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Phil Sirinides shared highlights about ISRA's contributions over the past five decades at Penn State Harrisburg's academic year kick-off celebration. Afterwards, ISRA hosted an ice cream social in celebration of its 50th anniversary.

Phil Sirinides, Ellory Dabbs, and Missy Coffey shared findings from the 2022 Early Childhood Integrated National Study at the 2023 Stats-DC data conference sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Educational Sciences (IES)...

Pennsylvania’s older population cohorts continued to grow from 2020 to 2022. The population age 75 to 79 and age 70 to 74 were the fastest growing cohorts (11.2% and 5.5%, respectively).

Pennsylvania’s number of Black-owned businesses increased by 16.5 percent from 2017 to 2021. In contrast, all Pennsylvania businesses regardless of ownership decreased (-1.4%) over the same period. 

The greater Pittsburgh region is still declining, with suburbs closest to the city limits and the Mon Valley shrinking the most, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Still, new data breakdowns show a number of municipalities saw impressive growth and other surprises.

A total of 750 municipalities in Pennsylvania experienced an increase in population between the 2020 population estimate base (hereafter 2020) and the July 1, 2022 population estimate (hereafter 2022). A total of 77 municipalities were population neutral between 2020 and 2022 while 1,745...

This year's conference featured keynote and plenary sessions related to state and regional efforts to make data open and accessible. Concurrent sessions featured two tracks: 1) U.S. Census Bureau staff providing updates on Census data products and tools as well as data analysts and 2) researchers...

The Center for Research team partnered with other Penn State researchers and the Public Good Projects (PGP) on an American Association for Public Opinion Research conference session that focused on cross-sector collaboration. By collaborating closely with the Life Unites Us (LUU) digital public...

The Pennsylvania Courts, in partnership with the Pennsylvania State Data Center, have developed a new interactive tool that allows users to visualize the boundaries of all 512 magisterial district courts (MDC) in Pennsylvania.

The Center for Survey Research discussed landowner perceptions of chronic wasting disease management techniques using data collected during a series of projects with the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

A survey recently conducted by the Center for Survey Research at Penn State Harrisburg’s Institute of State and Regional Affairs has found that Pennsylvanians are divided over the role firearms play in making schools safer.

A recent survey carried out by Penn State Harrisburg looked into the opinions of Pennsylvanians regarding firearms, school safety, and home safety.