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
Population Association of America (PAA) and Association of Population Centers (APC) submit comments in response to “ Fundamental Responsibilities of Recognized Statistical Agencies and Units,” a proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) also known as the Trust...
comments on OMB Trust Regulation 9-23.pdf
In a July 12 Federal Register notice , the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that Demography and Population Studies (CIP code 45.0501) is one of eight new programs being added to the DHS science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) designated degree programs...
On Thursday, February 16, the Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity , an inter-agency advisory group led by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), sponsored a (by invitation only) listening session to receive input on potential revisions to the current...
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 on NIH data sharing and mgt policy re privacy framework FINAL.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...