Better Data, Better Decisions: How the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey Benefits Business and Government

Annie E. Casey Foundation sponsored two congressional briefings on the importance of the American Community Survey ACS for business and government.

PRB senior demographer Carl Haub uncovers how demographers estimate what the population of a country or the world will be.

American families have changed dramatically with profound implications for the role of work-family policies in promoting child well-being. As part of PRB's Policy Seminar series Jane Waldfogel described major types of work-family policies and assessed the adequacy of current U.S. policies.

In this PRB webinar delivered to the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT Network PRB s Mark Mather discusses what to expect from the new ACS estimates and offers some practical guidelines for working with the data.

How is an "immigrant" definied? Why do people migrate? How is the world becoming a "melting pot?" In this video, PRB senior demographer Carl Haub answers these questions and clarifies how migration affects population.

There have been some exciting new developments in contraceptive research and implementation, but what are the most promising ones? These and other questions from science to research to the field were addressed by a panel of experts as part of PRB's 2010-2011 Policy Seminar series. A panel of expert…

During a PRB Policy Seminar, Linda Waite, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, described an effort by her and colleagues to categorize older people into "classes" of health. We can trace health trajectories for people at older ages, but age by itself does not determine these pathways…

Bill Butz talks with James Vaupel about the amazing increase in human longevity over the past 200 years and how much longer human life expectancy can be extended.

In her presentation as part of PRB's Policy Seminar series, Karen Hardee identified existing connections between climate change and sustainable development, and made some recommendations for stronger and more durable links.

Bill Butz talks with Terence Hull about the 2010 Indonesian census, the challenges of working in a multiethnic and geographically varied landscape, and the successes of using technology to reach more people.

PRB and the Hopkins Population Center sponsored the 4th Annual Symposium on Policy and Health: "Family Care for an Aging Population: Demographic Contexts and Policy Challenges."

PRB senior demographer Carl Haub uncovers the trends behind the 20th century world population "explosion" and how declining death rates and rising life expectancy lead to higher population.