“The PRA has updated its website with information about data requests that will be sent to a number of life and general insurance firms in 2014- 2015 to support preparations for, and the transition to, Solvency II. The PRA will send the first data request directly to all firms in early May 2014. The deadline for… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2014
The Economic Importance of Women’s Rising Hours of Work
Eileen Appelbaum, Heather Boushey, and John Schmitt |April 15, 2014: “Over the past three decades, there has been a steady rise in the share of women, especially mothers, in the workforce. As indicated by the data, the majority of women and mothers work, and many work full time and full year. This dramatic increase in women’s… Continue Reading
Vital Signs: Births to Teens Aged 15–17 Years — United States, 1991–2012
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly – April 11, 2014 / 63(14);312-318: “The U.S. teen birth rate has continued to decline, from 84.1 births per 1,000 teens aged 15–19 years in 1991 to an all-time low of 29.4 in 2012 (1). Despite this trend, approximately 305,000 infants were born to teens aged 15–19 years in 2012 , and… Continue Reading
EU Report – Text and Data Mining
Standardisation in the area of innovation and technological development, notably in the field of Text and Data Mining – Report from the Expert Group, 2014. “Text and data mining (TDM) is an important technique for analysing and extracting new insights and knowledge from the exponentially increasing store of digital data (‘Big Data’). It is important to understand the… Continue Reading
Twelve states produced 80% of U.S. wind power in 2013
“In 2013, 12 states accounted for 80% of U.S. wind-generated electricity, according to preliminary generation data released in EIA’s March Electric Power Monthly report. Texas was again the top wind power state with nearly 36 million megawatthours (MWh) of electricity. Iowa was second, with more than 15 million MWh, followed by California, Oklahoma, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon,… Continue Reading
Pew – A new organization for cybersecurity across the electric grid
Meghan McGuinness: “Cyber attacks are an increasing risk for the US electric sector and have eclipsed terrorism as the primary threat, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team responded to 256 incidents that targeted critical infrastructure sectors in fiscal year 2013, and 59 percent of those incidents involved the… Continue Reading
Beta Release of Workforce Statistics Analysis Tool
“The U.S. Census Bureau is unveiling a new Web-based analysis tool that provides access to the full Quarterly Workforce Indicators dataset. The tool — named QWI Explorer — includes measures on employment, job creation and destruction, hires and wages from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program. QWI Explorer allows users to compare, rank and aggregate indicators… Continue Reading
Federal Government Spectrum Compendium
“In order to address the nation’s growing interest in and demand for the radio spectrum, NTIA, in consultation with the federal agencies, has developed a compendium of detailed narratives describing federal spectrum uses from 225 MHz to 5 GHz. The narratives at the links below provide information for each frequency band in this range in… Continue Reading
Estimating the Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault (2014)
“The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) measures the rates at which Americans are victims of crimes, including rape and sexual assault, but there is concern that rape and sexual assault are undercounted on this survey. BJS asked the National Research Council to investigate this issue and recommend best practices for… Continue Reading
Pew – The Next America
“Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion. America is in the midst of two right now. Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Each of these shifts would by itself be the defining demographic story of its era. The fact that both are unfolding simultaneously has… Continue Reading
Supervisory framework for measuring and controlling large exposures – final standard
“This Basel Committee on Banking Supervision standard sets out a supervisory framework for measuring and controlling large exposures. The framework is scheduled to take effect from 1 January 2019 and will supersede the Committee’s 1991 standard on this topic. Since publication of the original standard, the financial system has changed dramatically. While many jurisdictions modelled their national rules… Continue Reading
Exposure to Neighborhood Green Space and Mental Health
Outside: ” If you’ve been looking for a natural pick-me-up, get like Thoreau and move to the woods. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin found that people who live in communities with more green space reported feeling lower levels of depression and anxiety. Kirsten Malecki, an assistant professor of population health sciences, and her team compared mental health data… Continue Reading
