Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items Federal Budget Update On March 4, 2011 the latest Continuing Resolution (CR) for financing the federal government will expire, possibly leading to a shutdown of the federal government if Congress and the White House cannot reach a compromise. House Appropriations Committee […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items The Case for Enhanced National Business Dynamics Statistics and How to Get There AmstatNews, the magazine of the American Statistical Association, recently published a piece by E.J. Reedy of the Kauffman Foundation on business dynamics in the national statistical system, “How the […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items Census Releases ACS 2005-2009 Summary File in DataFerrett The Census Bureau recently released the ACS 2005-2009 Summary File in its DataFerrett web application. DataFerret packages data in six different file formats for users, including SAS, SPSS, and Stata, and provides additional […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items Census Director Groves to Conduct Webcast Press Briefing On February 2, 2011 at 2 p.m. EST, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves will brief the media on the upcoming release of state redistricting data products. The briefing will include a live webcast, […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items Census Bureau Debuts Reinvented American FactFinder The Census Bureau released an overhauled version of American FactFinder this week. When fully implemented, the new FactFinder is projected to have about 250 billion data cells in more than 40,000 tables. Some of the enhanced […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update News Items Census Bureau Releases 2011 Edition of the Statistical Abstract The Census Bureau recently released the 2011 edition of the Statistical Abstract. Contained in the 130th edition are 1,407 tables of social, political, and economic facts that collectively describe the state of […]
Association of Public Data Users APDU Data Update January 6, 2011 News Items BEA Announces Compensation Results for U.S. Workers Compensation declined in two-thirds of the 3,113 counties in the U.S. in 2009. Total compensation of U.S. workers declined 3.2 percent in 2009, as average annual compensation per job grew 1.2 percent to $56,962. […]
APDU Data Update December 16, 2010 News Items ACS Primer Just in time for the 5-year ACS data release, CQ Press has created a website containing selected articles from the upcoming “Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census, 2nd Edition: From the Constitution to the ACS,” edited by APDU members Constance Citro and Joseph Salvo. Census […]
APDU Data Update December 9, 2010 APDU Election Update Thank you to the many APDU members who have voted so far in the 2011 APDU election for president, vice president and at-large board member. If you have not received your instructions for voting, check for a reminder message dated December 7 or December 9, from […]
APDU Data Update November 30, 2010 APDU Board Candidates Announced President – Robert L. Scardamalia, Consultant, RLS Demographics, Inc., Rensselaerville, NY Vice-President – Warren A. Brown, Senior Public Service Associate, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, Athens, GA At-large Board Member: Susan Ockert, Senior Research Economist, Montana Dept. of Commerce, Helena, MT […]