The PRI Library has received announcement of assistant professor positions at James Madison University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

National Vital Statistiscs Reports, Volume 57 Number 4, August 27, 2008. U.S. Decennial Life Tables for 199-2001: Methodology of the United States Life Tables.

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health, Number 2, 2008. Financial Literacy, Planning, and Retirement Saving.

Population Bulletin, Volume 63 Issue 3, September 2008. World Population Highlights: Key Findings from PRB’s 2008 World Population Data Sheet

The Stata News, Volume 23 Number 3, July/August/September 2008.

Fox, John
Mathematical Primer for social statistics, A
H61.25.F69 2009
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Kaplan, David
Structural equation modeling: Foundations and extensions
H61.25.K365 2009
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Mason, Mary Ann. Ekman, Eve Mason
Mothers on the fast track: How a new generation can
balance family and careers
HQ759.48.M347 2007
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Nastional Center for Health Statistics
Design and operation of the National Asthma
RA409.U44 no. 46
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

National Center for Health Statistics
Adoption experiences of women and men, and
demand for children to adopt by women ages 18-44 in the United States, 2002: Data from Cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family
HG536.U54 no. 27
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Passel, Jeffrey
U.S. population projections: 2005-2050
Online

Preacher, Kristopher J. Wichman, Aaron L. MacCallum, Robert C. Briggs, Nancy E.
Latent growth curve modeling
QA278.6.L32 2008
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

UNICEF
State of the world’s children 2008: Child survival
Online

United Nations
Principles and recommendations for population and
housing censuses Rev. 2
Online

United Nations
World mortality report, 2007
CD-ROM
707 Oswald (Library) – Computer Workstation

United Nations. Dept. of International Economic and Social Affairs
World urbanization prospects: the 2007 revision
Online

United Nations. Dept. of International Economic and Social Affairs.
World population policies 2007
HB871.W763 2007
707 Oswald (Library)

A new report from the Pew Hispanic Center says that the inflow of illegal immigration to the US has slowed, dropping below the rate of legal immigration. While the report does not try to identify reasons for the decline, some researchers, including William Frey of the Brookings Institution, point to the country’s economic downturn (Associated Press).

Citation: Passel, J. & Cohn, D. (2008). Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center.

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

Building Healthy Communities for Active Aging: Training and Demonstration Projects – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Coverage Ideas From the Field – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Drug Abuse Epidemiology and Services Research in Cooperation with the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium (R01) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Exploratory and Developmental Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R21) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Leadership in Aging Fellowship – Brookdale Foundation

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming (Junior Investigators Program) – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT) (R03) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Utilizing Health Information Technology (IT) to Improve Health Care Quality (R18) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced that it is modifying its new investigator policy to identify early stage investigators (within 10 years of receiving a terminal degree or completing medical residency).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a reminder about the Public Access Policy, how investigators should demonstrate compliance, and how the NIH will monitor compliance.

Penn State University Libraries is offering training on the Public Access mandate this Thurs., Oct. 9.

The Population Research Institute also offers a guide to the policy for researchers.

The PRI LIbrary has received announcement of the NDACAN 2009 Summer Research Institute to be held June 8-12 at Cornell University.

The PRI Library has received announcement of the NCES Winter Forum and 22nd Annual Management Information Systems (MIS) Conference to be held in Seattle, Washington from February 16 -20, 2009.