APC, APDU, COPAFS, ICPSR, and PAA Statement on Commerce’s Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products On June 4, 2026 the Department of Commerce issued a new order “Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products” (DAO 216-26) that limits the types of privacy protection methods that...
Joint Statement on Commerce Disclosure Avoidance v2.pdf
PAA & APC joined this statement to urge the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to schedule a confirmation hearing for James O'Neill, the President's nominee to serve as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), without delay and ahead of a vote. ...
The Population Association of America (PAA) and Association of Population Centers (APC) share the scientific research community’s concerns regarding recent actions taken by the Administration threatening the integrity of the National Science Foundation (NSF) overall and the NSF Social,...
The Population Association of America (PAA) and Association of Population Centers (APC) are alarmed by a proposal in the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget that seeks to eliminate the NSF SBE Directorate. Our organizations’ concerns are heightened by reports that NSF is taking steps to...
PAA APC statement on NSF SBE 4-26 FINAL.pdf
On behalf of the hundreds of organizations representing data users in the public, private, non-profit, and research sectors that submitted comments to the Department of Commerce and U.S. Census Bureau regarding proposed changes to the 2026 Census Test, we are writing to express our concerns and...
Final statement on 2026 Census Test.pdf
On behalf of the organizations we represent, the Population Association of America (PAA) and Association of Population Centers (APC), we are responding to the President’s purported call for a new, mid-decade census that would, for the first time ever, exclude undocumented immigrants. ...
PAA APC statement on special census 8-25 FINAL.pdf
PAA and APC signed a statement addressing cuts to health surveys and data collections at HHS. The statement was organized by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). #PublicStatements #GPAC2025
Statement on the Dismantling of Essential Federal Health Surveys and Data Collection.pdf
The PAA and APC Executive Committees formally adopted and signed a resolution on March 19, 2025. The resolution urges Congress and the Administration take several steps to redress recent policies and actions that are adversely affecting the population sciences, researchers, and students. The...
PAA APC resolution for Advocacy Day 2025 SIGS.pdf
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. ...