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26th Annual Nebraska Data Users Conference

The Center for Public Affairs Research at UNO puts on a Data Conference every year where they release some of the latest census data as well as information on what tools are coming out and recent trends.

This year’s 26th Annual Nebraska Data Users Conference takes place Wednesday, August 19th at UNO.  David Drozd, Research Coordinator for CPAR, says the conference is geared toward anyone who uses data, especially demographics, in the work they do conference. 

Drozd says the conference will cover topics such as state and local population trends as well as ways to use, analyze and display data.

"This year we have a focus on what’s called the economic census because that’s done every five years and they are rolling out the data they collected a year or two ago and it has a wide variety of uses.  We have several sessions on both an overview of that product as well as how to go online, find and utilize the information yourself.”

Drozd says poverty as well as some of its impacts, issues and challenges will also be discussed. 

He says there’s a new supplemental poverty measure that looks at how poverty within the states is affected by regional cost of living differences.  

The Data Conference takes place at UNO Wednesday, August 19th from 8-4:30. For more information or to see the full agenda, the website is cpar.unomaha.edu/conference.