In this article, the authors describe a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center (MPC), the U.S. Census Bureau, and the National Archives and Records Administration to restore the lost data from the 1960 Census. The data survived on refrigerated microfilm in a cave in Lenexa, Kansas. The MPC is now converting the data to usable form. Once the restored data are processed, the authors int...

BACKGROUND Housing instability has been associated with poor health outcomes among people who inject drugs (PWID). This study investigates the associations of local-level housing and economic conditions with homelessness among a large sample of PWID, which is an underexplored topic to date. METHODS PWID in this cross-sectional study were recruited from 19 large cities in the USA as part of Na...

extended abstract 1. introduction in recent decades, especial plan to improve rural housing in 1974 has begun by islamic revolution’s housing foundation. the aims were to improve rural context and the promotion of health, safety, and welfare of rural housing. with regarded to accelerating in possess of providing loans and banking facilities to rural housing sector in the form of various project...

BACKGROUND The use of census data to measure maternal mortality is a recent phenomenon, implemented in settings with non-functional vital registration systems and driven by needs for trend data. The 2010 round of population and housing censuses recorded a significant increase in the number of countries collecting maternal mortality data. The objective of this study was to estimate rural-urban d...

Any member of the United Nations has to carry out an entire national census between the years 2005 and 2014. While the demographic characteristics of the population in the still very widespread traditional census are determined by directly contacting citizens, the new kind of register-based census represents a radical shift in the way censuses are conducted, involving an entirely new set of tas...

In the wake of the housing market crash in the United States in the late 2000s, images of abandoned homes on the urban periphery of American cities dominated international media coverage. This narrative of peri-urban over-extension was used by media documenting the housing crisis in Mexico, despite the profound differences in context, namely the role of the government in housing finance. This p...

Abstract Health insurance is important in disease management, access to quality health care and attaining Universal Care. National regional data on coverage needed for policy making mostly obtained from household surveys; however, estimates at lower administrative units like the county level Kenya are highly variable due small sample sizes. Small area estimation combines survey census using a m...

A necessary condition for justifying a policy such as subsidized low-income housing, either via tenant-based rental assistance or construction of public or private projects, is that it has a real effect on market outcomes. In this paper, we examine one aspect of the real effect of subsidized housing – does it increase the housing stock? If subsidized housing raises the quantity of occupied hous...

BACKGROUND In recent years publications have called for increased use of administrative data for research; predicted that use would rise; and discussed possible ethical parameters for that use. This paper describes the novel combination of three administrative datasets to create a population cohort for environmental health research, and investigates the potential use of a national health regist...