CSDE Affiliate Kam Wing Chan was recently quoted in a Times Higher Education article on college graduates and Hukou reform in China. To read the article, click here.
Group Formed to Support Census Data Product Preservation
You are invited to join Georgetown University Massive Data Institute in its effort to support the information flows and products coming from the 2020 Census. In order to facilitate communications – in a fully transparent way – they have established a LinkedIn group where they will post information about upcoming town halls where they will discuss pressing concerns, post info about data releases, and host online discussions. The goal is to advocate for the most accurate, privacy preserving data products from the decennial census program. The group intends to focus on the Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC) File, Detailed DHC, Population Estimates, and American Community Survey.
Join them to make your voice and needs heard! Please join the LinkedIn group here.
Sign up for CSDE Workshop on PAA Extended Abstracts!
CSDE will be holding a workshop on Friday, August 20th on writing extended abstracts for the Population Association of American (PAA) annual conference, which is being held in Atlanta, GA this year! This will be a remote workshop on tips and tricks for writing extended abstracts and attendees will have the opportunity to have their extended abstract reviewed by a peer and a faculty member, as well as to review one of their peers’ manuscripts. To participate, please fill out the sign up form by Tuesday, August 15th (Sign Up Form). Registration is limited to 15 participants.
PAA Extended Abstract Workshop
When: August 20th (Friday) from 10-11:30am
Where: Zoom (link sent to registrants)
Link to sign up: Sign Up Form
If you would like to receive feedback from a partner and/or faculty member, participants will send their extended abstracts to their peer review partners on September 7th and review their partner’s extended abstract by September 14th. For questions, please contact Christine Leibbrand at cleibb@uw.edu.
CMS Presents Estimates of the US Undocumented and Eligible-to-Naturalize Populations
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) has released its estimates of the US undocumented and eligible-to-naturalize populations and updated its Democratizing Data mapping tools. CMS estimates that 10.35 undocumented immigrants and 8.1 million immigrants who are eligible to naturalize reside in the United States. These estimates and detailed demographic information about these populations are available through CMS’s Democratizing Data mapping tools. Data tool users can conduct their own state and local queries of the size and characteristics of the US undocumented and eligible-to-naturalize populations at data.cmsny.org. With these tools, it is possible to obtain detailed profiles of immigrant populations at a national, state, and sub-state level.
CMS estimates are based on data from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the US Census Bureau. Because of the in-depth questions the ACS asks, CMS can derive detailed profiles of immigrant populations that provide estimates of country of origin, years of US residency, race/ethnicity, occupation, health insurance coverage, and more. Since the launch of CMS’s Democratizing Data Initiative in 2013, CMS estimates have been broadly used by scholars, researchers, government officials, and service-providers in crafting, implementing, and evaluating programs that serve noncitizens. After a review of its data-sharing policies, CMS has again made public its sub-state level data on the US undocumented population.
For sub-state level data, please visit: http://data.cmsny.org/puma.html.
For national and state level data, please visit: http://data.cmsny.org/state.html.
UW Synergistic Pilot AIDS Research Center (SPARC) Awards
Open-rank Faculty position in Demography
Research Coordinator, Global Health
Join CSDE and eScience Institute for NICHD Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge
NICHD has just launched the Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge. This challenge invites teams of scholars to work together using the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-to-be (nuMoM2b) to design innovative approaches to improving maternal outcomes. A full description of the challenge is below. There is a $50,000 prize for each of 7 teams and for others up to $10,000 – prizes will be awarded by NICHD. CSDE and the eScience Institute have teamed up to support teams comprised of UW faculty and students (along with others outside of UW) who plan on participating in the challenge.
- If you are a UW faculty/student/staff interested in being on a team, but don’t yet have a team, please register here by July 31 and we’ll try to help you find/create a team. Our form will ask you for your name, faculty/staff/student status, your department, your website, and your applicable skills and experiences for this data challenge.
- If you have a team, register your team with CSDE by August 15 and let us know who is on your team (name & institution/unit & faculty/student/staff status) and whether you are looking for other people to join your team. All teams should have at least one UW faculty member.
- Registered teams that submit draft proposals to CSDE by September 24:
- Will receive timely, expert reviews and feedback by October 1. This feedback should enhance every team’s competitiveness in the NICHD challenge.
- Will be eligible for up to $5,000 in research funds from CSDE (these awards will be available to each of three highly qualified proposals).
CSDE’s scientific staff and faculty are available for consultation and discussion at any point in the process, email Tyler McCormick (tylermc@uw.edu) or csde_consult@uw.edu with inquiries. Don’t hesitate to reach out!
Attend CSDE and DemSemx Panel Session on Academic Midlife!
CSDE is co-sponsoring panel talks on Academic Midlife with DemSemX, a coalition of population centers from across the U.S. This will be an exciting opportunity to learn about the career paths of eminent scholars after they received tenure. Within academia, there is a lot of focus and advice around getting tenure—understandably, as it represents a singular evaluation hurdle within tenure-granting institutions. Yet, academic careers can be long, and there are many decisions to be made after tenure about how to invest one’s time and energy. In the upcoming session on July 30th at 11am PT/2pm ET, Adam Gamoran (William T. Grant Foundation), Jennifer Glass (UT Austin), and Zhencaho Qian (Brown University) will discuss midlife in academia and how they have approached choices within their careers. The Zoom link for the event is here.
Irons and Raftery Publish New Findings On COVID-19 Prevalence in the United States
UW Statistics Doctoral Student Nicholas Irons and CSDE Affiliate Adrian Raftery recently published new research in PNAS estimating the ‘true prevalence’ of COVID-19 in the US. Among other contributions, they introduce a statistical framework that incorporates key COVID-19 data from multiple sources to model the true prevalence of this disease in the United States and individual states. Their approach projects that in the U.S. as many as 60% of COVID-19 cases went undetected as of March 7, 2021, the last date for which the dataset they employed is available. To read more about the research, please see the article.