APDU Bi-Weekly – November 30, 2023

November 30, 2023

FEATURE

Data Storytelling Workshop – LAST CHANCE 

December 5, 7, 12, and 14, 2023

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Final week to register 

Interested in the upcoming Data Storytelling Workshop, but haven’t registered yet? Time is running out!

If you’re looking to build a skill that will get you and your work noticed, APDU’s workshop is a chance to learn how to tell a unique and compelling story with your own data. Other data storytelling trainings cost $500-$600 for just a few hours of virtual instruction in a group of hundreds. Sign up now and for the same price you can get 2x the training, with an instructor specialized in telling stories about regions and communities using public data, and the support of a close group of peers.

We hope you’ll join us!

2024 Board of Directors Vote

Voting is currently underway for candidates to fill open seats on APDU’s Board of Directors for 2024. If you are currently registered as an individual member, or are the designated representative of an organizational member, you have received an email with a link to vote.

A follow-up email will be sent early next week—keep an eye out and make sure your voice is heard!

Contact Tucker Plumlee (tplumlee@crec.net) with any questions.

APDU Annual Business Meeting 

December 13, 2023

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET  

As 2023 draws to a close, the APDU Board of Directors invites members to attend APDU’s 2023 Annual Business Meeting via Zoom.

In this meeting the Board of Directors will review the Association’s activities and accomplishments over the past year, its current financial position, as well as initial plans for 2024.

Register to receive a Zoom invite for the meeting using the link below.

NEWS

Economy Cools, Unemployment Claims up Last Week

Home Sales Slide as Prices Stay High Across the Economy

Inflation Was Flat in October From the Prior Month, Core CPI Hits Two-Year Low

More Than 1 in 4 Americans Will Be Hispanic by 2060, U.S. Census Bureau Predicts

OMB Sees Data-Driven Decision-Making as Key for Better Customer Service in Government

Secretary Mayorkas Launches New Office of Homeland Security Statistics

The Need to Train Data-Literate U.S. Army Commanders

U.S. Census Bureau Proposes Adding Gender, Sexuality Questions for Those Ages 15 and Up

U.S. Life Expectancy Rose in 2022, but Not Enough to Erase the Pandemic’s Toll

U.S. Population Will Start Shrinking by 2100, Census Bureau Forecasts

COVID-19 NEWS

New CDC Life Expectancy Data Shows Painfully Slow Rebound From COVID-19

Rise in U.S. Life Expectancy Is ‘Good News,’ but Gains Aren’t Enough to Wipe Out COVID-19 Losses

WHO Authorizes Emergency Use of Novavax’s Updated COVID-19 Shot

NEW AND UPDATED DATA SOURCES

Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics Data Tool (Update)

New State-level Elementary and Secondary Education Data Tables Available

Survey of Income and Program Participation Fact Sheets

DATA VISUALIZATION

The Top 50 Largest Importers in the World

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Census Bureau 

Exploring American Community Survey Commuting Data

December 13, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Census Bureau

Best Practices When Using American Community Survey Data

January 17, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

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EVENTS

Association of Public Data Users

Data Storytelling Workshop

December 5,7,12,14, 2023

Arlington, VA

Council of Graduate Schools

2023 63rd Annual Meeting

December 6 – 9, 2023

Washington, DC

American Statistical Association

2024 American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Practice 

February 27 – 29, 2024

New Orleans, LA

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DATA PUBLICATIONS

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS 

Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, Center for Children and Families

• What Is the Impact of Unwinding on Medicaid Enrollment?

GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Economic Analysis

• Activities of U.S. Multinational Enterprises, 2021
• Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2022
• Personal Income by County and Metropolitan Area, 2022

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Capital Punishment, 2021 – Statistical Tables
• Federal Deaths in Custody and During Arrest, 2021 – Statistical Tables
• Local Police Departments, Procedures, Policies, and Technology, 2020 – Statistical Tables
• New Victimization Statistics Unit Chief, Dr. Rachel E. Morgan
• School Resource Officers, 2019–2020
• Sheriffs’ Offices, Procedures, Policies, and Technology, 2020 – Statistical Tables

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• 8.6 Million Veterans Were Employed in 2022
• 21 Percent of Eldercare Providers Were Parents of Children Under Age 18 in 2021–22
• A Look at Nurse Practitioners for National Nurse Practitioner Week
• A Profile of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. Labor Force
• Consumer Prices for Turkeys and Other Thanksgiving Favorites
• Inflation-Adjusted Compensation Costs in Private Industry up 0.6 Percent Over the Year
• Median Weekly Earnings $721 for Workers Without High School Diploma, $1,864 for Advanced Degree
• Nonfarm Business Labor Productivity up 4.7 Percent in Third Quarter 2023
• Nonresidential Building Construction Overhead and Profit Markups: 2018 Through 2022
• Private Industry Nonprofit Workers Had the Highest Levels of Formal Education in 2022
• Producer Prices up 1.3 Percent From October 2022 to October 2023
• The Average Job Required 1,021 Days of Prior Work Experience in 2022
• Total Factor Productivity for Major Industries – 2022

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• August 2023 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Up 8.4% from the Same Month Last Year
• North American Transborder Freight Down 1.6% in September 2023 from September 2022
• Scooting and Pedaling to Thanksgiving Dinner
• September 2023 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Remains the Same as the Previous Month and Down 1.8% from the Same Month Last Year
• U.S. Cargo and Passenger Airlines Gained 2,939 Jobs in September 2023; Employment Remains 8.7% Above Pre-Pandemic September 2019

Census Bureau

• 3- and 4-Year-Old School Enrollment Rebounds From Pandemic Low
• About 8.2 Million People Moved Between States in 2022
• Announcing Plans for New Experimental Products Designed with the AIAN Community in Mind
• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release
• Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release PT.2
• Household Pulse Survey Phase 3.10 Monthly Data Release
• How Many U.S. Businesses Use Artificial Intelligence?
• Interracial Couples More Common Among Same-Sex Couples
• Three-Quarters of Children Younger Than 6 Years Old Live With Two Parents
• U.S. Population Projected to Begin Declining in Second Half of Century
• World Population Estimated at 8 Billion

Economic Research Service

• Producer Supply Response for Area Planted of Seven Major U.S. Crops
• Researchers Adjust Self-Reported Estimates of Obesity in Scanner Data
• Rising Consumer Demand Reshapes Landscape for U.S. Organic Farmers
• Rural America at a Glance: 2023 Edition

Energy Information Administration

• EIA Product Highlight: Status of U.S. Nuclear Outages
• Electric Vehicles and Hybrids Grow to a Record-High 18% Of U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Sales
• Global Natural Gas Market Well Supplied for Winter, but Risks Remain, EIA Analysis Finds
• Less Than One-Third of U.S. Commercial Buildings Were All-Electric in 2018
• LNG Export Capacity From North America Is Likely to More Than Double Through 2027
• Lower CO2 Emissions Are Partially Due to Shifts in Power Generation Sources
• Natural Gas Combined-Cycle Power Plants Increased Utilization With Improved Technology
• Northeast U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Prices Return to Last Year’s Highs
• U.S. Gasoline Prices Decline Amid Lower Gasoline Demand and Falling Crude Oil Prices

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• USDA Announces 2022 Census of Agriculture Data Release Details, Preliminary Return Rate, and Upcoming Special Studies
• USDA Invites Agriculture Producers to Respond Online to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey

National Center for Education Statistics

• 2019–20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) Data File Documentation
• Education at a Glance 2023: Putting U.S. Data in a Global Context
• NCES Presentation at National HBCU Week Conference
• The Majority of K-12 Public Schools Offer Academically Focused Summer and After-School Programs

National Center for Health Statistics

• Declines in Cancer Death Rates Among Youth: United States, 2001–2021
• Fetal Mortality Declined 5% Between 2021 and 2022
• Hypertension Prevalence, Treatment, and Control Among Adults: Los Angeles County and the United States, 2015–2018
• Life Expectancy Increases, However Suicides Up in 2022
• New Reports Examine Health Insurance Coverage in 2022
• Provisional Estimates of Suicide by Demographic Characteristics: United States, 2022
• Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for 2022
• QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Felt Very Tired or Exhausted Most Days or Every Day in the Past 3 Months, by Sex and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2022
• QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Rarely or Never Get the Social and Emotional Support They Need, by Sex and Disability Status — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021
• QuickStats: Percentage of Children and Adolescents Aged 4–17 Years Who Practiced Yoga During the Past 12 Months, by Sex and Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2022
• Suicide Among Adults Age 55 and Older, 2021
• Understanding Fertility and Families for 50 Years

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Higher Education in Science and Engineering
• State Government Agencies’ Expenditures for R&D Totaled $2.6 Billion in FY 2022, an Increase of 5% from FY 2021
• Survey of State Government Research and Development 2022

Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics 

• Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability Insurance Program, 2022
• Annual Statistical Supplement, 2023
• Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 83, No. 4

NONPROFITS & FOUNDATIONS

Pew Research Center

• Online Shopping Has Grown Rapidly in U.S., but Most Sales are Still in Stores

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

• Direct Investment Surveys: BE-605, Quarterly Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States-Transactions of U.S. Affiliate With Foreign Parent (January 8, 2024)

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Capital Punishment Report of Inmates Under Sentence of Death (January 8, 2024)
• National Prisoner Statistics program: Maternal Health Supplement (NPS-MatHealth) (January 22, 2024)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

• CPS Disability Supplement (January 26, 2024)
• National Compensation Survey (January 8, 2024)
• Producer Price Index Survey (January 2, 2024)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

• Electric Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (eVIUS) (December 6, 2023)
• Near-Miss Reporting and Analysis Program for the Maritime Transportation System (December 11, 2023)

Census Bureau

• Census Household Panel Topical 2 and Topical 3 Operations (December 6, 2023)
• Comment Request American Community Survey and Puerto Rico Community Survey (December 19, 2023)
• Generic Clearance for Internet Panel Pretesting and Qualitative Survey Methods Testing (December 18, 2023)
• Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) (January 16, 2024)
• National Survey of Children’s Health (January 16, 2024)
• State and Local Government Finance Collections, and Public Employment and Payroll Collections (January 22, 2024)

Economic Research Service

• Corn and Soybean Grower Survey (December 26, 2023)

Energy Information Administration

• Residential Energy Consumption Survey (January 2, 2023)
• Uranium Data Program (January 2, 2023)

National Agricultural Statistics Service

• Agricultural Surveys Program (November 13, 2023)
• Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) Survey (November 24, 2023)

National Center for Educational Sciences

• 2020/25 Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS:20/25) Field Test (December 28, 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 (December 22, 2023)
• National Center for Education Statistics – National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2025 Long-Term Trend (LTT) (December 29, 2023)