ICPSR is now accepting application for scholarships to take part in the 2023 ICPSR Summer Program. The scholarships will be fee waivers or stipends to attend one or both three-week sessions. The application deadline is February 1, 2023. For more information, including link to apply, go to:
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/sumprog/scholarships/index.html
Registration for the 2022 ICPSR Summer Program is now open. To see the full four week session schedule and to register to go the portal page. Registration for the short workshop is available here.
The University of Minnesota Integrated Public Use Microdata Samples (IPUMS) project recently announced their 14th annual IPUMS Research Awards competition. “These awards honor the best research using IPUMS data to advance or deepen our understanding of social and demographic processes. We are looking for papers that use innovative approaches, comparative analyses, and showcase the power of the IPUMS data collections.” The deadline for applications is February 18, 2022. To submit an entry, go to:
The General Social Survey has announced that they are updating their Data Explorer tool. The current Data Explorer and Key Trends tools will not be available starting January 10, 2022. The new Data Explorer tool will be available on January 24, 2022.
Today, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics released their new report – America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2021. The report “highlights 41 key national indicators across a range of domains: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.” To learn more about the report, go to:
Today, the Census Bureau released the first results from the 2020 Census. The P.L. 94-171 data files were released today. For access to the data and documentation go to: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/rdo/summary-files.html.
This podcast features stories about data and the people who use, seek, or create data, and why people should care about data. A new episode is published every other Friday. Listen to any of these episodes on Soundcloud, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.
Episode 7: Liberal Arts Education
Episode 6: Cruise Ships and Empowerment
Episode 5: Baby Brains & Sleep
Episode 4: Measuring Transgender Populations
Episode 3: Census and Migration
Episode 2: Rhythm and Movement
Episode 1: Where Dory is Anna
The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR) at the Bowling Green State University just released this family profile. Its findings are based on data from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS), 1-year estimates. It is interesting to see the median age difference between same-sex and different-sex couples after the legalization of same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. The U.S. Census Bureau has changed their data collection since then to directly query respondents about same-sex and different-sex partnerships. See other family profiles based on ACS data.
In early 1940s Hermann Henry Remmers, a Professor of Education and Psychology at Purdue University designed a poll to understand the attitudes of teenagers. It was the first time nearly all Americans teenagers attended high school. Dr. Remmers utilized sampling techniques to gather information from this subset of the population through their schools. Purdue Opinion polls began with respondents in Indiana, then expanded to five Midwestern states, and eventually covered the whole nation in 1945. Topics cover parents, education, television, civil liberties, communism, ethics, science, selective service, drugs, poverty, and the Middle East. Roper Center holds datasets from sixty Purdue Opinion Panel polls from 1949 to 1974.
This annual report by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis offers in-depth analyses of the economic impacts wrought by COVID-19. It identifies real-time economic trends and examines various policy responses during this pandemic period. It highlights the effects of the pandemic on financial and labor markets, fiscal policy, and international trade.
