The PRI library has received announcement of the following positions with the Office of Population Research at Princeton University:

• postdoctoral research associate
• NIH postdoctoral fellowship

Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS II) follow-up data (2004-2006) is available from ICPSR.

PRI has MIDUS 1995-1996 data in our archive, but we do not have the most recent corrected version and we do not have MIDUS II. PRI affiliates can access these data files directly from ICPSR or request that they be added to the archive by contacting the data archivist.

Bhandari, Shailesh.
Employment -based health insurance: 1997
CPR P70-81
707 Oswald (Library) – File Cabinets

Bhandari, Shailesh. Gifford, Elizabeth.
Children with health insurance: 2001
CPR P60-224
707 Oswald (Library) – File Cabinets

Ghana Statistical Service. Ghana Health Service. ICF Macro.
Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2008
Online

Ghana Statistical Service. Ghana Health Service. Macro International Inc.
Ghana Maternal Health Survey 2007
Online

Kuenzi, Jeffery. Reschovsky, Clara A.
Home-based workers in the United States: 1997
CPR P70-78
707 Oswald (Library) – File Cabinets

Mills, Robert J.
Health insurance coverage: 2001
CPR P60-220
707 Oswald (Library) – File Cabinets

Mills, Robert J. Bhandari, Shailesh.
Health insurance coverage in the United States: 2002
CPR P60-223
707 Oswald (Library) – File Cabinets

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Bureau of Statistics. ORC Macro.
Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey 2004
Online

National Center for Health Statistics
Planning and development of the continuous National
Survey of Family Growth
RA409.U44 no. 48
707 Oswald (Library)

Proctor, Bernadette D. Dalaker, Joseph.
Poverty in the United States: 2002
CPR P60-222
707 Oswald (Library) – File Cabinets

Smith, Kristin. Downs, Barbara. O’Connell, Martin.
Maternity leave and employment patterns: 1961- 1995
CPR P70-79
707 Oswald (Library) – File Cabinets

U.S Department of Health and Human Services
Injury episodes and circumstances: National Health
Interview Survey, 1997-2007
RA407.3.A346 no. 240
707 Oswald (Library)

The PRI Library has received announcement of the ninth Add Health Data User Conference, to be held July 22-23, 2010 in Bethesda, MD.

Restricted National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) data will soon be managed by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

Existing data contracts will not experience any interruption, but any requests for contract renewals or changes will be handled by ICPSR after Dec. 15, 2009. A moratorium on new contracts is in place from Oct. 30, 2009 to January 2010 when the new online restricted data request system is scheduled to be in place.

For more information, see the Add Health announcement. PRI researchers: please contact the data archivist if you have any questions.

TIME Magazine features research by nutritionists using Add Health Romantic Pairs data showing that married people are much more likely than those who are dating to gain weight.

See also: The, N. S., & Gordon-Larsen, P. (2009). Entry into romantic partnership is associated with obesity. Obesity.

Asia Pacific Issues; No. 90 September 2009. The New ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Toothless Tiger of Tentative First Steps?

Backgrounder; September 2009. A Biblical Perspective on Immigration Policy.

Backgrounder; September 2009. The Immigrant Paradox: The Stalled Progress of Recent Immigrant’s Children.

Cityscape; Volume 11 Number 2, 2009. Regulatory Innovation and Affordable Housing.

Family Relations; Volume 58 Number 4, October 2009.

International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health; Volume 35 Number 3, September 2009.

National Vital Statistics Reports; Volume 58 Number 2, August 28, 2009. The Effect of Hurricane Katrina: Births in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region, Before and After the Storm.

Population and Development Review; Volume 35 Number 3, September 2009.

The Stata Journal; Volume 9 Number 3, 3rd quarter 2009.

The Stata News; Volume 24 Number 3, July/August/September 2009.

Studies in Family Planning; Volume 40 Number 2, June 2009.

World Bank Research Digest; Volume 3 Number 4, Summer 2009. Trade and the Current Crisis.

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

Dissertation Fellowships – Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Health Impact Project – Pew Charitable Trusts – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Research Grants – Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity, and Energy Balance (R01) [NICHD added as sponsor] – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity, and Energy Balance (R21) [NICHD added as sponsor] – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

Roadmap Transformative Research Projects Program (R01) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Fragile Families (FF) Baseline, One-Year, and Three-Year Core files were updated and re-released in May 2008. Three-Year In-Home files were updated and re-released in March 2009.

Five-Year Core and In-Home files are also now available.

These data can be downloaded from the Princeton Office for Population Research.

If you are a PRI affiliate and would like updated or new files to be added to the SodaPop FF data collection, please contact the data archivist.

The PRI Library has received an announcement for a post-doctoral fellowhip at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), Johannesburg, South Africa.