New Study Highlights Widening Racial Wealth Gap, Experts Offer Solutions to Reverse It. (Fenaba Addo, Atlanta Black Star) More exercise, fewer calories? Weight loss is more complicated than that. (Penny Gordon-Larsen, USA Today) Young people lag behind others in getting … Read more
A branch of the Triangle Research Data Center — part of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Federal Statistical Research Data Center program — will be opening at the Carolina Population Center soon. If you’d like more information and sporadic notifications, please … Read more
UNC Researchers Find College Drinking Declined Early in the Pandemic (Jane Fruehwirth, Krista Perreira) Back To School During A Global Pandemic (Cassandra Davis) Barbara Entwisle was appointed to the Census Scientific Advisory Committee for a three-year term. Fenaba Addo was … Read more
As temperatures grow warmer around the globe, we’ve witnessed an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events. Nearly half of the global disasters over the past two decades have been caused by extreme precipitation and flooding, including … Read more
Kathleen Mullan Harris Talks About Her Congressional Testimony on Life Expectancy (IAPHS) In Places Like Rural NC, ‘Deaths Of Despair’ And Education Level Lead To Decline In Life Expectancy (Kathleen Mullan Harris, WFAE) ‘I Won’t Feel Safe Until We’re All … Read more
Add Health is pleased to announce that the Wave V Public-Use data has been released is now available to download. Wave V Public-Use Data is a smaller sample of the Wave V Mixed-Mode Survey Data. This sample, like the other … Read more
In the news The Global Food Research Program launched a newly redesigned website Carolina Demography‘s work was featured in The Daily Tar Heel, Think Currituck, the NC Local News newsletter, on CBS17, in The Enterprise, and in the News and … Read more
Black graduates’ household incomes have grown more slowly than those of college graduates in general (Fenaba Addo) Census results indicate slight 2% population growth for Carteret concentrated in western areas of county (Carolina Demography) Forsyth and Guilford counties see population … Read more
Dear Add Health Investigators, We are excited to announce that the Add Health Navigator is now live! Add Health Navigator is Add Health’s Colectica portal that provides the ability to search codebooks, view wave to wave variable comparison and create … Read more
A recently published study in The Lancet Planetary Health shows that Chile’s package of healthy food policies successfully reduced purchases of unhealthy food and drinks during the first phase of the law’s implementation. Researchers from the University of Chile, University … Read more
