Comments PAA and APC sent in response to NIH RFI, “Request for Public Comments on DRAFT Supplemental Information to the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing: Protecting Privacy When Sharing Human Research Participant Data” #LettersandComments #NIH #Data
PAA APC comments onNIH data sharing and mgt 6-22.pdf
On April 22, the Equitable Data Working Group (EDWG) released a report on advancing the use of equitable data in the federal government. Established in response to President Biden’s Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal...
PAA and APC signed this letter urging the Senate and House Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations to appropriate at least $250 million for the Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) at the Centers for Disease Control and...
FY23 Appropriations Sign on Letter_DMI and CFA.pdf
PAA COPS prepared these comments in response to a proposal from the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy to create Standard Application Process (SAP) for Requesting Access to Certain Confidential Data Assets. #LettersandComments #GPAC2022 #Data
PAA APC comments on OMB SAP proposal 3-22.pdf
PAA and APC join other in signing this letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), urging them to revisit standards on federal data on race and ethnicity. #LettersandComments #RacialandEthnicDisparities #Data
Sign-on letter to OMB re revision of race and ethnicity data standards-final_3-4-2022 (1) (1).pdf
On October 26, PAA President Robert Hummer and APC President Sara Curran presented remarks to members of the White House Equitable Data Working Group (EDWG). The EDWG, which established as was as part of Presidential Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved...
Outline of EDWG remarks 10-21 FINAL.pdf
As population scientists, most of our data come from large, government-collected or supported surveys or registries. Our members are very involved in developing surveys, testing respondent strategies, and making comparisons across large population surveys. Our scientists also value the ability...
PAA APC comments to NIH re CDE RFI 5-21 FINAL.pdf
On April 28, the U.S. Census Bureau released a new set of “demonstration data” to help the data user community evaluate the latest update to the new Disclosure Avoidance System to enhance protection of 2020 Census redistricting. The demonstration data use previously released 2010 Census data...
December 12, 2018 We are writing to you as representatives of organizations whose members include census data users from the public, private, and academic sectors to communicate our interest in protecting census data confidentiality. As you know, internal Department of Justice (DoJ)...
On January 22, 2018, PAA President Wendy Manning and APC President Steve Ruggles sent this letter to White House official, Ms. Neomi Rao, expressing concern about inaction on possible revisions to the Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. #GPAC...
letter-to-OMB-re_-revised-racial-and-ethnic-standards-delay-1-18.pdf