Company Profile
Minnesota Population Center
Company Overview
The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) at the University of Minnesota is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research established by the Vice President for Research under the program for "New Initiatives in Interdisciplinary Research." MPC provides a vibrant and highly collaborative interdisciplinary environment for population researchers from many disciplinary backgrounds (www.pop.umn.edu). With core support from NICHD, the center provides shared infrastructure for demographic research and training and coordinates collaborative research across the University. MPC researchers (who come from 26 academic units across 10 colleges in the University) have long worked to improve the shared data infrastructure that underlies all demographic research. The methods we pioneered for recovering, integrating, documenting, and disseminating census and survey data are transforming cross-national and cross-temporal demographic analysis: MPC data infrastructure is shifting the landscape of population research by opening new opportunities for dynamic, comparative, and multilevel analyses. Although best known for its large-scale demographic data infrastructure projects, MPC houses numerous substantive, interdisciplinary research projects on population, health, education, the environment, the labor market, and related issues. The University of Minnesota features several very strong social science units and has one of the top public health schools in the country. As a result, in the past decade MPC's substantive research portfolio has expanded to rival those of larger and longer-established population research centers.
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