Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update APDU 2011 Annual Conference Public Data on a Budget: Making Critical Policy Decisions in the Current Fiscal Climate September 21-22, 2011 George Washington University, The Cloyd Heck Marvin Center 800 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 Preliminary Agenda Registration Form […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update APDU 2011 Annual Conference Public Data on a Budget: Making Critical Policy Decisions in the Current Fiscal Climate September 21-22, 2011 George Washington University, The Cloyd Heck Marvin Center 800 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 Preliminary Agenda Registration Form […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items Census Bureau Announces Field Management Reforms The Census Bureau recently announced a realignment of its national field office structure and management reforms designed to keep pace with modern survey collection methods. This new structure is expected to reduce costs by an estimated […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items ACS Internet Notification Strategies Follow-up Test Shows Positive Results The Census Bureau recently filed papers with the Office of Management and Budget for permission to amend its ACS internet test in light of recent positive findings. Preliminary results from the 2011 ACS […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items House Fails to Pass Amendments Reducing Funding for USDA Statistical Agencies Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) recently proposed amendments to H.R. 2112 that would significantly reduce spending for key statistical agencies in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items Guardian DataBlog Highlights New Data and Visualizations from Around the World The website of the U.K. newspaper The Guardian publishes a blog of timely data updates from sources around the world. The DataBlog indexes data by topic, has a data explorer that […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items Bureau of Transportation Statistics Announces Upcoming Webinar Schedule The Bureau of Transportation Statistics recently announced its webinar schedule for 2011. Webinars will feature overviews of BTS data and include question and answer sessions. All webinars begin at 3 p.m. Eastern as follows: Airline […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items Senate Bill Would Give Census Director a Fixed Five-year Term; Removes Senate Confirmation for BJS and NCES Heads S. 679, recently introduced at the committee level by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), proposes a fixed, five-year term for the Census Bureau Director and […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items NSF Releases Pilot Tabulation Engine for Survey of Earned Doctorates The SED Tabulation Engine is a pilot data tool that the National Science Foundation is testing to provide access to selected variables from the Survey of Earned Doctorates. The tabulation engine includes […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items 2010 U.S. Decennial Census in an International Context 2010 and 2011 have marked major census data releases in the U.S. and around the world. As data analysis continues to wrap up, opportunities exist for putting U.S. Decennial Census statistics in context […]