Upcoming Meetings

The 1997 SOUTHERN DEMOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING will be in Orlando, Florida, at the Travelodge Hotel in the Disney World Complex, September 25­27. SDA invites submissions from all interested individuals on demographic topics, and encourages paper submissions as well as proposals from individuals to organize sessions, roundtables, software demonstra-tions, panel discussions, or workshops. SDA welcomes graduate student participation via paper submissions for presentation and for consideration for the $100 Student Paper Award, honoring the best paper presented at the meeting. Students who wish to be considered for the award should submit an abstract by the June 1 deadline and a complete paper by August 15. The deadline for submitting program ideas and paper abstracts is June 1. Please send your information to: Rick Rogers, Population Program, Campus Box 484, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309. Phone: 303.492.2147; Email: Richard.Rogers@Colorado.edu

The University of Michigan Population Studies Center and Public Data Queries, with support from the NICHD, will hold an IMMIGRATION DATA WORKSHOP in Ann Arbor, Tuesday, July 8 (noon)through Saturday afternoon, July 12. Spon-sors of this workshop will provide transportation to Ann Arbor, six nights lodging and board. The workshop is intended for research investigators who need to readily access and analyze large data sets to study contemporary and historical immigration to the United States. The data sets that will be available and discussed include:

1. The Integrated Public Use Microdata Samples (IPUMS) from the censuses of 1850 through 1990;
2. The 1%, 5% and 8% Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) from the censuses of 1940 through 1990; and
3. Recent public use samples from the Current Population Surveys that include questions about place of birth of respondent and places of birth of respondents parents.

Principal architects of these public-use data sets will be on hand to discuss their content and to provide guidance. Information will be provided about analy-zing these data using the Public Data Queries EXPLORE software and extracting data files tailored to specific research needs using the EXTRACT program. These extracted data files will be transmitted back to the participants own research facilities. Participants will be able to use the EXPLORE and EXTRACT programs with the data sets after they complete the workshop. Presen-tations of other large-scale data sets useful for immigration research (e.g., Mexican-Migration Project, PSID) will also be made by guest speakers intimately involved with their construction. Applicants with appropriate analytic skills should prepare a two­page description of their research interests in the field of immigration and forward it along with their CV to: Lisa Neidert or Reynolds Farley, University of Michigan Population Studies Center, 1225 South University, Ann Arbor, MI 48104­2590; Email lisan@umich.edu or renf@umich.edu. Applications must be submitted by Friday, April 13 and selected participants will be notified by Monday, April 23

The Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research announces its FIRST ANNUAL POVERTY CENTER RESEARCH CONFERENCE, entitled Evaluating State Policy: The Effective Use of Administrative Data, on June 16-17, at Northwestern U. The program on the first day will bring together researchers and state data officials to discuss the potential and the problems involved in the use of state administrative data, including such topics as data quality, data access, sampling frame problems, linkages between data from different programs, and between administrative data and other data sources. On the second day, researchers will present current work that effectively uses state data. Two-page abstracts are solicited from researchers currently utilizing state administrative data to evaluate social policy, as well as research that discusses methodological issues associated with the use of administrative data. Researchers whose abstracts are accepted for inclusion in the program will be expected to submit a completed paper by June 1. Abstracts must be received no later than March 21. Abstracts should be addressed to Research Conference, Joint Center for Poverty Research, 2046 Sheridan Road, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-4105. Those interested in receiving more information about the conference, but not submitting an abstract, should send an inquiry to the same address or send e-mail to povcen@nwu.edu

PAA has a limited amount of money available to provide partial support for travel by PAA members to the 1997 IUSSP GENERAL POPULATION CONFERENCE IN BEIJING (October 11-17). This funding is made possible by support from the Hewlett Foundation. Applicants must be North American residents and PAA members. Selections will be made by a PAA-appointed committee consisting of Sonalde Desai, William Axinn and Charles Hirschman. Application forms are available from Sonalde Desai, Department of Sociology, U of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-1314; Email SDESAI@BSS1.UMD.EDU. Deadline for submission is May 1, with notification of award by June 1.

The NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION and the LOUISIANA ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES issue a call for papers for a conference on exploring the role of Social and Behavioral Science Careers in the 21st Century. The conference will be held in New Orleans, April 18-20, and abstracts are due by March 7 to LAMP Administrator, Southern University, B Box 9764, Baton Rouge LA 70813; Email: Lamp2@concentric.net