We welcome your submissions for the PAA 2026 Annual Meeting and look forward to a full and rigorous scientific conference in St. Louis next spring! The Call for Papers is now available and the submission system will open August 18. Deadline for submissions is October 5.

Sessions will be in-person at the America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri, May 6 – 9, 2026.

Please note a few important items:

• All accepted presenters will be required to register for the conference by February 4, 2026.
• Individuals can only serve as a presenting author twice on the program (but can have additional roles such as chair or discussant).
• Organizers will not review papers from authors with whom they have a conflict of interest (close collaborators or current students/postdocs). As such, please do not submit your abstract to someone with whom you may have a conflict of interest.

Unfortunately, PAA cannot accommodate schedule requests; if your paper or poster is accepted, it could be scheduled any time during the annual meeting dates (May 7, 8, or 9).

View the Call for Papers here.

In spring 2025, CSDE celebrated its 75th anniversary a couple of years after the actual event..  The program and event can be found here and photos from the event can be found here.  If you attended and want to share photos, please send them to Maddie Farris (email: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu).  Along with a great program of presentations, we also gathered wonderful historical perspectives about CSDE that can be found here. During the event, CSDE inaugurated a new fund for graduate student research, generously established by Charles and Josephine Hirschman. The inaugural awardees were Todd Nobles (Sociology) for his research in the national archives about German internment in the U.S. during the world wars and Aryaa Rajouria (Sociology) for her research in Nepal on the dynamic relationship between migration and environmental conditions. Both awardees reflect the breadth of Charlie Hirschman’s research legacy.  We are looking forward to next year and we welcome your support in all forms of sharing.  In these times especially, CSDE welcomes donations to our standing gift funds. 

Recently, CSDE Scientist Sofia Ayala, along with CSDE Affiliates Sara Curranand Abie Flaxman engaged with the Association of Public Data Users.  Further, Flaxman attended their unConference and Data Integrity Summit, where he heard repeated calls for ways to make it easier for all of us to be champions for public data. So, at APDU members’ request, APDU created a comprehensive, up-to-date slide deck that anyone can use to brief their colleagues on the latest developments in the federal statistical system. We think you'll want to know the lates and thought we would share it with you. 

CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology) was recently featured in a South Seattle Emerald story titled, “As Air Pollution Rises, Local Programs Help South Seattle Families Breathe Easier.” South Seattle is subject to worse air pollution than other areas of Seattle due to redlining and nearby polluting industries, however, it is also one of the more affordable places to live in the city. Dr. Hajat is featured in this story confirming that airport traffic, highway air pollution, and industries contribute to higher rates of air pollution in the area. This article describes how local programs such as the Duwamish Air Improvement for Youth (DAISY), run jointly by Dr. Hajat and Paulina Lopez at the Duwamish River Community Coalition (DRCC) are helping those who have asthma and are affected by the air pollution.  To read the full article, visit this link.

CSDE Affiliate Leigh Anderson and the EPAR group at the Evans School have published a new brief titled, “CRIFS Technical Brief: Who is a small-scale producer? A proposed operational definition – EPAR,” that proposes a new operational definition of small-scale producers in the context of low and middle income countries. To read the full brief, visit this link.

CSDE External Affiliate Vedavati Patwardhan (Center on Gender Equity and Health, UC San Diego) recently published a research article in The Economic and Labour Relations Review titled, “Work-related decision-making and economic well-being among married women in India.” In this article, Dr. Patwardhan and co-authors use original survey data from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra to examine how married women’s agency over the decision to work influences economic inclusion. In all three states, women who make the decision to work independently are significantly more likely to engage in paid work than those whose spouses control this decision. In Maharashtra, sole work-related decision-making is also linked to higher savings and remittances sent by married women. In all three states, women who make work-related decisions jointly with their spouses have greater control over money. This study highlights work-related agency as a crucial dimension of women’s economic opportunities, adding to the growing evidence on the importance of women’s household bargaining power in shaping their economic participation. To read more about Dr. Patwardhan and her co-authors’ findings and results, visit this link.

Feminist Demography has a special session on the upcoming program for the PAA titled: Heterodox, Feminist, and Critical Perspectives on Demography.”  The session #917 can be found in the Call for Papers.  This brand new session provides an opportunity for critical scholars of and in population studies to contribute their knowledge at our field’s flagship annual meeting.  To learn a bit more about what feminist demography is and how you can contribute to this emerging subfield, please visit their website at  feministdemography.org

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 R&E Initiative NOFO is open!

On behalf of the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), we are reaching out with information you and your organization may be interested in regarding OVW’s Research and Evaluation (R&E) Initiative.

OVW’s R&E Initiative is designed to study approaches to addressing and preventing domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. By studying the efficacy of strategies for serving victims and holding offenders accountable, the R&E Initiative helps communities assess their current programs and adopt proven strategies. The initiative is designed to support researcher-practitioner partnerships and a broad range of research and evaluation methods, including qualitative, mixed-method, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs.

Important Dates and Information

• Letter of Intent: September 1, 2025, by 11:59 PM Eastern Time (ET) to OVW.Research@usdoj.gov.
• Application deadline for Grants.gov: September 23, 2025 – 11:59 p.m. ET
• Application deadline for JustGrants: September 25, 2025 – 8:59 p.m. ET

CSDE affiliates you are invited to join the Evidence Matters webinar on August 28 at noon.  Hosted by King County, J-PAL North America, and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunity at Notre Dame, the webinar will focus on homelessness prevention.   From Evidence to Action: Translating Homelessness Prevention Across Communities will demonstrate how targeted, rapid, flexible financial assistance prevents homelessness—and saves communities money. With rising housing insecurity and strained budgets, it’s critical to act on what works.

Thurs, Aug 28, 2025

• 3:00-4:15 PM ET / 12:00-1:15 PM PT
  Part of the Evidence Matters series hosted by King County, LEO, and J-PAL North America.
• Register here!

Description: Item response theory (IRT) is a powerful framework for analyzing questionnaire and test data. This introductory workshop will guide participants through the key concepts of IRT and results interpretation. Ideal for researchers and students who work with questionnaires and surveys. No prior IRT experience required.

• Instructor: He Ren, CSSCR Consultant
• Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
• Time: 1:00pm – 2:50pm
• Location: Savery 117 (Big Lab)
• Register here.

2025 Immigrant Integration Convening

September 14, 2025 01:00 PM (ET) – September 16, 2025 01:00 PM (ET)

Supporting Migrants and Refugees: Finding Hope in a Time of Peril

The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) and Fordham University will host the 2025 Immigrant Integration Convening, Supporting Migrants and Refugees: Finding Hope in a Time of Peril. The 3 day convening will focus on the immigration challenges of today and how the Catholic community can support migrants and refugees to advance human dignity and the common good.

Register for tickets here

September 17; 10:00-11:30am CT

Join us for virtual office hours to discuss your questions with IPUMS data experts. In this session, we will be joined by special data guest SHADAC, a leading source of state health policy data and information. SHADAC is widely known for its State Health Compare tool, though IPUMS users may be more familiar with the health insurance unit variables they create for IPUMS USA and IPUMS CPS. Registration is required to attend virtual office hours, but you can drop in anytime between 10:00am and 11:30am CT.

The Office of Research invites applications for the next round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. Proposals are due to RRF Monday, September 29, by 5:00 PM. Departments and Colleges/Schools may have earlier deadlines, so all applicants are advised to check with their program’s administrative staff. Awards will be announced by January 15, 2026.

The purpose of the RRF is to advance new directions in faculty research and contribute in substantive ways to the health, creativity, and productivity of the research ecosystem as defined by the University’s Vision Statement: “We discover timely solutions to the world’s most complex problems and enrich the lives of people throughout our community, the state of Washington, the nation, and the world."

The RRF received a Public Records Request in June. The RRF team is responding to the request following UW guidelines. RRF Website.

CSDE and its partners at CUNY, CU Boulder, El Collegio, and University of Minnesota, invites you to participate and contribute.  Here are two new data updates:

• Code linking SHELDUS with ACS Data
• Analysis Using the Household Pulse Survey – Disaster Displacement
• Add your code to others’ code or explore more….

The CACHE team would like to hear about what you are reading… submit a post here or see posts about what others are reading.

There are many more resources on the CACHE website including links to research matchmaking, workshop recordings, employment opportunities, grant opportunities and much more.

Dewey Data is a research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including foot traffic, construction permits, healthcare, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation.

University of Washington faculty, students, and researchers are eligible for access and must register an individual account. Follow this link to learn about how to register.

Pipeline Grants Competition

Organization: Russell Sage Foundation

Award amount: $50,000

Deadline: 10/1/2025

Description: This initiative will support early-career scholars and promote diversity in the social sciences, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. Pipeline grantees are paired with mentors who offer advice on their projects and career development. The competition funds innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States. We are particularly interested in research focused on structural barriers to economic mobility and how individuals, communities and state entities understand, navigate and challenge systemic inequalities. Early-career faculty who have not previously received research grants (not counting a dissertation grant) or a visiting fellowship from RSF are eligible to apply.

The purpose of this Notice is to highlight interest in addressing the role of violence in health outcomes and integrating violence-related screening and interventions into health care settings. This Notice is to encourage intervention research focused on addressing exposure to violence – including but not limited to child maltreatment, intimate partner violence/teen dating violence, elder mistreatment, peer violence/bullying, and community violence – to improve individual-level health processes and outcomes. Read more here.

Berlin Demography Days 2025: Demography and Democracy

Save the date: 27 and 28 October 2025

The electoral successes of anti-democratic movements cannot be explained solely by the demographic or socio-economic characteristics of individual groups. More decisive are local perceptions of problems and narratives of loss in the context of demographic change. These manifest in a perceived political overload, blame and the supposed failure of ‘established’ politics.

Together with experts from academia, political foundations, and governments, we analyse these demographic trends and discuss practical solutions at the regional and local level.

We look forward to welcoming you to this event.

Register here

Understanding and addressing the misalignment of care demands between an aging

population and a shortage of healthcare workers in the US requires research-ready data to study caregiving. Join IPUMS and NDIRA the morning of Wednesday, November 12 for a GSA workshop: Population Data for Studying Formal and Informal Caregiving.

• Overview of IPUMS data that are relevant to caregiving
• Demonstrations of features to streamline data management
• Discussions about analytical considerations
• Review of non-caregiving topical coverage in these data
• Guidance on identifying informal caregivers

Please register to join us or circulate this opportunity with your networks. The early bird registration rate for GSA expires on September 3.

• GSA Workshops
• Register for GSA

Discover Global Society (Springer Nature) is currently welcoming submissions of original research to the “The Permutations of “Caring”: On the Individual, Family, and Societies” Collection, Guest Edited by Prof. JosAnn Cutajar (University of Malta, Malta).

Discover Global Society was launched by Springer Nature in 2023 and indexed in SCOPUS (CiteScore 0.4 [2024]). Discover Global Society is a fully open-access journal, which means that its contents are freely available and can be used by a world audience.

If you are interested in preparing a manuscript for consideration at Discover Global Society as part of this Collection, submissions will be welcomed at any point up until 31 December 2025, but if you are unable to submit a manuscript before this date, please let us know as we may be able to be flexible.

• IPUMS HEALTH SURVEYS
  • IPUMS NHIS has added approximately 700 variables from the 2024 NHIS sample, including variables from rotating core content such as psychological distress, health-related behaviors, and allergies and other conditions. We have also added new variables introduced in 2024 on topics including long COVID (CVDODORDIFF, CVDSMELLCHG), intake of GLP medication(s) (DIAGLP), loneliness (LONELYFREQ), and the updated metro/non-metro classification (URBRRL).
•   IPUMS CPS
  • IPUMS CPS has modified the linking keys CPSID, CPSIDP, and CPSIDV to facilitate linking ASEC oversample records across ASEC samples for 1989-forward; read our technical paper to learn more. We have also released an improved version of the harmonized occupation variable OCC2010, added the July 2025 basic monthly data, and extended variable availability for recently released supplements, specifically the Fertility (June 2024), Tobacco Use (January/May 2023), Veteran (August 2024), and Voter (November 2024) supplements.
•  IPUMS USA
  • IPUMS USA has released an updated version of the harmonized occupation variable OCC2010 alongside improved documentation.

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The U.S. Census Bureau is conducting usability testing of data.census.gov. Eligible testers should be current users of the platform or have experience using and analyzing data. Learn more about Census Bureau usability testing or complete this form if you are interested in participating.

Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), funds research that expands the evidence needed to build a Culture of Health. A Culture of Health is broadly defined as one in which good health and well-being flourish across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; public and private decision-making is guided by the goal of fostering equitable communities; and everyone has the opportunity to make choices that lead to healthy lifestyles. RWJF’s Culture of Health Action Framework, which was developed to catalyze a national movement toward improved health, well-being, and equity, guides E4A’s program strategy.

The Population Association of America (PAA) has updated the form used to collect details, on an ongoing basis, from members who have been adversely affected by actions taken by the Administration, including federal grant terminations and data restrictions. The revised form provides guidance and encourages individuals to share their stories, which will be featured in a regular newsletter designed to educate policymakers and the public about the consequences of these federal actions.

Please feel free to share this form with your colleagues.

The challenges of data access during federal administrative transitions can happen every four years. What follows are some resources that might be useful. We will continue to update this blog post with new information. If you have any links that could be helpful, please send csde@uw.edu your updated and helpful information. We know that what follows may not provide you with the exact data you need, so let us know what you need and what’s missing and we can try to find where it is located.

The research community is facing a period of rapid change and uncertainty in the federal funding landscape. The university is closely monitoring changes and their potential impacts to the UW research enterprise. Information on the Office of Research’s Guidance on Federal Administration Research Policy page is updated frequently. If you are a researcher and interested in receiving updates, please subscribe to PI Federal communications (you’ll need UWNETID). The Provost’s office is also maintaining a site for all Federal Policy Updates.

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers, and through them can offer you or your colleagues the opportunity to have new or forthcoming research that you want to share with policymakers, journalists, educators, or other non-academic audiences. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), in collaboration with APC, is working to improve the dissemination of population and reproductive health findings. If you have peer-reviewed research on population dynamics, population health, or reproductive health that you would like to share with a broader audience in an easily digestible format, APC and PRB may be able to help.  To learn how, visit their website and take a look at recent research policy briefs.

CSDE is a member of the Association of Population Centers and through them can offer you and your colleagues access to their preprint publishing platform. Research Scientists, Postdoctoral affiliates and faculty are invited to submit to the APCA Working Paper Series which gathers and disseminates original population science research papers. These working papers are authored or coauthored by scholars who are faculty or postdoctoral affiliates of the Association of Population Centers (APC) population centers.

The Bradley Foundation is a private grantmaking foundation that honors the principles and example of its namesakes, Lynde and Harry Bradley, by pursuing a mission to restore, strengthen, and protect the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. The foundation has a rolling proposal process around grants for its Constitutional Order and Informed Citizens initiatives. Projects should have budgets between $25,000 and $200,000.

We invite early career faculty affiliates to join our new mailing list, csde_earlycareer. Among other things, this is the way to find out info about our quarterly Early Career Affiliate happy hours, and you won’t want to miss those! These will be a great way to meet up with other junior scholars in a fun and casual atmosphere over snacks and drinks. Who counts as early career, you ask? Typically we mean folks who are pre-promotion (i.e. assistant professor or equivalent), but we're not strict! Join the list here (Please note - this is for faculty only - we are strict about that. Sorry, all others!)