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The following is the program for the seventeenth Annual Conference
of the Association of Public Data Users.
If you are interested in the collection, dissemination  and utilization
of public data, please consider joining us at the Sheraton City Centre
in Washington, DC on November 2, 3, 4. (Be sure to get your absentee
ballot!)

Workshops on Using GIS and Using 1990 STFs will be held on Sunday,
November 1.

Registration is $275 for APDU members, $475 for non-members, and
$525 for individuals who would like to both attend and join the
Association at the same time.

For more information, contact APDU@PUCC.  We will send you a copy
of the formal brochure, a complimentary copy of our monthly
Newsletter, and a Membership Information Bulletin.  Please enclose
your postal mailing address.


MONDAY, November 2, 1992
8:00    REGISTRATION (Coffee and Danish)

9:00    PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME
        Pat Doyle, President,
        1992 APDU Board of Directors

9:15    PAST DISCOVERIES . . . FUTURE DIRECTIONS
        KEYNOTE:   Janet Norwood, Senior Fellow,
        The Urban Institute

        DISCUSSION:
        Hermann Habermann, Chief, Statistical Policy,
        Office of Management and Budget

        Katherine K. Wallman, Executive Director,
        Council of Professional Associations on
        Federal Statistics

10:30   BREAK

11:00   OMB CIRCULAR A-130 & ACCESS TO
        PUBLIC DATA: WHERE DO WE GO NEXT?
        Moderator: John Weiner, Director, Information
        Services, Energy Information Administration,
        U.S. Department of Energy

        Bruce McConnell, Chief, Information Policy,
        Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs,
        Office of Management and Budget

        DISCUSSION:
        Judith Rowe, Manager, Research Services,
        Computing and Information Technology,
        Princeton University

        Kenneth Thibodeau, Director, Center for
        Electronic Records, National Archives and
        Records Administration

        Courtenay Slater, Slater-Hall
        Information Products

12:30   LUNCH
        SPEAKER: Carol Carson, Director,
        Bureau of Economic Analysis

 2:15   PLENARY SESSION

        THE ELECTRONIC AGE AND THE
        GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
        Moderator: Diane Geraci, Social Science
        and Data Librarian, State University of
        New York at Binghamton

        GPO/2001: STRATEGY FOR A NEW
        MILLENIUM
        William A. Hohns, Deputy Public Printer,
        Government Printing Office

        LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS TO PROVIDE
        ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT INFORMATION TO
        THE PEOPLE
        John Merritt, Staff Director,  and
        Bernadine Hoduski, Professional Staff
        Joint Committee on Printing

         COALITION FOR NETWORKED INFORMATION:
         MODELS FOR INTERNET ACCESS
         John L. Hankins, Assistant Director,
         CICNet, Inc.

3:40   BREAK

4:00   CONCURRENT SESSIONS  (choose A or B)

       SESSION A:   THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
                    COMMISSION: DATA AND ACCESS
       Moderator: Thomas E. Brown, Chief, Archival
       Services Branch, Center for Electronic
       Records, National Archives and
       Administration

       THE SEC'S ELECTRONIC DISSEMINATION
       EXPERIENCE
       David Coperhafer, Deputy Director, Office
       of EDGAR Management, Securities and
       Exchange Commission

       FOIA,  COPYRIGHT,  AND THE SEC'S
       EDGAR SYSYEM
       Sarah E. Cox-Byrne, University of Connecticut
       Law School

       THE VIEW FROM THE NEWSROOM
       Diana Henriques, Financial Writer,
       New York Times

       SESSION B:  HEALTH DATA FOR THE 1990s
       Moderator: Deborah Gona, Director, State
       Policy and Innovations, Council of State
       Governments

       ISSUES IN GATHERING HEALTH DATA ON
       MINORITY POPULATIONS
       Robert Murphy, Director, Division of
       Health Examination Statistics,
       Centers for Disease Control

       PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL PERCEPTIONS
       OF HEALTH CARE IN THE U.S.
       Sue Dodd, Institute for Research in Social
       Science, University of North Carolina

       WHAT IS THE NATIONAL MEDICAL EXPENDITURE
       SURVEY AND WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG TO
       RELEASE THE DATA?
       D.E.B. Potter, Manager, NMES Public Use
       Tapes, Division of Medical Expenditure
       Studies, Agency for Health Care Policy
       and Research

       PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS
       Steve Einbender, Chief, Public Health
       Data Systems Section, Public Information
       Branch, Office of the Director, Centers
       for Disease Control

6:00   RECEPTION

TUESDAY, November 3, 1992
8:30   REGISTRATION (Coffee and Danish)

9:00   CHARTING THE NEW FOREIGN TRADE
       Moderator: Steve Dienstfry, Chief,
       Strategic Planning Division, U.S.
       Department of Veterans Affairs

       BEHIND AND BEYOND THE NUMBERS
       Anne Y. Kester, Committee on National
       Statistics, National Academy of Sciences

       REFINING JAPANESE-AMERICAN TRADE DATA
       Joseph W. Duncan, Vice President/Chief
       Statistician, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation

10:00   BREAK

10:30   CONCURRENT SESSIONS  (choose A or B)

        SESSION A: BEA'S REGIONAL ECONOMIC DATA
        ON CD-ROM:  NEW USES AND USERS
        Moderator: Kenneth Berkman, Regional Economic
        Measurement Division, Bureau of Economic
        Analysis

        TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE REIS CD-ROM
        James Breece, Department of Economics,
        University of Maine

        USING THE REIS CD-ROM IN THE LIBRARY
        ENVIRONMENT
        Richard Leacy, Gilbert Library,
        Georgia Institute of Technology

        THE REIS CD-ROM IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY
        Anne Dunthorn, CF Systems

        SESSION B: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE APPLICATION OF
        IMMIGRATION DATA
        Moderator: B. Lindsay Lowell, Demographer,
        Immigration Policy & Research,
        U.S. Department of Labor

        ESTIMATING NON-DEPARTURES OF VISITORS
        TO THE UNITED STATES
        Robert Warren, Director, Statistical Division,
        U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

        THE FUTURE IMMIGRANT POPULATION OF
        THE UNITED STATES
        Jeffrey Passel, Director, Program for Research
        on Immigration Policy, Urban Institute

         USING IMMIGRATION DATA FOR PLANNING
         AT A LOCAL LEVEL
         Joseph J. Salvo, Deputy Director, Population
         Division, New York City Department of Planning

12:00   LUNCHEON  (Mix 'n Mingle)

 1:30   CONCURRENT SESSIONS

        SESSION A:  DISTRIBUTION MEDIA: DIFFERENT USES,
        DIFFERENT USERS
        Moderator: Carolyn L. Geda, Assistant
        Director, Inter-University Consortium
        for Political and Social Research

        INTEGRATING DIFFERENT DATA SERVICES FOR
        DIFFERENT USERS USING DIFFERENT MEDIA
        Jim Jacobs, Data Services Librarian
        University of California - San Diego

        USER REQUIREMENTS FOR DATA SHARING
        Ann Gray, Data Archivist, Cornell
        Institute for Social and Economic Research

        DATA TRANSMISSION AND STORAGE
        TECHNIQUES USED BY MATHEMATICA
        POLICY RESEARCH, INC.
        Bob Cohen, Senior Systems Analyst,
        Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

        DATA DISTRIBUTION AND STORAGE
        MEDIA:  THE NEXT GENERATION
        Janet Vavra, Technical Director,
        Inter-University Consortium for Social
        and Political Research

        SESSION B: THE FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONSHIP IN
        THE COLLECTION OF BLS LABOR MARKET
        INFORMATION
        Moderator: Gary Crossley, Research Director,
        Interstate Conference of Employment
        Security Agencies

        THE FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONSHIP:
        AN OVERVIEW
        Martin Ziegler, Assistant Commissioner for
        Federal and State Programs, Bureau of Labor
        Statistics

        A DATA PRODUCER'S PERSPECTIVE
        Richard Groner, Chief, Labor Market
        Information, District of Columbia

        A DATA USER'S PERSPECTIVE
        Robert Gasperow, Executive Director,
        Construction Labor Research Council

2:45    BREAK

3:00    PLENARY SESSION

        METROPOLITAN AREA DEFINITIONS:
        1990 AND BEYOND
        Moderator: Roy C. Treadway, Census and Data
        Users Services, Illinois State University

        METROPOLITAN AREAS: 1990
        Maria E. Gonzalez, Statistical Policy
        Branch, Office of Information and
        Regulatory Affairs, Office of Manage-
        ment and Budget

        METROPOLITAN AREAS FOR THE FUTURE: A
        REVIEW OF THE STATISTICAL AREA CONCEPTS
        Jim Fitzsimmons, Population Division,
        U.S. Bureau of the Census,

        EXPLORATION OF ALTERNATIVE
        CLASSIFICATIONS OF METROPOLITAN
        CONCEPTS
        Alden Speare, Department of Sociology,
        Brown University

        NEW METROPOLITAN AREA DEFINITIONS:
        DOES THE PRIVATE SECTOR CARE?
        Edward J. Spar, Independent Consultant

5:30    OPEN BOARD MEETING  (All attendees welcome)

7:30    ELECTION NIGHT OPEN HOUSE
        APDU Suite (beverages, snacks,
        and crying towels available)

 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1992

8:45    APDU:  THE  YEAR  BEHIND  AND
        THE  YEAR  AHEAD
        Pat Doyle, President,
        1992 APDU Board of Directors

9:00    NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN CENSUS
        BUREAU PRODUCTS  AND  PROGRAMS
        Moderator: Marie Argana, Asst. Chief
        for User Services, Data User Service
        Division, Bureau of the Census

        1990 PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE
        Carmen Campbell, Public Use Microdata
        Sample Coordinator, Data User Services
        Division, Bureau of the Census

        NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE SURVEY OF
        INCOME AND PROGRAM PARTICIPATION (SIPP)
        Enrique Lamas, Special Assistant for
        SIPP, Housing & Household Economics
        Division, Bureau of the Census

        1992 ECONOMIC CENSUSES
        Paul Zeisset, Special Assistant, Economic
        Censuses & Surveys Division, Bureau of the
        Census

10:30   BREAK

10:45   DESIGN  OPTIONS  FOR  THE  YEAR  2000
        CENSUS:  AN  OVERVIEW  OF  THE  ISSUES
        Moderator: Katherine K. Wallman, Chair, Year
        2000 Census Advisory Committee

        Harry Scarr, Deputy Assistant Secretary
        for Statistical Affairs, US Department
        of Commerce and Chair, Policy Committee, Year
        2000 Census

        David McMillen, Senate Subcommittee on
        Government Information and Regulation

        Terri Ann Lowenthal, Staff Director,
        House Subcommittee on Census and Population

        Barry Edmonston, Study Director, Panel
        on Census Rquirements for the Year 2000
        and Beyond, National Academyc of Sciences

12:00   LUNCH
        SPEAKER: Barbara Bryant, Director,
        Bureau of the Census

2:00    DESIGN ALTERNATIVES FOR THE
        YEAR 2000 CENSUS
        This session is being organized by
        Katherine E. Wallman and Harry Scarr.
        Format and content will be determined
        by current policies and actions.

3:30    FORMAL ADJOURNMENT