The coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented in recent history. To meet this challenge, the U.S. Census Bureau, in collaboration with other federal statistical agencies, has developed two new experimental surveys: a Household Pulse Survey and a Small Business Pulse Survey. This webinar will provide an overview of the household survey, including the following: What type of […]
Continue ReadingHave you ever looked for data from ACS or CPS, but published tables did not have exactly what you needed? Have you ever wished you could create quick crosstabs without writing code? The Census Bureau is developing a new microdata access feature on data.census.gov that allows users to create custom crosstabulations from ACS and CPS. […]
Continue ReadingIn July 2019, the Census Bureau released the Business Formation Statistics (BFS), a new data product that tracks trends in business applications and formations at the state, regional and national levels. This November 14 webinar will introduce you to this useful new data source.
Continue ReadingThis webinar will provide a background on Disclosure Avoidance, details on the policy decisions leading to Differential Privacy and its subsequent implementation, and comparisons of recently released data comparing previously available 2010 Census data with data demonstrating the impact of Differential Privacy.
Continue ReadingFive years ago, staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics had to read and manually code hundreds of thousands of written descriptions of work-related injuries and illnesses each year. Today, more than two thirds of these codes are now assigned by a deep neural network, which evaluations suggest is substantially more accurate on average than trained human workers.
Continue ReadingWhen the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking issued its unanimous recommendations to Congress in 2017, it called for the exploration of new approaches that promote data access and privacy preservation at the same time. This webinar discusses an application of one such technology – multi-party computation – in a real-world setting to assess the applicability of the approach in public agencies.
Continue ReadingIn this demonstration, Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service will provide a general overview of the Data Lab and its guiding principles and values. The Data Transparency team will discuss the Data Lab’s relationship to USAspending.gov and our commitment to open data, human-centered design, and agile development. We will examine some Data Lab analyses, such […]
Continue ReadingUSDA Research Relocation and Reorganization: Perspectives from Former USDA Chief Scientists and Administrators Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in August caught Congress and USDA stakeholders by surprise with a proposal to relocate the USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) outside of the Washington, DC area and to […]
Continue ReadingThis June the White House released a proposal that would shift the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the Department of Labor to the Department of Commerce, joining with the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau under a single economics and statistics agency. Join us for a facilitated conversation with Dr. Ken Poole […]
Continue ReadingThe ABS will replace the Survey of Business Owners for employer businesses, the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, the Business R&D and Innovation Survey for Microbusinesses, as well as the Innovation component of the Business R&D and Innovation Survey. This webinar will give a background on the ABS, the survey components it has absorbed, and briefly discuss methodology and planned data product tabulation levels.
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