The White House and Office of Management and Budget issued proposed rule changes to the 2030 Census that is extraordinary and unprecedented, requiring comment and feedback. Those can be made until October 13 in the Federal Register. These comments can be made by individuals and organizations. For reference, here is a short summary about these changes

NPRM Title: Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Regulations for Demographic Questions (15 CFR 60 and 15 CFR 70).

Each quarter, CSDE offers workshops on data sources, statistical and biomarker methodology, introductions to statistical programming languages, and more, all given by CSDE staff and faculty affiliates. These workshops can include hands-on training in novel methods and programming, lectures on innovative data sources, and discussions of important issues in research and data collection. Over the coming academic year, CSDE will offer a diverse and exciting set of workshops in a remote format. Students, faculty, staff,

Please join CSDE on Friday (10/2) at 12:30pm (Location: Between Raitt Hall and Savery Hall) to celebrate the start of the 2026-2027 Academic Year! Catch up with your colleagues, meet new affiliates, staff members, fellows, and trainees, and find out what is new and upcoming at CSDE. You’ll have a chance to pick up your own Autumn Quarter 2026 Seminar Series Poster and enjoy food and refreshments. We want to send a huge shout-out to our new CSDE Seminar Series Chair,

CSDE has now launched a website for your reports and policy recommendations stemming from your population research. We welcome your reports and they will involve minimal editorial feedback from us. We will ask you for an abstract, an image that illustrates the findings of your report, and we will provide you with a template for publishing your report via Canva. For more information, contact our publications editor (John Downes via his email csde@uw.edu).

CSDE Graduate Trainee Mark Nepf (Evans School of Public Policy and Governance), Jessica Godwin, and co-authors recently published a research article in Case Studies in the Environment examining park access across King County using a walking-based approach. Cluster analysis revealed distinct spatial patterns, with high-access clusters concentrated in Seattle’s urban core and low-access clusters primarily in eastern and southern King County, pointing to regions where targeted infrastructure investment could have the greatest impact.