Trainings & Events

CTData is excited to invite you to their 2022 virtual mini-Conference! This year data experts have a smorgasbord of topics including a session on Why Am I Always Being Researched by Chicago Beyond, Census Bureau tool demos, important discussions on changes to census data, CTData news, and more.

The conference sessions will run from 10:30am-12:00pm each day, November 14-17. The sessions are as follows:

Monday, November 14th: Differential Privacy

Presenters:Amy O’Hara, Elizabeth Garner, Colorado State Demographer

About this event: Since 1990 the Bureau has always added ‘noise’ to the decennial statistics, but for 2020 Census data the Bureau will be using a new privacy protection framework based on ‘differential privacy.’ At this session, two national researchers with extensive experience using Census data will discuss how this will impact the useability of the data and offer suggestions on ways in which data users can determine useability of Census data.

Tuesday, November 15th: Why am I always Being Research?

Presenter: Chicago Beyond

About this event: Through the course of their work, Chicago Beyond identified “evidence that the power dynamic between community organizations, researchers, and funders blocks information that could drive better decision-making and fuel more investment in communities most in need.” Join this session as we discuss the guidebook, Why am I Always Being Researched, so we can all uncover how we can approach our data work more equitably.

Wednesday, November 16th: Population Estimates and Updates & Coffee with CTData

Presenter: Pamela Sarte, Statistician/Demographer, U.S. Census Bureau

About this event: The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program (PEP) produces estimates of the population for the United States, its states, counties, cities, and towns, as well as for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its municipios. Demographic components of population change (births, deaths, and migration) are produced at the national, state, and county levels of geography. These estimates are used in federal funding allocations, as survey controls, as denominators for vital rates and per capita time series, and as indicators of recent demographic changes.

Thursday, November 17th: Census Bureau Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Demo

Presenter: Earlene Dowell, Program Analyst, Longitudinal-Employer Household Dynamic Program, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau

About this event: The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program is part of the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau. The LEHD program produces…information combining federal, state and Census Bureau data on employers and employees under the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership. State and local authorities increasingly need detailed local information about their economies to make informed decisions. The LED Partnership works to fill critical data gaps and provide indicators needed by state and local authorities….The LEHD program combines Unemployment Insurance earnings data and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), additional administrative data and data from censuses and surveys. From these data, the program creates statistics on employment, earnings, and job flows at detailed levels of geography and industry and for different demographic groups. In addition, the LEHD program uses these data to create partially synthetic data on workers' residential patterns. The LEHD data has been used to look at “how the pandemic exacerbated Greater Minnesota's workforce challenges,” “how have women’s opportunities in the workplace in North Carolina been affected by the Covid Pandemic,” “what may be driving growth in the ‘gig economy,” and more.

Read more about each of these sessions at our conference hub. When you register, you can choose to register for one or all of these sessions.