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Food Insecurity and Dementia Risk in U.S. Older Adults: Evidence From the 2013–2021 Panel Study of Income Dynamics AbstractObjectives. Growing research suggests that food insecurity is associated with worse cognitive functioning; however, prospective studies are needed

The answer is A. Food insecurity is shown to increase probable dementia risk by two-fold, with no indication of disparities in this risk based on race, sex, ethnicity, or whether a participant was enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. myumi.ch/159em

Experiencing food insecurity increases dementia risk by how much? A. Risk is increased by two-fold B. There is no increased risk C. Risk is increased by threefold D. Risk is increased minimally

March is #NationalNutritionMonth and is the theme of this month's questions.

Experiencing food insecurity increases dementia risk by how much?
A. Risk is increased by two-fold
B. There is no increased risk
C. Risk is increased by threefold
D. Risk is increased minimally

Welcome to the #FridayQuiz! Friday morning we will set a question & then give the answer in the afternoon. All of our questions are based on publications at our website: src.isr.umich.edu

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Join the @umichstonecid.bsky.social for @shayobrien.bsky.social - Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence
Tuesday, March 10, 10:30am-12:00pm EDT
RSVP to save your seat: myumi.ch/A15MJ
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Registration announcement for the 2026 PSID User Workshop at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, with a deadline to apply by April 15 and event dates in June.

Apply by April 15 for the @umpsid.bsky.social Summer Workshop! This 5 day workshop will orient participants to PSID, its special topics modules, and more! Visit myumi.ch/g3eMP for more information including application requirements.

Reliable, valid patient-reported outcome measures for dementia caregivers are key for research and care. SRC, @rcgd-isr.bsky.social researchers show TBI-CareQOL measures work across caregiving groups—establishing their clinical utility. myumi.ch/Nrj9W

SRC Seminar Series Presents: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice | Happening @ Michigan Presented By: Survey Research Center Ask a Question About This Event

Join us TODAY at 1:00 for @spattersearch.bsky.social: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice
More information & zoom link: events.umich.edu/event/145276
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The Research Center for Group Dynamics & the Origins of Network Analysis Postwar Researchers at U-M made groundbreaking discoveries around how relationships work that continue to help us understand society today “A told B, and B told C, I’ll meet you at the top of a coconu...

Interested in the history of social science? Postwar UM researchers and founders of @rcgd-isr.bsky.social made groundbreaking discoveries about how relationships work and advanced foundational methods used widely today to understand networks.

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Thanks for the shout out for this absolute classic! While eventually superseded by General Interviewing Techniques: A self-instructional workbook for telephone and personal interviewer training, the revised edition of the Interviewer's Manual is still available: hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.8903...

SRC Seminar Series Presents: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice | Happening @ Michigan Presented By: Survey Research Center Ask a Question About This Event

Join us, Tuesday, March 3 at 1:00 for @spattersearch.bsky.social: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice
More information & zoom link: events.umich.edu/event/145276
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SRC Seminar Series Presents: The Impact of Temporary Rental Subsidies on Homelessness: A Randomized Controlled Trial | Happening @ Michigan Presented By: Survey Research Center Ask a Question About This Event

Join us TODAY at 1:00 for James Sullivan: The Impact of Temporary Rental Subsidies on Homelessness: A Randomized Controlled Trial
More information & zoom link: events.umich.edu/event/145099
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New from NaNDA: Broadband Availability by Census Tract & ZCTA, 2025 🗺️📶
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Our 2014–2020 broadband dataset is one of our most-used (1,356 downloads, 5 publications) — and now it's updated. Neighborhood-level internet access data, free at @icpsr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social

Exploring the Impact of Race/Ethnicity Match on Relationship Quality: Incorporating Parent and Home Visitor Perspectives - Maternal and Child Health Journal Objective The primary goal of this study is to investigate whether a race/ethnicity match between parents and home visitors (HV) is associated with their relationship quality and whether quality ratin...

The Home Visitor-parent relationship is key to family engagement in maternal and infant home visiting programs. Exploring race/ethnicity match between participants helps us understand how each views the relationship. Learn more: myumi.ch/QwQpZ @um-ypl.bsky.social

#appliedstatistics #surveymethodology #publichealth | University of Michigan Survey Research Center Brady West is a research professor in the Survey Methodology Program (which he directs) within SRC, and a research professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the U-M School of Public Health. Orig...

Meet @bradytwest.bsky.social of SRC's Survey Methodology Program. His research focuses on methodological advances in #AppliedStatistics, #SurveyMethodology & #PublicHealth. He takes well-deserved pride in his ability to teach complex concepts in #statistics & #methodology myumi.ch/9pzDE

MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Rethinking Methods in the Global Attitudes Project: Explorations in Australia and Sweden | Happening @ Michigan Presented By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Ask a Question About This Event

Join Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science for Sofi Sinozich & @moynihanpatrick.bsky.social (@pewresearch.org): Rethinking Methods in the Global Attitudes Project: Explorations in Australia and Sweden
TODAY, 12:00-1:00pm EDT
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Join the @umichstonecid.bsky.social for Ségal Le Guern Herry (@amse-aixmarseille.fr): Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation
Tuesday, February 17, 10:30am-12:00pm EDT
RSVP to save your seat: myumi.ch/VVmqe
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A Systematic Evaluation of the Performance of Multiple Brain Age Algorithms in Two Cohorts of Youth Performance of five influential brain age estimation algorithms in two population-based cohorts of youth. Brain age was quantified using estimates of brain structure, and performance was evaluated ba....

🧪@colterm.bsky.social, @christophermonk.bsky.social, Luke Hyde & coauthors raise critical questions about what “brain age” means, how it can best be estimated, and whether it can be applied to samples with heterogeneous backgrounds myumi.ch/R3n26

Persistence of loneliness and low self-esteem from adolescence through age 60 in the United States: results from the Monitoring the Future Panel Study - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology Background Depression, loneliness and other psychological distress symptoms are common in the US; lifetime cumulative estimates and life course prospective persistence is under-studied. We use nationa...

Using @mtfstudy.bsky.social data, researchers find depression and loneliness in adolescence predicts later life distress. Intervention and prevention efforts in adolescence are potentially critical for addressing late life mental health problems myumi.ch/qZewg

🧪The aim of a new paper by Sergio Martinez, @bradytwest.bsky.social & @randridge.bsky.social is to motivate broader adoption of the SMUB and MUBP indices as practical and interpretable diagnostics for assessing selection bias in applied survey research, aided by accessible R software myumi.ch/mRmw8

Heather Gatny, William Axinn, Dirgha Ghimire, @bradytwest.bsky.social coauthor with data from the Chitwasn Valley Family Study. @um-src.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social

SRC Seminar Series Presents: The Impact of Temporary Rental Subsidies on Homelessness: A Randomized Controlled Trial | Happening @ Michigan Presented By: Survey Research Center Ask a Question About This Event

Join us, Tuesday, February 24 at 1:00 for Jim Sullivan: The Impact of Temporary Rental Subsidies on Homelessness: A Randomized Controlled Trial
More information & zoom link: events.umich.edu/event/145099
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TODAY: Join the @umichstonecid.bsky.social for Monica Prasad (@jhu.edu): Solving the Biggest Problems: Problem-Solving Sociology and American Populism
Tuesday, February 10, 10:30am-12:00pm EDT
RSVP to save your seat: myumi.ch/kPEMp
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MPSDS JPSM Seminar Series - Rethinking Methods in the Global Attitudes Project: Explorations in Australia and Sweden | Happening @ Michigan

Join Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science for Sofi Sinozich & @moynihanpatrick.bsky.social (@pewresearch.org): Rethinking Methods in the Global Attitudes Project: Explorations in Australia and Sweden
Wednesday, February 18, 12:00-1:00pm EDT
Information/zoom: events.umich.edu/event/139829

This is our new quarterly newsletter that will share Survey Research Center research, media mentions, and publications. Sign up here: myumi.ch/G2pXR

Serving the Public Interest: Insights & Innovations into the Human Lifetime.

The latest issue of Serving the Public Interest: Insights & Innovations into the Human Lifetime is out! myumi.ch/g3m32

We feature Noah Webster of Life Course Development program and Urban & Environmental Studies program. His interest is in the impact of the environment on our social relationships.

AAPOR 2026 Survey Costs Workshop Co-organized by James Wagner February 9-10, 2026 | Bethesda, Maryland Plenary panel: Why discuss cost? James Wagner, Moderator Stephanie Chardoul, Discussant Panel Session #4B: Dashboards for Survey Cost Monitoring: Benefits, Current Approaches and the Need for Standard Measures Stephanie Chardoul, Presenter Paper Session #4C: Cost Estimation Methods James Wagner, Moderator Paper Session #5B: Cost Estimation Problems James Wagner, Presenter

@jameswagner254.bsky.social is co-organizing the @aapor.bsky.social 2026 Survey Costs Workshop Feb 9-10 in Bethesda, MD

Wagner will present Cost Estimation Problems

Stephanie Chardoul will present Dashboards for Survey Cost Monitoring

Both will be part of the plenary panel: Why discuss cost?

SRC Seminar Series Presents: The Way We News Now: How information abundance, news negativity, and media distrust are changing the way Americans engage with journalism | Happening @ Michigan Presented By: Survey Research Center Ask a Question About This Event

Join us TODAY, February 3 at 1:00 for @arielhasell.bsky.social: The Way We News Now: How information abundance, news negativity, and media distrust are changing the way Americans engage with journalism
More information & zoom link: myumi.ch/JPVze
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We Are SRC YouTube video by Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

Celebrating 80 years of social science in the public interest.

SRC’s founders believed social behavior could be understood in terms of attitudes and motivational behaviors, and links could be formed between an academic culture & the applied research of business and government. youtu.be/giSsP7o4PZg

"The questionnaire averaged two and a half hours, so just getting respondents to agree to do that in person was difficult. We learned lots of really valuable lessons on implementing this large, complex study of a special population and we are better for it: protocol, design, interview and respondent engagement." Michigan Daily, January 19, 2026 Stephanie Chardoul, Survey Research Center, Survey Research Operations

The @umisr.bsky.social celebration of #MLK Day highlighted the 25-year follow-up of the National Survey of American Life. Stephanie Chardoul said, "We learned lots of really valuable lessons on implementing this large, complex study of a special population and we are better for it" myumi.ch/w9Gwe

Coffee with LCD YouTube video by Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

January's Coffee and Donuts with the SRC Director was hosted by the #LifeCourseDevelopment program. Noah Webster chatted with SRC director @umpamdk.bsky.social chatted about the work LCD does and how important all social ties are to healthy aging youtu.be/1GX_M-dQY-s?...