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Following is the agenda for the eighteenth annual conference of the
Association of Public Data Users.  Sorry for the cross-posting!


PUBLIC DATA IN THE 90'S: APPLICATIONS,OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES


CONFERENCE DATES
November 1, 2 and 3, 1993

LOCATION
Sheraton City Centre
1143 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20037
(202) 775-0800
(near the Foggy Bottom Metro stop)

REGISTRATION FEES
APDU members                   $290
Non-Members                    $490
Conference plus New Membership $560*

(*This rate does not apply to membership renewals.)

Take a $25 reduction if your registration is postmarked by
October 8, 1993 and is accompanied by a check or purchase order.
Fees, less $50 for processing, will be refunded if cancellation
notification is received before October 22, 1993.

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
Detach form on the last page and return to:
Association of Public Data Users
87 Prospect Avenue
Princeton, NJ 08544

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Contact APDU at (609) 258-6025
FAX: (609) 258-3943
BITNET: APDU@PUCC
INTERNET: apdu@pucc.princeton.edu

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Attendees are responsible for making their hotel reservations.
APDU has a block of rooms reserved at the Sheraton City Centre
that are available until October 4 at the following rates:
 Single         $124 plus tax
 Double         $139 plus tax

The hotel is making these special rates available for two days
prior to and two days after the APDU Conference.  The rates are
subj ect to room availability and you must identify yourself as
an APDU Conference attendee.  Make your reservations now!
Reservations made after October 4 will be charged at the normal
room rate of $185/ single.

AIR TRAVEL
Flights terminate in Washington, DC at either National or Dulles
Airports.  Arrivals into National can take the Metro to the hotel
(Foggy Bottom Metro stop) and then walk three blocks to the hotel,
or catch the Washington Flyer bus into the downtown to catch a cab
to the hotel.  (Total cab fare from the airport to the hotel is not
much more than the combined fare for the bus and cab.)  From Dulles
you can catch a cab to the hotel or take the Washington Flyer into
the downtown and there take the Metro or a cab.


PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINARS

Pre-Conference seminars on two topics of special interest to data
users will be offered on Sunday, October 31, from 1:30 to 5:00 PM
at the Sheraton City Centre.  Applications Using 1990 PUMS on CD-ROM
will review the structure and content of the Public Use Microdata
Samples and offer practical advice on how  best to extract, process,
and compile data.  Using CD-ROM Media to Increase Productivity will
present  tape users  with case-by-case  illustrations of how to use
CD-ROM  information systems.  Details on the workshops follow.



MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1

  8:30     Registration (Coffee and Danish)

  9:00     Welcome
           Janie Harris, President
           1993 APDU Board of Directors

  9:15     The Federal Statistical System:
           New Age,  New Priorities?
           Moderator: Edward J. Spar
           Executive Director, Council of Professional
           Associations on Federal Statistics

           Katherine K. Wallman
           Chief, Office of Statistical Policy
           Office of Management and Budget

           Janet Norwood
           Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute

10:15      Break

10:45      A New Age in Electronic Data Dissemination?
           Everett M. Erlich
           Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Designate
           U.S. Department of Commerce

           Discussion
           Moderator: Courtenay M. Slater, Chairman
           Slater-Hall Information Products

           J. Timothy Sprehe
           President, Sprehe Information
           Management Associates

           Cynthia Braddon
           Vice President, Washington Affairs
           McGraw-Hill Inc.

12:00      Lunch
           Speaker: Commissioner
           Bureau of Labor Statistics

 1:30      Data Quality: Hard Questions About Reliability and Validity
           Moderator: Ronald J. Ortiz
           Department of Sociology, St. Lawrence University

           Elementary and Secondary Education
           Common Core of Data
           William J. Fowler, Education Statistician
           Elementary & Secondary Education Statistics
           Division, National Center for Education Statistics

           How Good Are the Data on Disability?
           Terri Guengerich, Research Manager
           Program Development and Research,
           Goodwill Industries of America, Inc.

           The National Medical Expenditure Survey
           Steven B. Cohen, Director
           Division of Statistics and Research Methodology
           Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

  2:45     Break

  3:00     Concurrent Sessions (choose A or B)

                           Session A
           Using Census Data to Target Special Populations:
           Applications from the Private Sector
           Moderator: Linda Piekarski
           Research Director, Survey Sampling Inc.

           Ethnic Targeting Using Surname Matching
           Ron Pitruzzello, Director of Demography
           Donnelley Marketing Information Systems

           Using ZIP Code Data to Target
           High Density Populations
           Lisa C. Olson, Senior Demographer
           The Arbitron Company

           Using Census Data and Mapping Software
           to Target Low Incidence Populations
           Andrew Kulley, Senior Vice President, and
           Lynne Firester, Research Director
           Response Analysis Corporation


                      Session B
           The New Current Population Survey
           Moderator: Thomas Plewes, Associate Commissioner
           for Employment and Unemployment Statistics
           Bureau of Labor Statistics

           What Did BLS and Census Do to the CPS Questionnaire?
           Jack Bregger, Assistant Commissioner for
           Current Employment Analysis
           Bureau of Labor Statistics

           An Automated CPS!
           Chet Bowie, Assistant Division Chief for Current Surveys,
           Demographic Surveys Division
           Bureau of the Census

           A User Looks at the CPS Revision
           Patricia Ruggles, Senior Research Associate
           The Urban Institute

  5:30     Cocktail Reception

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

  8:30     Registration (Coffee and Danish)

  9:00     Issues and Initiatives in Statistical Literacy
           Moderator: Stephen J. Dienstfrey
           U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

           General Overview of Information Literacy
           Patricia Senn Breivik, Chair
           National Forum on Information Literacy

           Statistical Literacy in the Media
           Victor Cohn, Former Science Editor
           The Washington Post

           Population Data Literacy
           Carl Haub, Director of Information Education
           The Population Reference Bureau

10:30      Break

10:45      Concurrent Sessions (choose A or B)

                      Session A
            Local Area Data Applications: Delivery of Services
            Moderator: Paul DesJardin, Regional Planner
            Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

            Using Census Data for Local Decisionmaking
            and Resource Allocation
            Patricia Becker, Executive Director,
            Southeast Michigan Census Council

            Using Local Area Data to Meet
            Human Service Needs
            Swati Desai, Director
            Office of Data Analysis and Research
            New York City Human Resources Administration

            Local Applications Using Current
            Population Estimates
            Michael Batutis, Chief, Population Estimates Branch,
            Population Division, Bureau of the Census

                       Session B
            Criminal Justice Data Availability and Uses
            Moderator: Douglas L. Mills
            CIT/Information Services
            Princeton University

            Data Archiving and Programs in the
            Bureau of Justice Statistics
            Bruce Taylor, Statistician
            Bureau of Justice Statistics

            Assuring Access and Usage of Criminal Justice Data:
            NIJ Data Resources Program
            Pamela K. Lattimore, Senior Researcher
            National Institute of Justice

            Public Criminal Justice Data: Uses and Issues
            Brian Wiersema, Research Coordinator
            Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology
            University of Maryland

12:00       Mix and Mingle Lunch

  1:30      Journalists as Data Users
            Moderator: Bill Dedman
            College of Journalism
            The University of Maryland

            Making Government Data Available
            Kent C. Cooper, Assistant Staff Director For Disclosure,
            Federal Election Commission

            Difficulties in Using Government Data
            Wendell Cochran, Special Projects Editor
            Gannet News Service

            Online Access to Government Data
            Elizabeth A. Marchak, Computer Projects Editor
            The Washington Times

  3:15      Break

  3:30      Concurrent Sessions (choose C or D)

                  Session C
           Data Highways: Network Access to Government Information
           Moderator: Jim Jacobs
           Data Services Librarian
           University of California at San Diego

           Tools for Network Access to Information
           George Brett, Director
           Clearinghouse for Networked Information
           Discovery and Retrieval

           Government Information Available by Network Access
           and Dial-Up
           Joan Lippincott, Assistant Executive Director
           Coalition for Networked Information

           Government Information Access Over the Net:
           Products, Tools, Audiences
           Thomas E. Brown, Center for Electronic Records
           National Archives and Records Administration


                 Session D
           Geographic/Address Update Initiatives
           at the Census Bureau
           Moderator: Robert Marx
           Chief, Geography Division
           Bureau of the Census

           Where Census Bureau Geographic Programs are Going
           Linda Franz, Chief
           Geographic Planning Staff
           Bureau of the Census

           The Private Sector View
           Ken Hodges, Director of Demography
           Claritas/NPDC

           The State/Local View
           John Hedderson, Senior Demographer
           County of Los Angeles


  5:30     Annual Meeting with the Membership
           This is an opportunity for all APDU members to meet
           with the Board of Directors to voice
           concerns, make comments, or raise questions regarding
           the activities of the Association.


WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER  3


  9:00    Who is the Census For?
          Moderator: Edward J.  Spar
          Executive Director, Council of Professional Associations
          on Federal Statistics

  9:30    Break

10:00     Year 2000 Census:  Data Users Perspective
          Moderator: John C. Beresford
          President, The Right Data Company

          The Need for Housing Data
          Michael Carliner, Staff Vice President for
          Economics and Housing Policy,
          National Association of Home Builders

          Census Data and Public Health
          Steven W. Einbender, Chief, Public Health Data
          Systems Section, Information Resource Management Office,
          Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

          Transportation Applications of Census Data
          Alan Pisarski, Private Consultant

          Reflections of a Data Provider
          Paul Voss, Director
          Applied Population Laboratory
          The University of Wisconsin

12:00   Lunch
        Speaker: Director
        U.S. Bureau of the Census

  1:30  Metropolitan Areas in the Year 2000:
        A Change in Philosophy?
        Format and content will be determined by current
        policies and actions

  3:00  Adjournment



SEMINARS

Sunday, October 31, 1993   Sheraton City Centre
1:30 - 5:00 PM

Applications Using the 1990 Public Use Microdata
Samples on CD-ROM
Presenter: Deirdre Gaquin, Private Consultant
For the first time, the Census Bureau is making the PUMS files available
on CD-ROM media.  This seminar is divided into two sections: first,
a presentation on the structure and content of PUMS will be provided;
then, practical information on how best to extract, process and compile
data from CD-ROM PUMS will be discussed and illustrated.  This seminar
is specifically geared toward users who do most of their census data
processing and compilation on microcomputers and wish to extend their
repertoire of applications to PUMS.

Using CD-ROM Media to Increase Productivity
Presenter: Ken Berkman, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Geared toward users who usually rely on mainframe tapes for
data acquisition and analysis, this seminiar will explore how
CD-ROM can be used to supplement and enhance productivity.
Case-by-case illustrations of how to make the best use of CD-ROM
based information systems will be given.  The discussion will
include evaluating mainframe applications and identifying areas
where CD-ROM provides the most cost-effective and efficient media
for using economic, demographic, and social information.  This seminar
will include a survey of available CD-ROM data in several areas,
including population and economic data, as well as other less well-known
substantive areas.



PUBLIC DATA IN THE 90US: APPLICATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES
AND CHALLENGES

The 18th Annual Conference of the Association of Public Data Users will
be held November 1, 2, and 3, 1993 (Monday-Wednesday) at the Sheraton
City Center on New Hampshire Avenue NW, in Washington, DC.

NOTE: Please secure absentee ballots for local elections in your area
if necessary.

CONFERENCE ATTENDEES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING THEIR HOTEL RESERVATIONS.
The Sheraton has set aside a number of rooms for APDU attendees at the
special rates of $124 (plus tax) for a single and $139 (plu  s tax) for
a double.  These rates will hold only until October 4, 1993 and you must
state that you are attending the APDU conference.  The hotel will charge
its normal room rate ($185/single) after that date. If you are reasonably
sure that you will attend, make your reservation NOW rather than waiting
for your paperwork to clear.

The Sheraton City Centre is offering the special room rate for two
days before and after the Conference.  Individuals who are staying
over after the national State Data Center meeting can request these
rates, subject to availability.  Other special weekend rates may
also be available.

Rates for conference attendance are indicated on the facing page.
You may DEDUCT $25 from the registration fee if your registration
form is postmarked before October 8, 1993.  PAYMENT OR PURCHASE ORDER
MUCH ACCOMPANY YOUR REGISTRATION IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR THE $25
DISCOUNT.  Registrations not accompanied will be billed at the full
rate regardless of date of receipt.  Refunds, less $50 for processing,
will be made if notification or cancellation is received prior to
October 22, 1993.

The opening reception, luncheons, and coffee breaks are included in
the registration fee.

Individuals who are interested in becoming members of the Association
can take advantage of a combined conference/membership rate of $560.
For only $70 more than the non-member rate for registration,
an attendee who is not presently an APDU member can enroll in
the Association for one year.  This special rate entitles you
to all of the benefits of membership.

PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINARS will be conducted on-site and are $60 each.
Please register for only one seminar.  Space is limited.  The Using
PUMS seminar is geared toward data users who do most of their census
processing and compilation on microcomputers.  The CD-ROM Media
seminar is geared toward data users who usually rely on mainframe
tapes for data acquisition and analysis.

If you have questions, call the APDU office at (609) 258-6025
between 9:30 AM and 4:30 PM.  Our BITNET address is apdu@pucc,
Internet address is apdu@pucc.princeton.edu.  Our fax number is
(609) 258-3943.

PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR REGISTRATION

NAME___________________________________________________________________

TITLE__________________________________________________________________

ORGANIZATION___________________________________________________________

ADDRESS________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

TELEPHONE______________________________________________________________

REGISTER  ME  FOR:  ____ USING PUMS        ____ CD-ROM
  (choose one)


***Please Enclose $60 Payment ($70 for non-members)***Seating is limited

____________________________(Detach)____________________________________



CONFERENCE  REGISTRATION  FORM

NAME____________________________________________________________________

TITLE___________________________________________________________________

ORGANIZATION____________________________________________________________

ADDRESS_________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

TELEPHONE_________________________ STAYING AT THE SHERATON?_________

REGISTRATION FEE (check one)
[   ]   APDU Member               $290.00
[   ]   Non-Member                 490.00
[   ]   Conference/NEW Membership  560.00

[   ]   $25 reduction if postmarked
        by October 8, 1993
Registration total                 ______

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
(choose one session from each time slot)
MONDAY   3:00
Session A: Special Populations  [   ]
Session B: Current Population Survey [   ]
TUESDAY 10:45
Session A: Local Area Data   [   ]
Session B: Criminal Justice Data   [   ]
TUESDAY   3:30
Session C: Network Access  [   ]
Session D: Geo/Address Updates [   ]

CHECK ONE:

[   ]   Payment or Purchase Order enclosed
[   ]   Invoice on Purchase Order # __________

Make check payable to Association of Public Data Users and return
with this form to:  APDU93
                    87 Prospect Avenue
                    Princeton, NJ 08544