US Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the “2007 AHS National Data“.

The Census Bureau has recently released “state level maps showing percent distributions and some detailed socio-economic characteristics from Census 2000 for the foreign-born population in the United States and Puerto Rico for selected countries of birth, such as Mexico, China, the Philippines, India and El Salvador.”

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

Academic Research Infrastructure Program: Recovery and Reinvestment (ARI-R2) – National Science Foundation (NSF)

Active Living Research: Investigating Policies and Environments to Support Active Communities – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Exploring Linkages Between Health Outcomes and Environmental Hazards, Exposures, and Interventions for Public Health Tracking and Risk Management – National Center for Environmental Research (NCER)

Fulbright Specialist Program – Council for the International Exchange of Scholars – U.S. Department of State

Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI-R2): Recovery and Reinvestment – National Science Foundation (NSF)

This is an annual report on trends in health statistics from NCHS. The PDF files for the complete, executive summary, and highlights are available at this link. There is also a special “Chartbook on Young Adult Health”.

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

Administrative Supplements to Study Economic Impact of Interventions Targeting Cancer Survivors and/or their Families – National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Fulbright Specialist Program – Council for the International Exchange of Scholars – U.S. Department of State

Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (P30) – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative – Templeton Foundation

Learn the basics of EndNote and Refworks in two classes at Pattee Library this week:

May 13, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., EndNote: The Basics

May 12, 10 a.m. – 11 a.m., Refworks Basics

Visit the ITS Training Services web site to register.

The PRI Library has received announcement of a summer short course at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

PRI has issued three working papers so far in 2009. All can be downloaded in PDF format.

• Kathryn Hynes and Emily Doyle. Changes in After-School Program Use: 1995-2005 (09-01).
• Suet-ling Pong and Vivien W. Chen. Co-resident Grandparents and Grandchildren’s Academic Performance in Taiwan (09-02).
• Robert Drago. What Would They Do? Childcare under Parental Leave and Reduced Hours Options (09-03, revision of 08-03).

We welcome submissions to the series from faculty and students affiliated with PRI.

If you would like to comment or add additional questionnaire, lab, or exam components for the 2011-12 NHANES wave, please read the memo (PDF) from NHANES director, Dr. Clifford Johnson.

The deadline for submitting items for the Examination component is June 30, 2009.

The PRI Library has received announcement of the 71st National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference to be held November 11-14, 2009 in San Francisco.