(2009) Each year, an estimated 9 million infants are born with a serious birth defect that may kill them or result in a lifelong disability. Such birth defects have an especially severe effect on children in developing countries.
(2011) In her new book, The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security, author Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba argues that the future of warfare will be shaped by demographic trends in fertility, mortality, and migration.
(2010) Family planning is one of the most cost-effective health interventions in the developing world.
(2008) The U.S. population is aging: The ratio of elderly to the working-age population in the United States will roughly double over the next few decades, straining the finances of the U.S. Social Security system and other government programs.
PRB identifies factors predicting where children under age 5 are more likely to be missed in the 2020 Census and develops a new undercount risk measure for young children.
2010) Hurricane Katrina displaced almost the entire population of New Orleans in August 2005, scattering residents across the region, state, and country. By the fall of 2006, almost half the residents had returned, and almost two-thirds had returned by the fall of 2007.
Our analysis focuses on the factors that are most closely associated with the net undercount of children in the census, based on the Census Bureau’s Revised 2018 Experimental Demographic Analysis Estimates.
Our analysis focuses on the factors that are most closely associated with the net undercount of children in the census, based on the Census Bureau’s Revised 2018 Experimental Demographic Analysis Estimates.