MEPS has announced an Errata for all data housed at PRI.

The variable FOODCT04 should not be used because it is based on an invalid question in the survey instrument. This question asks “About how much did the family pay each month for food stamps?” when in fact, as of 1979, the food stamp program no longer maintained a purchase requirement. All responses are considered invalid.

Cancer patients without health insurance are more likely to die, according to a new study forthcoming in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (AP).

NPR’s “Your Health” this morning focused on emerging adulthood. Read a transcript of the segment or listen at npr.org.

The story highlights the work of Larry Nelson at Brigham Young University, who surveyed college students and their parents and found that most of the parents did not consider their 18- to 26-year-old children adults.  His work is forthcoming in the Journal of Family Psychology.

HRS has released the following products:

Income and Wealth Imputations for HRS 2006 Core - Early Release

2001 Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS) - Final v2.0

HRS 2006 Post-Exit - Final v1.0

Biomarker 2006 Data - Early Release

PRI researchers may request the above data from the Data Archivist.

Tomorrow the Population Reference Bureau will host an online discussion: “Beyond 300 Million: Regional and State Population Trends in the United States”. The discussion, led by Mark Mather, deputy director of Domestic Programs at PRB, will be Wed., Dec. 19, 2007, from 11 a.m. to noon (EST).

To submit questions before or during the discussion, or to see a full transcript after the discussion, go to http://discuss.prb.org. You may submit questions in advance and during the discussion. A full transcript of the questions and answers will be posted after the discussion.

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund makes policy recommendations for reducing health care costs (Bending the Curve: Options for Achieving Savings and Improving Value in U.S. Health Spending).

The National Center for Education Statistics has released a new report titled “Projections of Education Statistics to 2016″. This publication provides projections for key education statistics. It includes statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment, earned degrees conferred, and current-fund expenditures of degree-granting institutions.

To view and print the report as a PDF file, please click here.

New & Noteworthy in Nutrition, a newsletter that got its start as a World Bank staff publication, has been revived and is now published by the Population Reference Bureau. The first PRB issue is available for download.

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

Fichter Research Grant Competition 2008 - Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR)

Institutional Grants - Tinker Foundation, Inc.

Institutional Program Unifying Population and Laboratory Based Sciences - Burroughs Wellcome Fund

NIDA Research “Center of Excellence” Grant Program (P50) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Outcomes, Cost-Effectiveness and the Decision Making Process to Use Complementary and Alternative Medicine (R01) - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) - Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)

Post Doctoral Study Grants - Fyssen Foundation

Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities - National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Research on Terrorism - National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Social Inequality Request for Proposals: The Politics of Inequality - Russell Sage Foundation

Visiting Research Fellowship - American Institute for Economic Research

American Journal of Sociology, volume 113 number 3, November 2007

American Journal of Public Health, volume 97 number 12, December 2007

Cityscape, volume 9 number 3, 2007: Planning for catastrophe

Family Relations, volume 56 number 5, December 2007

Genus, volume 63, January-June 2007

The Journal of Human Resources, volume 42 number 4, fall 2007

Journal of Marriage and Family, volume 69 number 5, December 2007

Office for Research Protection, Issue 17, November – December 2007

Population Studies, volume 61 number 3, November 2007

Research on Aging, volume 30 number 1, January 2008

Research Works, volume 4 number 10, November 2007: HUD’s M2M goes green to preserve affordable housing

Reproductive Health Matters, volume 15 number 30, November 2007: Maternal mortality and morbidity: is pregnancy getting safer for women?

Stata News, volume 22 number 4, October/November/December 2007