Comments in response to: Request for Information on Opportunities, Challenges, and Emerging Areas in Statistical Data, Analysis, and Research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture #LettersandComments #GPAC2026 #Data
comments in response to USDA data products RFI 4-26.pdf
PAA and APC submitted these comments in response to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Policy (OSP): Request for Information on Draft NIH Controlled-Access Data Policy and Proposed Revisions to NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy #LettersandComments #GPAC2026 #NIH #Data
PAA APC comments re NIH data policy 3-26.pdf
PAA and APC joined APDU's response to Federal Register Notice 2026-02234, 91 FR 5155 , which included a summary of concerns about Treasury's proposed new system of records. #LettersandComments #GPAC2026 #Data
PAA and APC join this comment [submitted in response to Federal Register Notice 89 FR 58219 (July 24, 2025)] to express serious concern regarding the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) decision to remove gender identity demographic questions from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)....
September NCVS Public Comment.pdf
PAA and APC signed this letter to Census, BJS, and OMB to express deep concern about BJS's decision to remove questions about gender identity and about hate crimes against transgender people from the NCVS in contradiction to the requirements in the Hate Crimes Statistics Act (HCSA). This...
06.09.2025_NCVS Letter_Final.pdf
During the week of January 27, 2025, data from federal agency websites and portals began disappearing, including data produced by the U.S. Census Bureau, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Agency for International Development. Although some of these data have since been...
As the presidents of the Population Association of America and the Association of Population Centers , we are writing to express our alarm about recent events in which federal agencies have been purging scientific and statistical data from publicly available portals and websites. ...
FINAL PAA APC statement on federal data purge 2-25.pdf
This bipartisan effort resulted in 141 signatures from a wide range of organizations and businesses and could not have been achieved without the leadership of Erica Groshen, Bill Beach, and Paul Schroeder. This letter alert the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to an emergent threat to...
PAA and APC submitted on December 14 in response to the NIH “Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on Opportunities and Challenges for the Collection, Use, and Sharing of Real-World Data (RWD) including Electronic Health Records, for NIH Supported Biomedical and...
PAA APC comments on NIH real world data RFI FINAL 12-23.pdf
PAA and APC Presidents submitted comments in response to a request for comments from OMB regarding a potential change to Statistical Policy No. 3. The proposal seeks to allow Executive Branch employees to comment publicly on Principal Federal Economic Indicator data thirty minutes after the...
PAA APC comments on OMB Statistical Directive Policy 3 10-23.pdf