Oct 20, 2010

On Tuesday, Oct. 19, a new Census Research Data Center opened in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. CPC Fellow Ted Mouw is one of the researchers who will use the center’s data. A story about the new center appeared in the News & Observer.

Excerpt of the story:

UNC-Chapel Hill sociologist Ted Mouw hopes to inject some cold data into a red-hot public debate. In dealing with the rhetoric related to immigration and its impact on the job market, Mouw is using a research tool coveted by social scientists: a U.S. Census Bureau facility housing massive amounts of confidential “microdata.”

Read the full story:

RTP center will store census data
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/10/19/748557/census-data-in-new-home.html

News release about the new center from the U.S. Census Bureau:

U.S. Census Bureau Opens New Research Laboratory in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park
http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/miscellaneous/cb10-158.html