Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
(2018) Under the EEDA Resource Hub Activity, PRB partnered with DSW to create communications products that will advance family planning advocacy in Kenya and Uganda.
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
As the large baby boomer population ages, the total number of people with dementia in the United States will rise.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
(2018) Uganda’s Kalangala District has higher rates of HIV and teenage pregnancy than most of the country. Almost 50 percent of teenage girls in the district are mothers and 18 percent of adults have HIV—both rates are two to three times higher than the rest of Uganda.
The Census counts every person who usually lives in the United States. They don’t have to be a U.S. citizen, but they do have to call this country their primary home.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2019) The ACS conference began with some Census Bureau updates on activities and operations. Steven Dillingham, the Census Bureau Director, expressed the importance the ACS and said “data users are the key to the continuous improvement” of the flagship survey.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
(2018) Children who enter kindergarten after experiencing repeated household changes are more likely to display problem behaviors that inhibit learning and disrupt classrooms, Paula Fomby of the University of Michigan and Stefanie Mollborn of the University of Colorado show.
Veteran technology and global health leader will help guide PRB’s strategy to harness data to improve lives around the world.
Attempts at immigration reform should address issues that have been with us, in various guises, for at least a century.
Project: Empowering Evidence-Driven Advocacy
In 2018, Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and the International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP) conducted interviews and focus groups in three Ethiopian regions to assess implementation of youth-friendly contraceptive services.