Minnesota Population Center

描述（由申请人提供）：明尼苏达州人口中心（MPC）是明尼苏达大学人口研究的跨学科合作。该中心有三个主要目标：促进跨学科人口研究人员之间的联系，开发大规模的合作研究项目，并为人口研究提供基础设施。MPC为来自明尼苏达大学10个学院和21个系的98名教职员工和研究科学家提供服务。作为人口数据的领先开发者和传播者，MPC还为全球60，000多名人口研究人员提供服务。 在过去五年中，该大学在11个系招聘了21名从事人口研究的新教员，使人口政策中心拥有了一批精力充沛、富有成效的新一代学者。这激发了一系列令人兴奋的跨学科人口研究倡议，导致围绕各种不同但相互关联的主题开展的研究活动激增。MPC的卓越研究集群分为八个主题领域：大规模人口数据基础设施;工作，家庭和时间;历史人口学;教育，劳动和生命历程;医疗保健获取和健康差距;人口普查和调查方法;工会和性;人口与环境。 MPC的标志性活动是开发和支持大规模人口数据基础设施。MPC处理和传播的人口微观数据比任何其他组织都多;在过去十年中，该中心发布的人口微观数据是美国人口普查局的13倍，该中心传播了美国最全面的美国人口普查数据和电子人口普查边界文件。MPC数据基础设施正在改变人口研究的格局，为动态、比较和多层次分析提供了新的机会。 通过研究赠款的数量和规模，出版物的数量和质量以及对人口研究基础设施的影响来衡量，MPC已成为全国最大，最有影响力的人口研究中心之一。如果没有R24的资助，这些成功是不可能发生的。货币政策委员会现在寻求继续提供资金，以加强这一势头。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research at the University of Minnesota. The center has three main goals: to foster connections among population researchers across disciplines, to develop large-scale collaborative research projects, and to provide infrastructure for demographic research. MPC serves 98 faculty members and research scientists from 10 colleges and 21 departments at the University of Minnesota. As a leading developer and disseminator of demographic data, MPC also serves a broader audience of over 60,000 demographic researchers worldwide. During the past five years, the University has recruited 21 new faculty members in 11 departments who are engaged in population-related research, giving MPC an energetic and productive new generation of scholars. This has stimulated an exciting array of interdisciplinary population research initiatives, leading to a proliferation of research activity around diverse but interrelated themes. MPC clusters of research excellence fall into eight thematic areas: large-scale demographic data infrastructure; work, family, and time; historical demography; education, labor, and the life course; healthcare access and health disparities; census and survey methodology; unions and sexuality; and population and environment. MPC's signature activity is the development and support of large-scale population data infrastructure. MPC processes and disseminates more publicly-accessible demographic microdata than any other organization; during the past decade, the Center released thirteen times as much population microdata as the U.S. Census Bureau and the Center disseminate the nation's most comprehensive collection of aggregate U.S. Census data and electronic census boundary files. MPC data infrastructure is shifting the landscape of population research by opening new opportunities for dynamic, comparative, and multilevel analyses. Measured by number and size of research grants, number and quality of publications and impact on population research infrastructure, MPC has become one of the largest and most influential population research centers in the nation. These successes could not have occurred without R24 funding. MPC now seeks continued funding to build on this momentum.