The National Center for Education Statistics has released the Condition of Education 2007, the annual statistical portrait of education in the United States. The 2007 report summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 48 indicators on the status and condition of education and a special analysis on high school coursetaking. Click here to view and download the file in pdf format.

Preliminary datasets are now available for the Cote d’Ivoire AIS 2005 Demographic and Health Survey. Please contact the Data Archivist if you are interested in obtaining the data.

A group of researchers at RAND have created a group of data sets call the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities Data Core. The CPHHD Data Core houses a large number of measures derived for a variety of substantive areas in several distinct data series including: Cost-of-Living, Disability, Pollution, Population and Housing Characteristics, Segregation Indices, and Street Connectivity. The number and comprehensiveness of the measures derived within each series vary according to the expansiveness of the substantive area. Click here for more information.

The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.

Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program (ASDRP) Idea Development Award - U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program (ASDRP) Concept Award - U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Child Care Policy Research Grants - Administration for Children and Families

This week we launched an improved version of the PRI Grants and Funding Opportunities database. New features include:

• Improved search, with the ability to search for student and faculty research grants, as well as postdoctoral opportunities and infrastructure, conference, and training grants
• Browse by government agency or private sponsor
• Browse opportunities for students, postdoctoral scholars, infrastructure, conferences, and training
• Browse new announcements and funding-related news

The database is updated weekly by PRI Information Core staff and includes funding opportunity announcements targeting researchers in population science and related fields.

New announcements are e-mailed to PRI faculty and students weekly. Other interested researchers may receive new announcements by subscribing to our Funding News feed (see help for using feeds).

Questions, comments, and suggestions can be sent to Tara Murray.

Doctors and patients are increasingly focusing on health problems faced by cancer survivors, according to a New York Times article.

The Nigerian government has approved a policy intended to address HIV/AIDS issues in the workplace (kaisernetwork.org Daily HIV/AIDS Report).

Analyzing Changes in Health Financing Arrangements in High-Income Countries (PDF), a discussion paper from the World Bank, analyzes health financing in high-income countries in order to provide lessons for low- and middle-income countries.

Tara Murray will be out of the office June 4-12 and June 15-19. PRI associates and affiliates should make requests for literature and funding searches needed before June 20 as soon as possible, and should send all requests to library@pop.psu.edu for the best service.

The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured has released several new resources dealing with child and family health coverage, including focus group results and national and state estimates of coverage by race/ethnicity and poverty level.