Duke University’s Social Networks & Health Workshop is now making it possible for remote attendance through a livestream option. The workshop will be featuring a number of cutting edge researchers, including jimi adams, James Moody, Craig Rawlings, Brea Perry, Ashton Verdure, Peter Mucha, Kieran Lele, Gabriel Varela, Dana Pasquale, Scott Duxbury, David Schaefer, Carter Butts, Sam Jenners (CSDE External Affiliate and CSDE Alum!), Alex Volfovsky, Thomas Wolff, Peter Cho and Jessilyn Dunn. The topics covered include ABM, EpiModel, Statistics on Networks, Latent Spaces and Causal Effects, Network Interventions, CHAMP, Implications of missing data, etc. This will be a rich set of resources.
The Annual Social Networks & Health workshop is live next week! Looking forward to seeing many of you there.
The schedule is attached; unfortunately registration has closed for the in-person event. BUT! We are pleased to announce that we are able to live-stream the workshop this year for those who would like to “attend” remotely.
The links for the live-stream are below:
Day 1: https://youtube.com/live/sfE7bv_lPhY?feature=share
Day 2: https://youtube.com/live/eXbC-TDMft0?feature=share
Day 3: https://youtube.com/live/-GrZec2O7Ho?feature=share
Day 4: https://youtube.com/live/G8yCzLKBSjQ?feature=share
Day 5: https://youtube.com/live/tavUs5ci1cU?feature=share
Chat/Q&A for remote participation will be limited – but we’ll do our best.
For anyone local (participating in the workshop or not), please join us Tuesday evening for a NC BBQ on the deck of Gross Hall. 6:30 – 8:30.
On June 12, 2023 @5am, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) is hosting a webinar to discuss a recent report of the IUSSP-CODATA Working Group on FAIR Vocabularies in Population Research. The working group is proposing to build a new system for finding, integrating, and harmonizing data in the field of population research. The first step is to create a dictionary for creating metadata categories for datasets. George Alter (University of Michigan), Abdullah Gozalov (United Nations Statistics Division), and Steven McEachern (Australian Data Archive, Australia National University).
IUSSP and CODATA co-sponsored a working group to study how population research can benefit from the rapidly developing standards and technologies associated with the FAIR principles that all data should be “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable” by both humans and machines (Wilkinson et al., 2016).
Demography is an empirically focused field with a long tradition of widely shared, easily accessible, data collections. FAIR vocabularies, which allow machines to associate data with concepts, can save researchers hours of tedious work by automating processes of data discovery and harmonization. The report introduces readers to international standards for documenting data (metadata) that underlie international infrastructures for producing and disseminating demographic data, and it recommends enhancing these services through application of the FAIR principles. The report builds on the “Ten Simple Rules for making a vocabulary FAIR” (Cox et al., 2021), prepared by a group formed at a workshop convened by CODATA and DDI to describe how a FAIR vocabulary will work with international standards for documenting and sharing social science data.
The working group calls for IUSSP to create a FAIR Vocabulary of Demography. Online vocabularies including demographic terms already exist, and most of them define key terms in ways incompatible with demography. Population research will be at a disadvantage without an authoritative FAIR vocabulary of its own. Fortunately, a new FAIR Vocabulary of Demography can build upon IUSSP’s long history of support for dictionaries of demography in multiple languages.
Speakers:
- George Alter, University of Michigan
- Abdulla Gozalov, United Nations Statistics Division
- Steven McEachern, Australian Data Archive, Autralian National University
On May 17 from 3-4pm Brad Foster, a Senior Sociologist in the Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies, earned his Ph.D. from the UW Sociology department and is an alumnus of the CSDE training and fellowship program will join CDWG to discuss measuring migration with linked Census Bureau and administrative records. Brad will provide an overview of ongoing efforts at the Census Bureau to leverage administrative records — in combination with decennial and survey data — to improve measures of migration, track short- and long-term migration trends, gauge the accuracy of survey migration responses, and understand how migration and residential mobility may contribute to declining survey response rates.
On May 17 from 3-4pm Brad Foster, a Senior Sociologist in the Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies, earned his Ph.D. from the UW Sociology department and is an alumnus of the CSDE training and fellowship program will join CDWG to discuss measuring migration with linked Census Bureau and administrative records. Brad will provide an overview of ongoing efforts at the Census Bureau to leverage administrative records — in combination with decennial and survey data — to improve measures of migration, track short- and long-term migration trends, gauge the accuracy of survey migration responses, and understand how migration and residential mobility may contribute to declining survey response rates.
Graduate Research Assistant
Quarters: Summer and Fall 2023 (Summer employment may be hourly or half-time [50% FTE] full-term)
Unit: Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Application Deadline: May 26, 2023, or until the position is filled
Project PI: Jeanie Santaularia (njsanta@uw.edu)
We seek a graduate research assistant to join our research team to examine the impact of the Dobbs decision on family violence in US Google search data using a natural experiment that takes advantage of both the timing of the national-level Dobbs decision and the variation in abortion restrictions by states following the decision.
The largest responsibility of the RA will involve performing a literature review and assisting in writing papers, however, analysis of data in R may also be required. A more detailed list of responsibilities includes:
General Research Assistant duties:
- Attending project team meetings
- Managing and responding to project-related email
- Supporting development of community partnerships
- Working with project partners to obtain the research data
- Checking and cleaning the data
- Safeguarding the confidentiality of the data
- Creating descriptive summaries of the data, numerically and graphically
- Conducting statistical analyses of the data using R
- Conducting literature reviews for the project
- Contributing to the writing of one or more journal manuscripts related to the project
- Other duties related to the project as determined by the research team
Requirements:
- Experience with R, especially for data management, descriptive statistics and basic inferential statistics
- Interest in reproductive health and rights
- Ability to work and thrive in a collaborative team environment
- Familiarity with Excel and Word
- Strong communication and writing skills
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as collaboratively
Preferred
- Prior knowledge and/or experience in reproductive health and rights and violence
- Familiarity with Git and Github
- Familiarity with more advanced statistical methods (DID, bias analysis, interrupted-time-series)
- Familiarity with Python
Check out the latest release from the Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 85, Issue 3! You can find the new articles contained in the volume here!
In honor of their 30 years of service for the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at University of Washington, CSDE Affiliate Marieka Klawitter is going to be celebrated on May 23rd, from 3:30-5:00 PM in Parrington Hall! This is not a celebration you want to miss and we invite you to register for the event here!
Check out the newest issue from the Journal of Demographic Economics Volume 89, issue 2. This journal is sure to have plenty of research you’ll be interested in! To view this new edition, please click here!
The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) is accepting abstracts from current graduate students, as well as from scholars, practitioners, artists, and scientists, who have completed a graduate degree within the past three years. IGSC welcomes abstracts globally and from any discipline related to the US and Asia-Pacific region.
This year’s theme is Elucidating the Periphery: Rethinking Neglected Narratives and Novel Approaches. This student organized conference provides an opportunity to venture beyond one’s own boundaries to interface with neglected narratives from peripheral perspectives as well as novel techniques in a transdisciplinary context.
Abstract submissions
All abstract submissions must be made through the secure Submittable online platform. The deadline to submit abstracts is September 15th, 2023, 23:59 hrs (Hawai‘i Standard Time).
Please see the conference website for Frequently Asked Questions on abstract guidelines, conference registration, and other logistics. For any other questions not covered in Frequently Asked Questions, please send your inquiry to the IGSC team at igsc@eastwestcenter.org.
The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC) is accepting abstracts from current graduate students, as well as from scholars, practitioners, artists, and scientists, who have completed a graduate degree within the past three years. IGSC welcomes abstracts globally and from any discipline related to the US and Asia-Pacific region.
This year’s theme is Elucidating the Periphery: Rethinking Neglected Narratives and Novel Approaches. This student organized conference provides an opportunity to venture beyond one’s own boundaries to interface with neglected narratives from peripheral perspectives as well as novel techniques in a transdisciplinary context.
Abstract submissions
All abstract submissions must be made through the secure Submittable online platform. The deadline to submit abstracts is September 15th, 2023, 23:59 hrs (Hawai‘i Standard Time).
Please see the conference website for Frequently Asked Questions on abstract guidelines, conference registration, and other logistics. For any other questions not covered in Frequently Asked Questions, please send your inquiry to the IGSC team at igsc@eastwestcenter.org.