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LynnBlewett @lynnblewett.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

IPUMS health surveys offers an integrated and harmonized version of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) the world’s longest running annual, population survey of health. bsky.app/profile/ipum... @minnpop.bsky.social lcc.umn.edu/node/2106

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Using IPUMS NHIS to Study Aging and Health | LIFE COURSE CENTER, AN NIA CENTER ON THE DEMOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS OF AGING

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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We are exhibiting at the @healthjournalism.org Health Journalism Conference, being held in Minneapolis this week. Stop by our exhibit table to learn more about health data available from IPUMS! bit.ly/4dzX9Kh

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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

NIH is reworking social and behavioral study sections including *eliminating SSPA and SSPB*. There will be one new study section Population Dynamics and Health. Bad news since SSP originally received so many applications, they needed 2 difft study sections to process them. :( #demography

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

In “Cohort Prevalence Estimates Are Sensitive to Prebaseline Mortality,” Molly Rosenberg et al. show that “prebaseline mortality patterns can meaningfully impact health outcome measures in cohort studies” & so represent a potential source of bias. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

It must be very hard to publish null results
Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.

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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The CPS 2025 November monthly data are now available on IPUMS CPS 🎉 CPS data collection and processing were among the many U.S. government programs and services interrupted by the October 1-November 12, 2025 U.S. government shutdown. Learn more: blog.popdata.org/2025-u-s-gov...

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A Missing Piece: The 2025 U.S. Government Shutdown and the Current Population Survey – Use It for Good

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

1/ The BLS has published an FAQ about the November Current Population Survey (CPS data). bls.gov/cps/methods/... (Recall, in his press conference Powell mentioned "technical" issues with some November surveys.)

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

NextGenPop is a 2-week, in-person, on-campus summer experience for undergrads aiming to increase the diversity of the population field and nurture the next generation of scholars. The summer 2026 session will be hosted by the University of Minnesota! Application deadline February 5. buff.ly/IO6P52W

NextGenPop scholars at the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2022

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Julia A. Rivera Drew @juliariveradrew.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The newest NHIS data are now available through IPUMS!

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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...

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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 -

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Julia A. Rivera Drew @juliariveradrew.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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

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Claire Kamp Dush @clairekampdush.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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.

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.

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Institute for Research on Poverty @irpwisc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🌟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...

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