Census: Updated QuickFacts Tables Available & Release of 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year PUMS
Summary profiles for geographic areas have been updated with the most recent information from frequently requested statistics from various Census Bureau programs including the 2010 Census, 2010 American Community Survey and 2007 Survey of Business Owners. These easy to access and easy to use tables are now available for the nation, state and counties and have expanded from places with populations of 25,000 or more to places with 5,000 or more. Tables also provide links to more detailed data sets.Direct to U.S. Census QuickFacts and U.S. Census Bureau Releases 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year PUMS
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files. PUMS files from the ACS show the full range of population and housing unit responses collected on individual ACS questionnaires. These files enable users to design tabulations that aggregate responses differently than the published data products. The PUMS files contain records for a subsample of ACS housing units and group quarters persons. As required by federal law, the confidentiality of ACS respondents is protected through a variety of steps to disguise or suppress original data while making sure the results are still useful. In addition to modifying the individual records, respondents' confidentiality is protected because only large geographic areas are identified in the PUMS. To read more about how the PUMS files are created, browse code lists, and look-up subjects in the PUMS, please visit the PUMS Documentation Page. The PUMS data is accessible now via the FTP site. Links can be found on our PUMS Data Page. On October 27, 2011 the data will also be accessible via American FactFinder.See Also: Poverty: 2009 and 2010 Also new from the U.S. Census. Continue reading
Posted Online: Letter from 31 Regional Federal Depository Coordinators to GPO & Other Letters
The letter, made available by ARL, is dated October 19, 2011 and begins:
We write as coordinators of regional depository libraries to express our deep concern over GPO's recent responses to two initiatives within the FDLP system. Given these responses, and the rejection of the 2011 Ithaka S+R report (Modeling a Sustainable Future of the Federal Depository Library Program in the 21st Century), we do not believe that GPO recognizes the gravity of the current situation in many regional federal depository libraries, and does not appear to be making efforts to understand this situation or to creatively partner with regional libraries or groups of depository libraries to help ameliorate the situation.Read the Complete Letter (4 pages; PDF) Here are two more letters re: FDLP made available by ARL today. 1. Greater Western Library Alliance Strongly Supports ARL’s Position On Recent USGPO Decisions 2. Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Strongly Supports ARL’s Position on Recent GPO Decisions 1 page; PDF. Continue reading
More about NTIS Repository Service
Recently, we noted that NTIS is going to offer a Repository Service to Federal Agencies. Here is a followup story:
- A Joint Venture to Create Federal Science Agency Repositories, by Miriam A. Drake, InfoToday (October 20, 2011). This program will help agencies manage their content, make it more accessible to the public while preserving it for NARA and future generations. The agencies also benefit because they do not have to begin at square one to build a repository and metadata. Doing more with less may be possible because costs will be shared.
Coming in 2012: A new American FactFinder [Corrected]
please see the comment below that corrects this post In case you missed it on govdoc-l, check the interesting news about big changes at the Census: A new American FactFinder in 2012, by Steve Beleu, govdoc-l (Mon, 17 Oct 2011).
The current /new American FactFinder/ will be completely revised during 2012. The new AFF that you have been learning, and that we have been giving workshops about, will change from its historic and current basis, which is based on /surveys and programs/, to a/topics /basis. The standard for its ease-of-public-use will be Google. It development will emphasize not desktops but handheld devices such as smartphones (smartphones and such devices are currently accessing the Census website more often than desktop computers are)....Continue reading
New Widget: put text of bills w/features on your web site.
An excellent new tool from Josh Tauberer, creator of GovTrack.us: POPVOX.
Bill text widgets are available on www.popvox.com, which aggregate information about pending bills and let individuals weigh in with a message that is delivered to Congress. Every pending bill is available on POPVOX -- from health and energy, to defense, jobs, and the environment. The bill text embed includes a keyword search and section-by-section table of contents created by POPVOX. To embed the bill text widget, just visit the POPVOX page for any bill, click the tab to "view bill text" and select "embed" from the menu bar at the bottom.Here is an example: S. 1549: American Jobs Act of 2011: Continue reading