Julia A. Rivera Drew

The newest NHIS data are now available through IPUMS!

01.08.2025 20:50 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

CDC issues 15 calls for comment | Federal Data Users Today's Federal Register includes many calls for comment on CDC data collections, including the following: - National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System -

I should note that this is just one of several dozen calls for comment about health data that have come out over the past week. You can find a running list here:
federaldataforum.prb.org/discussion/c...

16.06.2025 16:25 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Check out this blog post describing our hands-on IAPHS workshop from fall 2024 featuring the NHIS LMF data harmonized by IPUMS. @ipums.bsky.social

04.06.2025 15:40 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A screen shot of the National Couples' Health and Time Study webiste at DSDR, with the language "This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives." at the top circled in red.

I just noticed that NCHAT's @icpsr.bsky.social website has a new disclaimer "This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives." I am not sure what this means, but I wanted to let everyone know.

07.04.2025 14:53 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

That's amazing, what a great outcome!

24.03.2025 13:36 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Contribution of Drug Overdose to Educational Gradients in Life Expectancy in the United States, 1992–2011 - Demography Since the mid-1990s, the United States has witnessed a dramatic rise in drug overdose mortality. Educational gradients in life expectancy widened over the same period, and drug overdose likely plays a...

I've always thought Jessica Ho's piece on the contribution of opioid overdoses to the education gradient in life expectancy was a clever way of getting around imperfect mortality data by combining data from two different sources. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

19.01.2025 20:58 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

🌟Please share this great funding opportunity! 🌟Apply by 1/24/25 for IRP's National Dissertation Award For Research On Poverty And Economic Mobility 2025–2026. For more info on this $25,000 award & to view an informational webinar, visit: www.irp.wisc.edu/national-dis...

16.01.2025 15:20 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 2

IPUMS DHS Climate Change and Health Research Hub Understand population health in its environmental context

...and the Climate Change and Health Hub using DHS data: tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...

19.12.2024 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Exercises using the IPUMS DHS data: www.idhsdata.org/idhs/exercis...

19.12.2024 17:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

IPUMS Research Awards | IPUMS The IPUMS Research Awards honor outstanding research using IPUMS data to advance or deepen our understanding of social and demographic processes. We look for papers that use innovative approaches, com...

Check out the IPUMS Global Health annual research award winners for 2018-2023 www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...

19.12.2024 17:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Plans to link the 1950 full count to HRS, WLS, NSHAP, and Kaiser's ACT are documented here: assets.ipums.org/_files/ipums...

11.12.2024 03:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

The Validity and Reliability of Retrospective Measures of Childhood Socioeconomic Status in the Health and Retirement Study: Evidence From the 1940 U.S. Census - PubMed Researchers who rely on retrospective indicators of childhood SES from the HRS should be aware of their measurement properties. They are measured with error, and that error modestly attenuates estimat...

You may want to check out the 1940 full count census data that has already been linked to records in the HRS.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35263760/
hrs.isr.umich.edu/sites/defaul...

11.12.2024 03:06 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0