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Committee of the U S Congress The Economic Impacts of the 2020 Census and Business Uses of Federal Data May 22 2019 Statement of Howard Fienberg VP Advocacy Insights Association Codirector The Census Project...American business Data from the Census doesn t just underpin American democracy and guide Federal spending they form the backbone of data driven decision making in the private sector This data helps U S businesses...marketing research and data analytics industry Our industry delivers insights to drive good business decisions Research studies in the U S require the most accurate decennial data in order to produce statistically...

WASHINGTON 37 080 2019 S HRG 116 70 THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THE 2020 CENSUS AND BUSINESS USES OF FEDERAL DATA HEARING BEFORE THE JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH CONGRESS...5 Howard Fienberg Vice President Advocacy Insights Association 7 Mallory Bateman Coordinator State Data Center Senior Research Analyst The Kem C Gardner Policy Institute The University of Utah 9 Nicholas...President Advocacy Insights Association 37 Prepared statement of Mallory Bateman Coordinator State Data Center Senior Research Analyst The Kem C Gardner Policy Institute The Univer sity of Utah 44 Prepared...

Economic Committee U S Congress The Economic Impacts of the 2020 Census and Business Uses of Federal Data Statement of Andrew Reamer PhD Research Professor George Washington Institute of Public Policy George...invitation to speak today about the economic impacts of the 2020 Census and the business uses of federal data My observations are based on my study of the uses of federal statistics as well as on 20 years experience...experience running a regional economic development consulting practice The widespread use of data derived from the decennial census by businesses and nonprofit organizations workers and students and federal...

www cdc gov injury wisqars Figures represent an average of the five years of most recently available data 2013 to 2017 2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting...be unstable and potentially unreliable To increase reliability of the data a five year average of the most recently available data 2013 to 2017 was used 3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web...www cdc gov injury wisqars Figures represent an average of the five years of most recently available data 2013 to 2017 4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting...

help people better understand those costs I have asked my staff to produce a report that compiles data on the economic cost of gun violence in all 50 States And the report finds that rural States have...suicides Next slide So just as an example in terms of the success rate for commit ting suicides I have data here from a number of different types of things shotguns to the head cyanide gunshot to the head explo...we often have absolutely the wrong discussion And let me walk through some of the mechanics We have data sets that show if I take the last 30 years which is probably the appropriate sample size why have...

to help people better understand those costs I ve asked my staff to produce a report that compiles data on the economic costs of gun violence in all 50 states The report finds that Rural states have the...

February 2018 13 There are major problems with that analysis One problem is that these incident and death data lump together attacks using both assault weapons and other types of guns The Assault Weapon Ban would...Jones data set on Mass Public Shootings to show the small insignificant changes in shootings using assault weapons The Crime Prevention Research Center has a count of mass shootings and that data indicates...tried banning guns In order to make useful comparisons we limit ourselves to countries that have crime data both before and after the bans were implemented My previous work has dealt extensively with the dramatic...

assumptions are in many cases well justified and defended But they necessarily rely on incomplete data and convenient simplifications As a result alternative assumptions can be equally and in some cases...with significant quantitative implications It is also important to recall that what we observe in tax data is influenced by reporting responses to changing tax rules over time 3 While the academic literature...consensus method as time passes and 1 Economic Measurement and the Distributional Accounts Zwick new data become available My recommendations for a path forward are predicated on this belief These recommendations...

information would have four important effects First it will connect the idea of aggregate economic data to the real life circumstances of families in the economy When members of the working class see politicians...representatives accountable to delivering an economy that works for all It is critical to start capturing this data so we can ensure strong stable and broad based economic growth There is a large and growing body of...which means lower productivity lower innovation and higher prices and inflation This shows up in the data Jaravel found that between 2004 and 2013 families with incomes greater than 100 000 per year saw yearly...

And for inviting an excellent panel of witnesses who can help us navigate the issue The subject of data measurement techniques is at once narrow enough to keep our discussion focused and hopefully technical...before But it has been a long slog out of the Great Recession much longer for some than others If the data really can afford us a clearer view of how the costs and benefits of economic growth are being experienced...