PRB Launches Federal Data Forum Amid Rising Threats to Public Data
New online community will foster connection and collaboration among federal data users across sectors and states
New online community will foster connection and collaboration among federal data users across sectors and states
(2007) With continuing political turmoil, emergency rule declared, and concerns about how free and fair January elections will be, Pakistan has been under the spotlight recently. But the political arena isn't the only area where challenges persist.
By law, the U.S. government is required to count the number of people living in the United States every 10 years.
(2003) From instituting new maternal health policies to addressing the quality of health services for pregnant women and their newborns, Guatemala is taking a number of steps to try to reduce deaths and disability related to pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum complications.
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.
(2005) Public attention has begun to focus on the "demographic divide," the vast gulf in birth and death rates among the world's countries.
(2006) Adolescent U.S. girls are being arrested in record numbers. And every year brings new media attention to mean or aggressive girls' behavior—with sensational newspaper headlines and book titles such as See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It and Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence.1 Could there be an epidemic of violence in the United States among girls—who have traditionally been considered more mature and less trouble to raise than boys?
(August 2006) The chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, have come under increased pressure from four decades of high human population growth in the region and an associated increase in human activity and disease.