three years, we have seen the need in many areas, ranging from local responses to COVID-19, to the training of workers for the jobs resulting from such investments as the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, and requested for AI. Also, in past decades, the mismatch between workers and jobs has been blamed for the “deaths of despair”. It’s time to expand our infrastructure to include state and local data in a way that can democratize our access to and use of labor market information.

NEWS

Almost 90 Million American Adults Struggle to Make Ends Meet, Census Says

Analysis: Mayors Across the Americas Double Down on Data

Census Rejecting Some Big-City Complaints of 2020 Undercounts

Consumer Price Growth Falls to Below 5% for the First Time in Two Years

Gender Reveals: Data Shows Disparities in Child Care Roles

Immigrants Drove Majority of U.S. Labor Force Expansion in 2022

Labor Force Trends of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders

Large U.S. Cities Regain Population Lost During Pandemic, Census Data Shows

President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli as Director of the National Institutes of Health

Social Security COLA to Drop Significantly in 2024, Senior Group Predicts

Unemployment Was at Historic Lows in 15 U.S. States Last Month

Valuable New Datasets on Race and Ethnicity From the U.S. Census Bureau

COVID-19 NEWS

3 Years Later, the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency is Drawing to a Close

As Public Health Emergency Ends, Pandemic-Era Support Programs Have Already Been Fading Away

End of COVID-19 Emergency Leaves a Black Hole of Health Data

Fastest Growing and Shrinking U.S. States After COVID-19

Imagining Life After the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends

Think the COVID-19 Threat is Over? It’s Not for These People

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

Freight Analysis Framework 5/16/23 Updated

Manufacturing and International Trade Report (MITR)

New Updates to Interactive “Stats of the States” Page

New York Fed Resumes Regular Publication of R-Star Estimates

DATA VISUALIZATION

Visualizing the American Workforce as 100 People

APDU EVENTS

APDU Call for Visualizations

Data Storytelling Awards

Submission Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2023

APDU 2023 Annual Conference

July 25 – 26, 2023

Arlington, VA

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UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau 

Accessing 2020 Decennial Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics Data Using data.census.gov

May 30, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Census Bureau 

American Indians and Alaska Natives and the American Community Survey

May 31, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Census Bureau 

Finding Data for the 5 Race Categories

June 8, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

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EVENTS

Association for Institutional Research 

2023 AIR Forum

May 30 – June 2, 2023

Cleveland, OH

National Association of County & City Health Officials

2023 NACCHO360 Annual Conference

July 10 – 13, 2023

Denver, CO

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

• Gross Domestic Product for the U.S. Virgin Islands, 2021

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Female Recruits in Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2018
• Jails in Indian Country, 2022
• Report: Number of Persons Under the Supervision of Adult Correctional Systems in the United States, 2010–2020

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Asians and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders in the Labor Force
• Austin-Round Rock Metro Area Employment up 49.9 Percent Over Past 10 Years
• Consumer Prices up 4.9 Percent From April 2022 to April 2023
• Illnesses Caused by Viruses (COVID-19) Among Healthcare and Social Assistance Workers Occurred at a Rate About Five Times Greater Than All Workers in 2020
• Labor Force Characteristics of Foreign-Born Workers
• Labor Productivity Rose at 1.1-Percent Annual Rate From Fourth Quarter 2019 to First Quarter 2023
• PPI for Final Demand Advances 0.2% In April; Services Rise 0.3%, Goods Increase 0.2%
• Producer Prices for Final Demand Rose 2.3 Percent Over the Year Ended April 2023
• Real Weekly Earnings Down 1.1 Percent for Year Ending April 2023
• The Decline of Job Creation at New Establishments
• Unemployment in Families Lower in 2022 Than Before COVID-19 Pandemic
• Unemployment Rate for the Foreign Born Declines to 3.4% In 2022

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• U.S. Cargo and Passenger Airlines Added 2,544 Jobs in March 2023; Employment Remains 8.2% Above Pre-Pandemic March 2019

Census Bureau

• Census Bureau Releases Nonemployer Business Data by Demographic Characteristics of Owners
• Examining Equity in COVID-19 Stimulus Payments
• Household Pulse Survey Phase 3.8 Monthly Data Release
• How Long Does It Take Renters to Find a Place?
• Large Cities No Longer the Biggest Population Losers
• Large Southern Cities Lead Nation in Population Growth
• Persistent Poverty: Identifying Areas With Long-Term High Poverty
• Providing Users With Accessible Data
• Public School Spending Per Pupil Experiences Largest Year-to-Year Increase in More Than a Decade
• Significant Educational Strides by Young Hispanic Population
• Valuable New Datasets on Race and Ethnicity From the U.S. Census Bureau
• Women Made Up Majority of Home-Based Workers During Pandemic

Energy Information Administration

• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release
• EIA Expects Lower Crude Oil Prices for the Second Half of 2023 and for 2024
• EIA Projects Coal Capacity Will Decrease in Our Annual Energy Outlook 2023
• Incentives and Lower Costs Drive Electric Vehicle Adoption in Our Annual Energy Outlook
• Mixed Water Supply Condition Across Western States Affects 2023 Hydropower Outlook
• Texas and New Mexico Led U.S. Crude Oil Production in 2022
• U.S. Henry Hub Natural Gas Price Expected to Increase From Recent Lows
• U.S. Propane Consumption Last Winter Was the Lowest Since at Least 2010

National Center for Education Statistics

• PIRLS 2021 U.S. Highlights Web Report
• Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: FY 21 (NCES 2023-301)

National Center for Health Statistics

• A Comparison of the Mortality Experience of U.S. Adults Estimated With the 2006–2018 National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality Files and the Annual U.S. Life Tables
• Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2022
• National Hospital Care Survey Demonstration Projects: Mortality Following Nonfatal Opioid Overdose Visits to the Emergency Department
• Provisional Data Shows U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Top 100,000 in 2022
• QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Had a Repetitive Strain Injury During the Past 3 Months, by Sex and Race and Hispanic Origin
• QuickStats: Percentage of Children and Adolescents Aged 5–17 Years Who Received Free or Reduced-Cost Meals at School During the Previous 12 Months, by Race and Hispanic Ethnicity and Family Income — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021
• U.S. Uninsured Rate Dropped 18% During Pandemic

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Annual Business Survey: 2021 (Data Year 2020) – Data Update
• Geographic Distribution of Nonprofit R&D Performance in FY 2020

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Brookings 

• The Incredible Shrinking Infrastructure Workforce – and What to Do About It

Center for Data Innovation

• Digital Equity 2.0: How to Close the Data Divide

Pew Research Center

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace

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

• 2023 Law Enforcement Administrative and Management Statistics (LEMAS) Supplement Survey—Post-Academy Training and Officer Wellness (PATOW) (July 17, 2023)
• Bureau of Justice Statistics – 2023 National Census of Victim Service Providers (NCVSP) (June 5, 2023)
• Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ) (June 20, 2023)
• Annual Surveys of Probation and Parole (June 30, 2023)
• Data Security Requirements for Accessing Restricted Data (June 5, 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)

Census Bureau

• Census Household Panel (July 10, 2023)
• 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 

• Agricultural Prices (June 26, 2023)
• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2023–24 (ECLS–K:2024) Kindergarten and First-Grade Fall 2023 Materials Revision (June 7, 2023)
• NCES Data Security Requirements for Accessing Restricted Use Data (June 9, 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)
• National Center for Education Statistics – Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) Survey 2023–2025 (July 24, 2023)
• National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics – Data Security Requirements for Accessing Confidential Data (June 11, 2023)