It’s been a busy year and much to appreciate. CSDE graduate students continue to excel with recent graduates landing great jobs as population researchers in academia, think tanks, government agencies, companies, and the non-profit or philanthropic sector. Their research is finding its way into influential places, including informing policy, improving evidence bases for policy making, and changing how we think about population dynamics. Similar impacts are made by CSDE scholars across the UW’s three campuses – books, articles, innovative data products, and advances in methodologies are garnering important attention among scholars and the public. We document many of these outcomes in this weekly e-news (so don’t forget to share your news).
To celebrate the decades of contributions by the CSDE community, please
save the date for our anniversary celebration during our
“75 and Counting: Making Census of the World!” event on May 16, 2025! Yes, indeed, CSDE was founded more than 75 years ago! To learn more, contact
csde@uw.edu. We look forward to seeing you there!
Many best wishes to our entire community for a new year filled with important population research results!
~ Sara Curran, CSDE Director
CSDE’s seminar series closed out the autumn quarter with an excellent poster session, featuring CSDE Trainees and students Isaac Sederbaum (Doctoral Candidate, Evans School of Public Policy), Mingze Li (Doctoral Student, Sociology), Sarah Kilpatrick (MS Student, Data Science) and Man-Lin Chen (Doctoral Student, Sociology).
Isaac Sederbaum took home the prize with a poster and presentation entitled “’I Deadnamed Myself Until my Documents Matched’: Trans People and the Psychological Costs of Citizen-State Interactions in the US.” CSDE extends a special thank you to Desiree Salais, Jessica Godwin, Jill Fulmore and Maddie Farris for organizing the event and the CSDE Faculty Affiliate Feedback Panel: Audrey Dorelien, Rawan Arar, and Joan Casey. CSDE wishes everyone a happy holiday and appreciates all who helped make fall’s seminar series a success!
IPUMS USA has released the 2023 ACS and PRCS 1-year PUMS data, including updates to race variables that reflect changes first implemented in the 2020 questionnaire. This data also incorporates the 2022 industry codes in the IND and INDNAICS variables. Learn more here.
Did you know that UW Libraries has resources available to support open source publication costs in some journals? Learn more about how to take advantage of these opportunities here.
CSDE Affiliate Donald Chi was featured in a recent story from Side Effects and WFYI Public Media about the recent news surrounding incoming Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s skepticism of water fluoridation. In the article, Dr. Chi explains that oral health in the U.S. generally declined during the COVID-19 pandemic and argues that water fluoridation is still important – especially in areas where rates of tooth decay are particularly high. Read the full story here.
In 2006, an “Eight Americas” study partitioned the U.S. into eight demographic groups and identified dramatic life expectancy gaps between the groups. In a recent publication in The Lancet, CSDE Affiliates Laura Dwyer-Lindgren (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation), Ali Mokdad (Health Metrics Sciences, Epidemiology) and co-authors present an updated analysis of data from 2000 – 2021 and identify ten distinct groups during that time period. The study, entitled “Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA,” confirms the persistence of dramatic inequalities and suggests opportunities for targeted action in response. Read the full article here.
IPUMS Contextual Determinants of Health (CDOH) released a new dataset created in collaboration with the CRT Forward Tracking Project at UCLA. The CRT Forward Tracking Project provides detailed information about anti-critical race theory (CRT) measures introduced by various government entities. The dataset describes the type of conduct that is restricted or required, the regulated institutions, specifics of the targeted conduct, and enforcement mechanisms that regulate the conduct. IPUMS CDOH incorporates geographic identifiers for the government entities, allowing researchers to link data from sources like the ACS or National Center for Education Statistics’ Common Core of Data. Learn more here.