Open Data: New Federal Policy and Presidential Executive Order
On May 9th, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order on open data, making “open and machine readable” the new default for government information. The order is supported by a memorandum on Open...
View ArticlePew Research: Lessons from the German Census
D’Vera Cohn of the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project writes about the 2011 German census, how the results exposed pitfalls in German administrative record-keeping, and how...
View ArticleOnline Headlines: Government Surveys – How Statisticians Protect Your Identity
A down-to-earth defense of public survey-research and explanation of respondent privacy, by David Morganstein, Tom Krenzke, and Sylvia Dohrmann of Westat: Government surveys get a bad rap. Detractors...
View ArticleU.S. Federal Data Websites and the Shutdown
Beginning October 1, 2013, the U.S. government entered a partial shutdown. Major federal data web sites have been affected to varying degrees. As of October 8 (updated): Census Bureau — OFFLINE. “Due...
View ArticleOnline Headlines: Without Key Jobs Data, Markets And Economists Left Guessing
Though the Bureau of Labor Statistics website remains online on Day 4 of the U.S. federal government partial shutdown, the last update to the site was made on September 30. The Department of Labor...
View ArticleOnline Headlines: Microbiome Meets Big Social Science
From the UW-Madison News: A September workshop sponsored by the Center for the Demography and Health and Aging and the Center for Demography and Ecology, sought to bring UW-Madison biologists and...
View ArticleOnline Headlines: Social Scientists Hit Back at NSF Grant Rules
From Scientific American, 12 November 2013: It is not unusual for conservative politicians in the United States to question the value of social-science research. Studies of anything from global social...
View ArticleLong term impacts caused by changes to the Canadian Census
In June 2010, the Canadian Parliament decided to eliminate the required long form census questionnaire, and instead switch to an optional survey. Al Jazerra America has published an article entitled...
View ArticleUnited Nations Population Fund Release Annual Population Report – October 17,...
Today, the United Nations Population Fund released their annual “State of the World Population” report (.pdf format, 152p.). The theme of this year’s report is “The Power of Choice: Reproductive Rights...
View ArticleHigh School Seniors’ Co-Residential Union Expectations
The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR) at the Bowling Green State University just published three profiles exploring high school seniors’ attitudes toward and expectations...
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