CSDE Research Areas:
- Demographic Measurements and Methods
In the News:
- Swanson to Present at the Estonian Population Research Center (05/08/2025)
- Swanson and Co-Authors Highlight the Consequences of Coastal Population Growth (10/03/2024)
- Swanson to Present at 47th Fulbright Association Annual Meeting (09/26/2024)
- Swanson Publishes Research Article in Asian Population Studies on Infant Mortality in the Philippines (09/05/2024)
- Fulbright Association: The World at a Crossroads 47th Annual Conference - October 25-26, Washington D.C., November 8-9, Virtual (09/03/2024)
- Swanson Evaluates Cluster Analysis as a Means to Identify Communities of Interest for Legislative Redistricting (05/23/2024)
- Swanson, Burch, and Preston are Named Top Demographers in the World by ScholarGPS (05/10/2024)
- Swanson Provides a Geometric Expression of Taylor's Law in New Research Brief (04/19/2024)
- Swanson Co-authors Research Examining the U.S. Decline in the Non-Hispanic White Population (03/13/2024)
- Swanson Evaluates Models for Estimating Population Stability (03/07/2024)
- CSDE Affiliates Edit and Contribute to New Volume - Socio-Demographic Perspectives on COVID (10/04/2023)
- 3 CSDE Affiliates Elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) and Bostrom Re-elected to WSAS Board (07/19/2023)
- Swanson Publishes New Article on Small-Area Population Forecasting (06/05/2023)
- Swanson Publishes New Article Examining New Disclosure Avoidance System from US Census Bureau (02/10/2023)
- Swanson to be Inducted into the Mississippi Academy of Science as a Fellow for Lifetime Achievements (01/13/2023)
- Swanson and Co-Authors Receive Terrie Award for Best Paper at the Southern Demographic Conference (10/23/2022)
- Swanson Publishes Report on Underreporting of Covid-19 Cases (10/02/2022)
- CSDE Recommends: August Issue of Population Research and Policy Review Now Available! (08/05/2022)
- Demographic Methodological Developments from Swanson in Two New Publications (05/03/2022)
- Swanson Publishes New Research and Takes on New Position with Society of Actuaries (03/16/2022)
- Swanson Featured in 60th Anniversary Issue of Population Review (02/04/2022)
- Highlighting Three Recent Publications by Swanson and Co-Authors (11/05/2021)
- Swanson Opines on Striking Commonalities in Census and Broadband Coverage Across Hopi and Lummi Reservations (10/15/2021)
- Swanson Published in PAA Affairs wrt Census’ Proposed Synthetic Micro-datasets (06/08/2021)
- Partition Theorem in Populations and its Role in Determining the Stationary Status of a Population (02/15/2021)
- David Swanson Finds Higher Life Expectancy at Birth for the U.S. Population with Sickle Cell Disease (02/08/2021)
- Swanson Receives Emeritus Professor Award and Continues Applied Demography Research Agenda (06/24/2020)
- David Swanson Forecasts the COVID-19 Surge Peak in Whatcom County, WA (04/05/2020)
- David Swanson Pens Wall Street Journal Opinion on Immigration, the 2020 Census, and Federal Funding (07/17/2019)
- David Swanson Selected as Featured Author by Population Review (06/29/2019)
- David Swanson Named to UNM Population Studies Advisory Committee, Invited as Summer at Census Scholar, and Interviewed by Wallet Hub (04/29/2019)
- How Long is the Working Life Expectancy of MLB Pitchers? David Swanson Estimates (07/21/2018)
- Jo Martins, Fei Guo, and David Swanson Explore Global Population Trends (04/16/2018)
- CSDE Welcomes New Affiliates (07/18/2017)
Throughout his career, David Swanson has concentrated on applied demography while also keeping up with academic demography. He served on the U. S. Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee for six years and chaired the group for two years (2004-10, 2009-10). He also has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern Demographic Association (1995-7 and 2003-7); and the editor of Population Research and Policy Review (2004-7). Swanson has produced over 100 refereed sole- and co-authored journal articles and nine books, mainly dealing with demography, especially methods for doing small area estimation and forecasting. He also has edited or co-edited four additional books and Google Scholar shows more than 5,500 citations to his work. During the Spring and summer of 2020, Swanson wrote 20 articles on the COVID-19 Pandemic for Northwest Citizen. With Peter Morrison, he wrote “Sanctuary Cities Get a Census Bonus,” an op-ed piece that appears in the 16 July 2019 issue of the Wall Street Journal. In addition to being a Fulbright specialist in Demography, he has received two Fulbright awards and more than $2.3 million in grants and contracts. Among other professional recognitions, he: (1) served as a “summer at census” scholar in June, 2019, U.S. Census Bureau; (2) received the Terrie award in 1999 and again in 2016 for presenting the best paper in state and local demography at the annual conference of the Southern Demographic Association; and (3) received a Vice-Presidential “Hammer Award” in 1998 for work on the development of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. In addition to UC Riverside, other positions he has held include serving as a course developer and an instructor for the Penn State online MPS degree in Applied Demography. In the Fall of 2018, he was visiting professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.