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PAA Special Workshops

Population Association of America Annual Meeting - April 25-28

Following are some of the important side-meetings taking place at the PAA Annual Meeting this year.

Using the NLSY for your research

Wednesday, April 25
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Deborah Carr (PI of the NLSY79) and Elizabeth Cooksey (PI of the NLSY79 Child and Young Adult studies) will provide an overview to the NLSY79 (including the NLSY Child and Young Adult surveys) and the NLSY97, present information on data updates and future survey directions, and show new and returning users how to search through the thousands of variables and download data into SPSS, SAS, STATA and R.

If you are interested in any life course stages from childhood to "early" aging, we have longitudinal data for you! The NLSY79 has tracked respondents for nearly 40 years, and the oldest respondents recently turned 60, while NLSY97 respondents have been tracked for more than 20 years, are now in their thirties. See www.nlsinfo.org

This is a member initiated meeting, and is free of charge. There is no need to reserve a place, but if you do plan to attend, it would be helpful if you could just email Elizabeth at .

Demographic Research in the Digital Age

Wednesday, April 25
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Organizing committee: Emilio Zagheni, Francesco Billari, Guy Abel
Keynote speaker: Dennis Feehan

“Estimating Internet Adoption around the World using a Sample of Facebook Users”,

followed by a mini-tutorial on “Getting started with network methods for estimation of demographic quantities”

Demography has been a data-driven discipline since its birth. Data collection and the development of formal methods have sustained most of the major advances in our understanding of population processes. The global spread of Internet, social media, cellphones and, more broadly, digital technologies, have generated new opportunities for demographic research. At the same time, the use of social media, Internet and smartphones are affecting people's daily activities as well as life planning, with implications for demographic behavior.

This workshop is intended to favor communication and exchange between researchers who study the implications of digital technologies for demographic behavior as well as the applications of new data from digital sources to understand population processes.

ALL participants who would like to attend the workshop session must register online, both those who would like to present and those who wish only to attend without presenting. There are a limited number of places, which will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Workshop Registration Form

Panel Study of Income Dynamics Workshop for New and Prospective Users

Wednesday, April 25
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

This interactive workshop is geared toward current and prospective users of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID, psid.org), the world’s longest running longitudinal household panel survey. It provides an overview of the general structure and content of the PSID and its supplemental surveys (including the original and ongoing Child Development Supplements, the Transition into Adulthood Supplement, and the Disability and Use of Time Supplement) as well as on recent data collection efforts (the 2013 Rosters & Transfers Module, the 2014 Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study, the 2016 Wellbeing and Daily Life Supplement, and the 2017 immigrant refresher). The second half of the workshop includes a walk‐through of the PSID website, documentation, and data center as well as a question and answer session. The PSID has collected data on a wide range of topics relevant to demography from a nationally representative sample of US families and their descendants since 1968. Content domains include employment, occupations, income, wealth, education, expenditures, health, aging, marriage, childbearing, child development, youth transitions, philanthropy, intergenerational relations, and numerous other topics.

For information, contact , University of Michigan

Assessing the Marriage of Demography, Genetics, and Population Health

Thursday, April 26
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

This year's reception and discussion for population health scientists will be co-chaired by Jason Boardman, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Mike Spittel, OBSSR.  As in previous years, we will be leading presentations and audience discussions about a key population health issue.  Planning for the program has just begun so the topic and speakers are not yet available. We were fortunate to have contributions from four population centers (Washington, Wisconsin, Texas and Columbia) last year to support the reception and will be seeking similar contributions this year.

For information, contact , University of Maryland

Facebook Demography and Survey Science Info Chat

Friday, April 27
12:00 Noon

Two Research Scientists from Facebook will talk about their roles, share stories about projects they have led and how they continue to impact over 1 billion users.

RSVP requested by April 25