New Data from IPUMS and the Minnesota Population Center

New Data from IPUMS and the Minnesota Population Center In 2011, the Minnesota Population Center released the following new data. The IPUMS-USA project has added the 2010 American Community Survey(ACS) public-use microdata file and the 2008-2010…

Complimentary EndNote X5 Training

Software Central presents EndNote X5 training on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 in 63-105 CHS. There is no cost for this training. The EndNote trainer will be offering two sessions, one for Beginners and one for Advanced Users. Bring your 'how…

Talk by Prof. Chase-Lansdale: Escape from Poverty: Two-Generation Education Interventions for Low-Income Parents and Children

Escape from Poverty: Two-Generation Education Interventions for Low-Income Parents and Children P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale Northwestern University Monday, February 27th at 12-1pm in Moore Hall room 3320 (UCLA campus) Abstract: This presentation…

Multilevel Modeling Workshop

The Multilevel Modeling workshop is scheduled for Friday, January 27th from 12:00pm-2:00pm. To allow participants to follow along using Stata, the location has been moved to SSC Computer Lab 2035H. The SSC Computer Labs are located on the 2nd…

Congratulations to Paul Chung, M.D., M.S.!

Dear Colleagues: Please join me in congratulating Paul Chung, M.D., M.S., on his new appointment as: Chief, Division of General Pediatrics Department of Pediatrics David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles The…

Congrats to Tara McKay!

Tara McKay has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation for her project titled  “The Local Implementation of Global AIDS Prevention Policies.”

William Clark comments on “Is California Too Big?”

Sure—and why stop at two? Not that it’ll solve anything. About 60 percent of the countries that make up the United Nations are smaller than Los Angeles County, yet many of these nations would prefer to split themselves into even smaller…

CDL Data Management Planning Tool

Hello all, Recently UCoP or the California Digital Library announced an online data management planning tool. "The University of California and several other major research institutions have partnered to develop the DMPTool, a flexible online…

Update on the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (MRRS)

Update on the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (MRRS) The MRRS is a panel study designed to better understand how the recession has affected the well-being of workers and families.   Data collection for Wave 2 was completed in August…