The Wisconsin Moms Study (WiscMoms) is a study of about 250 mothers of young children in the Milwaukee area. Researchers are interested in a number of topics, among them the household make-up of families in which siblings might have different fathers, the security and availability of food and other necessary resources, and the ways in which young mothers make use of their social network.
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UWSC Staff to participate in the 51st annual International Field Directors and Technologies Conference (IFD&TC)
Many staff from the UWSC will participate in the 51st annual IFD&TC in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 21st – 24th 2017. Staff will participate by giving presentations, leading panel and round table discussions, and …
UWSC researchers examine factors associated with providing biomarkers by mail among graduates in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
UWSC researchers along with collaborators at Loyola University Chicago and UW-Madison recently published findings in Public Opinion Quarterly of a study examining factors associated with compliance to a request to provide a salivary DNA sample …
UWSC staff to participate in the 72nd annual AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research) Conference
Several staff from the UWSC will present at the annual meeting of the 2017 conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 18-21. As in previous years, …
UWSC’s involvement in Midlife in the US (MIDUS) Study highlighted in Inside UW-Madison News
Inside UW-Madison News January 19th edition focuses on “Telling the tale of midlife in the United States” by examining the Midlife in the US (MIDUS) Study. UWSC has been a collaborator with MIDUS since 2000, …
UWSC staff participate in the 41st annual conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR)
UWSC staff presented papers at the annual meeting of the 2016 conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR) in Chicago, Illinois on November 18-19.
Big Read author and UWSC client Matthew Desmond talks about Evicted
On Tuesday November 1, Matthew Desmond will discuss his book Evicted as part of the UW’s Go Big Read events: https://gobigread.wisc.edu/. Desmond, a MacArthur Fellow who is currently at Harvard, received his Ph.D. in Sociology …
University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Climate Student Survey
The UW Survey Center worked in collaboration with the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement to conduct a campus-wide student climate survey in the fall of 2016.
UWSC’s John Stevenson and Kerryann DiLoreto interviewed by Andrew Flowers, of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight.com
A new article on FiveThirtyEight.com, “How We Undercounted Evictions By Asking The Wrong Questions,” underscores the critical role of UWSC in successfully executing Matt Desmond’s groundbreaking study on eviction in Milwaukee. Over many years and …
Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
Every other year, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), conducts the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) of High School students.