NCHS announced, in February 2009, that due to budget short falls, the NHIS 2009 sample size will be cut by more than half. Read the report (PDF file) for more information.

The PRI Library has received announcement of an upcoming NCES conference to be held May 20-22, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

Family Relations; Volume 58 Issue 1, February 2009.

International Family Planning Perspectives; Volume 34 Number 4, December, 2008.

Journal of Human Resources, The ; Volume 44 Issue 1, Winter 2009.

Journal of Marriage and Family; Volume 71 Number 1, February, 2009.

National Health Statistics Reports; Number 11, January 2009. Ambulatory Surgery in the United States,  2006.

National Health Statistics Reports; Number 12, December, 10, 2008. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults and Children: United States, 2007.

National Vital Statistics Reports; Volume 57 Number 7, January 7, 2009. Births: Final Data for 2006.

National Vital Statistics Reports; Volume 57 Number 8, January 28, 2009. Fetal and Perinatal Mortality, United States, 2005.

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health; No. 4, 2008. Lessons for health care from Behavioral Economics.

NCHS Data Brief; No. 12, January 2009. Who Adopts? Characteristics of Women and Men Who Have Adopted Children.

ORP Newsletter; Issue 21, January-April 2009.

Population Briefs; Volume 14 Issue 2, December 2008.

Bread for the World Institute
Hunger 2009 global development: Charting a new course
HD9000.1.H82 2009
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Brown, Oli
Migration and climate change
Online

Brown, Oli
Migration, development and environment
Online

Brown, Oli
Climate change and migration: Improving
methodologies to estimate flows
Online

DeWind, Josh. Holdaway, Jennifer (editors)
Migration and development within and across
borders: Research and policy perspectives on internal and international migration
Online

Iverson, Cheryl
American Medical Association manual of style: A
guide for authors and editors
R119. A533 2007 REF
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Khan, Shane
Youth reproductive and sexual health
DHS General
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Kishor, Sunita. Subaiya, Lekha
Understanding women’s empowerment: A
comparative analysis of demographic and health surveys (DHS) data
DHS General
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

National Center for Health Statistics
Design and operation of the National Survey of
Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2005-2006
RA409.U44 no. 45
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

The World Bank
2008 World development indicators
Online

UNIFEM
Progress of the worlds’ women 2008/2009
Online

United Nations
Demographic yearbook 2005
HB881.U55 2005 REF
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

United Nations Population Fund
State of world population 2008, The: Reaching
common ground: Culture, gender and human rights
Online

United Nations. Statistical Office
Statistical yearbook/ [Annuaire statistique] 2007
HA12.5.U63 2006 (REF)
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Wolcott, Harry F.
Writing up qualitative research
T11.W65 2009
707 Oswald (Library) – New Books/Course Readings Shelf

Did you know that when you sign a publication agreement, you could be signing away your right to comply with the National Institutes of Health’s Public Access Policy?

Did you know that the NIH can withhold funding from investigators who fail to comply with the policy?

Find out what you need to do now to make sure you are in compliance with this policy. I am offering a small group consulting session for PRI associates and affiliates on March 4 from 11am-noon.

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

ESRC/SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowships – Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

NCMHD Health Disparities Research on Minority and Underserved Populations (R01) – National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)

Retirement Research Foundation – Retirement Research Foundation

Targeted Rural Health Research Grant Program – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Women’s Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research (R01) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Women’s Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research (R21) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

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

Active Living Research – Round 9 – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Crime and Justice Research – National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Mini-Grants – Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Policy Research Grants – Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007 (PDF, from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Reports) uses data from the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey.

Among the findings:

• A larger proportion of women than men had completed high school or more education. A larger proportion of men had received at least a bachelor’s degree.
• Differences in educational attainment by race and Hispanic origin existed. Attainment for non-Hispanic Whites and Asians was higher than attainment for Blacks and Hispanics. (Hispanics may be any race.)
• Educational attainment varied by nativity. About 88 percent of the native-born population had at least a high school diploma, compared to 68 percent of the foreign-born population. More native-born than foreign-born adults reported completing at least a bachelor’s degree (28 percent and 27 percent, respectively), while more foreign-born than nativeborn adults reported having an advanced degree (11 percent and 10 percent, respectively).
• Educational attainment of foreign-born Hispanics was lower than all other groups. The percentage of foreign-born Hispanics who had completed at least high school was 49 percent, which is the same as the percentage of foreign-born Asians who had completed college or more education.

All waves and topical modules for SIPP 2004 is now available To Penn State researchers on SodaPop.

The PRI Library has received job announcements from:

• University of Washington for a post-graduate fellowship.
• McGill University for a tenure-track assistant professor.
• Brown University for a post-doctoral research associate.