Census Bureau experts recommend NOT using the Post Enumeration Survey (PES) to update the 2020 population estimates because "While the PES is helpful in identifying coverage issues at the national level, it is not able to identify them as accurately at lower levels of geography because of its design. The PES sample size was simply too small."
The National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT) is the first fully powered, population-representative study of couples in America containing large samples of sexual, gender, and racial and ethnic diverse individuals.
Today, a young American woman between the ages of 25 and 34 face higher mortality rates than at any other point in more than 50 years. And had the mortality rate remained flat between 2000 and 2021, nearly 40,000 young women would not have died.
~Sara Srygley of PRB
Yep. I made the team triple check the data before we published anything. But it's true.
Part of the story is pandemic deaths, but a lot is rising rates of suicide, homicide, pregnancy-related mortality--and a whole bunch of other things that were going in the wrong direction before 2020.
Minors in TX faced a range of barriers to finding accurate info & obtaining confidential contraceptive services, which were exacerbated by the #COVID19 pandemic. Expanding options for accessible confidential contraception, along w repealing parental consent laws, would better support minors' reproductive autonomy. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36604208/
Doing research that uses ZIP Codes as the smallest geographic identifier? Want to use them longitudinally? Better watch out for missing data or measurement error due to changing boundaries.
Luckily, my colleague Allison Helmuth (at Rice) and I put together this cool data crosswalk that covers 1990 - 2020...
Although dating violence is highly prevalent among sexual minority youth, data collection efforts would benefit from additional research https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37587915
Myth busted: Most students do not drink alcohol around prom, graduation, parties but nearly all think typical seniors do. Students who did drink alcohol tended to drink heavily, particularly during prom.
New research provides insight into parental-child estrangement in the U.S., describes differences by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality, and discusses implications. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37304343