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Going offline

Vilhuber — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:02:23 +0000

This website is no longer active. It has been migrated to https://archives.vrdc.cornell.edu/ncrn.info/. You can also consult the Web Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.ncrn.info/.

For any questions regarding the NSF-Census Research Network, please feel free to contact the Labor Dynamics Institute at Cornell University.

New ACS Online Tool

Melissa Colbeth — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:02:37 +0000

The margins of error on many tract level estimates from the American Community Survey are very large and this poses a problem to a wide swath of ACS users.

RSD Research Education Program 2018 Short Course Lineup

Melissa Colbeth — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:27:06 +0000

The Responsive Survey Design (RSD) Research Education Program is excited to
announce its 2018 short course lineup!

Following up on the success of last year’s inaugural RSD Program short courses, as
part of the University of Michigan Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques, the
program has expanded its list of short course offerings.

Release of CED2AR 2.9.0.0 (Metadata management and editing software)

admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:32:27 +0000

We released CED2AR v2.9.0.0 for download. The software is deployed on our live CED2AR instances as well, including the live demo at https://demo.ncrn.cornell.edu.

New Features

The following high level features have been added in this release:

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OMB seeking guidance on new techniques and methodologies based on combining data from multiple sources

Vilhuber — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:29:19 +0000

OMB is seeking information on the following:

(1) Current and emerging techniques for linking and analyzing combined data; (2) on-going research on methods to describe the quality of statistical products that result from these techniques; (3) computational frameworks and systems for conducting such work; (4) privacy or confidentiality issues that may arise from combining such data; and (5) suggestions for additional research in those or related areas.

Forthcoming Synthetic Business Data in Canada announced

admin — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:29:14 +0000

The Canadian Productivity Partnership announced on November 15, 2017 that

Census Bureau team awarded a Commerce Department Gold Medal for Leadership

Vilhuber — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Many NCRN members benefit from the presence of a Federal Statistical Research Data Center near or on their campus. The fabulous people in the Research and Methodology Directorate who make this possible were awarded a Gold Medal Award during the Commerce Department's Honor Awards Program on September 26, for

"their dedication, professionalism, and willingness to go the extra mile necessary for the department to provide the best possible service to the American people."

The award noted that

NSF-Census Research Network releases summary report on activities through 2017

Vilhuber — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:23:03 +0000

The National Science Foundation-Census Bureau Research Network (NCRN) has conducted research activities since 2011. The activities to date have covered both fundamental and applied statistical research and have focused at least in part on the training of current and future generations of researchers in skills of relevance to surveys and alternative measurement of economic units, households, and persons.

Census Bureau @ Cornell Seminar Series

admin — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:25:15 +0000

CISER and the Labor Dynamics Institute have partnered to invite a number of Census Bureau researchers to present on a variety of topics at Cornell University. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about exciting research done at the largest US statistical agency, research behind the economic, demographic, geographic, sociological data that many applied researchers use in their research.

The NSF-Census Research Network has been awarded the American Statistical Association’s Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award

Melissa Colbeth — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:04:35 +0000

Baltimore, MD The National Science Foundation-Census Research Network (NCRN) has been awarded the American Statistical Association’s Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award. The award recognizes excellence in collaboration between academe, industry, and government that results in significant contributions to statistics with applications to real-world problems.