For this week’s Computational Demography Working Group (May 24 from 3-4pm), Aasli Nur, T32 CSDE Fellow and Sociology PhD student will join present her research project which uses an agent-based model, FPsim, to apply a more contextualized, women-centered approach to the study of family planning. Her research interests center on gender, fertility, and family planning, with a particular focus on women’s contraceptive autonomy. She will will introduce FPsim, an open-source tool written in Python and developed by the Institute for Disease Modeling at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  This is the first of two sessions about FPsim. The second session will be held on 5/31/23.

CSDE has awarded funds to three different affiliates working to develop their research trajectories in population science and/or population health. Khai Tram is an infectious disease fellow who studies mobility and infectious diseases, with a focus on HIV in Africa; he will be traveling to South Africa this summer to attend a training in epidemic modeling and to meet with collaborators and mentors to help develop a K award proposal.  Jeanie Santaularia, Assistant Professor in Epidemiology,  will be using her funds to hire a graduate student RA to work on an innovative project looking for increases in Google search data indicative of family violence after the rise of abortion restrictions. And Evans School Professor Heather Hill will be building on her existing funding from Washington State’s Employment Security Department to hire an RA to conduct interviews with persons using the state’s new paid family medical leave system. Congrats to all of you, and best wishes as you conduct this work and expand on it in the future.

More information about the PRPG program is at https://csde.washington.edu/research/prpg/.

A new paper from CSDE affiliates Rebecca Walter and Arthur Acolin as well as co-authors draws on crime and prevention research to illustrate the benefits of micro-scale approaches to quantitative analyses in the field of urban planning. The paper entitled “Scaling Down from the Neighborhood in Urban Planning Research and Practice: The Potential Benefits of a Micro-Scale Focus” was recently published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research. The neighborhood has been the dominant spatial unit in urban planning since the early 20th century. Criticisms of the neighborhood unit include disagreements about defining boundaries, methodological challenges in capturing neighborhood effects, and negative impacts on communities. With advancements in data management, and public data available at smaller units (street block or property), quantitative analyses are possible at the micro-scale.

CSDE Affiliate Jon Wakefield has published a new article in Epidemics entitled “Association between pertussis vaccination coverage and other sociodemographic factors and pertussis incidence using surveillance data“. The objective of this study was to characterize the association between pertussis vaccination coverage and sociodemographic factors and pertussis incidence at the school district level in King County, Washington, USA. The authors used monthly pertussis incidence data for all ages reported to the Public Health Seattle and King County between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2017 to obtain school district level pertussis incidence.

Please join us for a workshop on Dryad & NIH data management plans with instructor Phil Hurvitz on May 24th, at 10:30am! The workshop will take place online and you can find the zoom link here!
The NIH has instituted a new policy, effective January 25, 2023, requiring each submitted proposal to include a Data Management and Sharing (DMS) plan. Under the DMS policy, NIH expects that investigators and institutions: 1) plan and budget for the managing and sharing of data; 2) submit a DMS plan for review when applying for funding; 3) comply with the approved DMS plan

Under the DMS policy, NIH expects that investigators and institutions:

• Plan and budget for the managing and sharing of data
• Submit a DMS plan for review when applying for funding
• Comply with the approved DMS plan

This workshop will cover:

• An overview of what is required in the DMS plan
• How to prepare for a DMS plan
• What CSDE can do to support drafting a DMS plan
• Long-term data storage and dissemination options, including Dryad.

Presenters:

• CSDE Research Scientist and UW Data Collaborative Director Phil Hurvitz
• UW Research Data Services Librarian Jenny Muilenburg.

The Association of Population Centers in collaboration with SocArXiv has launched a new platform for publishing pre-prints, works in progress, etc.  APC ArXiv (APCA) Working Paper Series is now open for sharing your research quickly. This resource is available to faculty and students affiliated with an APC member organization, which includes CSDE. We encourage you submit your population research papers to this new platform and, if you do, please let us know, so that we can announce the publication in e-news!

 

If you’re interested in studying adolescent social and health development across the life course, along with rich social, biological, and health data, you might consider proposing research with the Add Health Study data. CSDE now hosts the restricted-use, Add Health study data modules on the UW Data Collaborative.

Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health) is a  the largest, most comprehensive longitudinal survey of adolescents ever undertaken, with a US-representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and who have been followed for five waves to date, most recently up to 2016-18. New data sets are added periodically, and the full restricted data catalog can be viewed at the CPC Data Portal.

The survey data contain demographic, social, familial, socioeconomic, behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, and health survey data. Other information includes school, neighborhood, and other contextual information, as well as biological data, such as genetic markers, blood-based assays, and anthropometrics. Add Health provides publicly accessible data containing a subset of the full sample as well as restricted-use data sets containing data on all study participants. CSDE’s contract with Add Health allows authorized researchers to use the complete restricted-use data sets on our secure servers.

The CSDE Seminar Series hosted a panel on Add Health on March 3, 2020, with presentations from Dr. Robert Hummer (Add Health director), Sydney Will (Add Health Data Dissemination & Contracts Manager), Dr. Luciana Hebert (Assistant Research Professor at WSU), and Dr. Philip Hurvitz (CSDE Research Scientist and UWDC Director). We covered a brief introduction to getting access to the Add Health on the UWDC, history and uses of the Add Health study and data, and some current research using the data sets. The seminar was recorded, and the video can be viewed at https://youtu.be/DcYlqLRx1-Q?t=89.

Add Health data have been used in thousands of publications (see https://addhealth.cpc.unc.edu/publications/) and the data housed at CSDE were used in several publications (Esposito et al., 2017; Zamora-Kapoor, Hebert, Montanez, et al., 2020; Zamora-Kapoor, Hebert, Montañez, et al., 2020).

To obtain access to the data hosted by CSDE on the UWDC, see https://dcollab.uw.edu/data/add-health/

Please join us for a workshop on Dryad & NIH data management plans with instructor Phil Hurvitz on May 24th, at 10:30am! The workshop will take place online and you can find the zoom link here!
The NIH has instituted a new policy, effective January 25, 2023, requiring each submitted proposal to include a Data Management and Sharing (DMS) plan. Under the DMS policy, NIH expects that investigators and institutions: 1) plan and budget for the managing and sharing of data; 2) submit a DMS plan for review when applying for funding; 3) comply with the approved DMS plan

Under the DMS policy, NIH expects that investigators and institutions:

• Plan and budget for the managing and sharing of data
• Submit a DMS plan for review when applying for funding
• Comply with the approved DMS plan

This workshop will cover:

• An overview of what is required in the DMS plan
• How to prepare for a DMS plan
• What CSDE can do to support drafting a DMS plan
• Long-term data storage and dissemination options, including Dryad.

Presenters:

• CSDE Research Scientist and UW Data Collaborative Director Phil Hurvitz
• UW Research Data Services Librarian Jenny Muilenburg.

Please join CSDE as we host Dr. Elizabeth Roberto, Department of Sociology at Rice University for her talk “Constructing Segregation: Examining Social and Spatial Division in Road Networks”. For this talk Dr. Roberto will be discussing how her paper develops a novel approach that identifies missing road segments that we would expect to exist in a city’s road network given the surrounding infrastructure. They find that unexpected disconnectivity in a city’s road network is associated with racial differences in nearby areas and contributes to higher levels of segregation at the local and city level. The findings emphasize the power of the built environment and suggest that road networks warrant more attention as a factor that may contribute to the persistence of segregation.