NCFR Annual Conference Grant Writing Workshop Presented by Susan Brown

Married and Cohabiting Couples Pilot Data Released for Public Use

Counting Couples, Counting Families 2011 Research Conference Registration Closes

Fathers and Fathering Small Grants Awarded

BGSU Graduate Research Assistantships Offered

Small Grants Competition Closed

Gary Gates Presents Demographic Perspectives on Same-Sex Couples

County-Level Marriage & Divorce Data 2000 Released 

Familial Responses to Financial Instability Pilot Data Available for Public Use

NCFMR Co-Director Susan Brown to Present Grant Writing Workshop at National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference
S/NP Grant Writing 101 Seminar: Writing a Fundable Center Grant
Session ID#: 231
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011
Time: 1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
Session Location: NCFR Annual Conference, Salon 4

Link to NCFR website for further details

Pilot Data Released for Public Use
Married and Cohabiting Couples
We are pleased to announce the release of the Married and Cohabiting Couples pilot data via the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). The data were collected between July and October 2010 by teams of researchers from across the country. The NCFMR contracted with the large, web-based household survey Knowledge Networks panel to provide the research teams with an opportunity to field test new items exploring innovative measures that will help to answer new research questions on married and cohabiting relationships. The data provide researchers with a unique opportunity to examine both married and cohabiting couple relationships from the perspectives of both spouses/partners.

Click here to Quick Download the Married and Cohabiting Couples, 2010 data projects from the ICPSR website. 

Pilot Data Projects and Research Teams

Measures of Cohabitation: A Binary Variable Problem?

Sarah Halpern-Meekin and Laura Tach, Co-PIs
Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine

Factors Affecting Adults’ Knowledge of their Partner’s Medical Treatment Preferences

Sara M. Moorman and Deborah Carr, Co-PIs
Boston College, Department of Sociology and Institute on Aging 
Rutgers University, Department of Sociology

Proposal to Administer the Marital Disillusionment Scale in the Knowledge Networks Panel Survey

Sylvia Niehuis and Alan Reifman, Co-PIs 
Texas Tech University, Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Gender, Beliefs about Spouses' Work-Family Conflict, and Relationship Quality

Kei Nomaguchi and Melissa Milkie, Co-PIs
Bowling Green State University, Department of Sociology
University of Maryland, Department of Sociology

How Couples Meet

Kelly Raley, PI
University of Texas, Department of Sociology

Parental Co-residence with Adult Children

Judith Seltzer and Suzanne Bianchi, Co-PIs
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Sociology

Knowledge Networks - Source of Survey Panel
KnowledgePanel®

View Methodology & About Knowledge Networks

Counting Couples, Counting Families Conference 
July 19-20, 2011
Natcher Conference Center
Bethesda, MD

Registration for the Counting Couples, Counting Families conference is now closed, as we are filled to capacity -- 7/11/11

This year's research conference Counting Couples, Counting Families responds to the increasing complexities of family structure and living arrangements that raise important new questions for social science research and policy analysis and present significant measurement challenges. Speakers will assess the availability and quality of existing family measures in federal data and provide guidance on how these measures might be modified or expanded in future data collection efforts. 

Click to view the conference description and a list of speakers.

Fathers and Fathering External Grantees Announced
The NCFMR is pleased to announce the five funded proposals of the Fathers and Fathering small grants competition.

Parenting and Coparenting

• Natasha J. Cabrera, PI, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland
• Jay Fagan, Co-I, School of Social Administration, Temple University

Paternal Incarceration and Father Involvement 

• Amanda Geller, PI, School of Social Work and School of Law, Columbia University
• Irwin Garfinkel, Co-I, School of Social Work, Columbia University

Paternal Incarceration and Childhood Wellbeing: Stigma, Separation, or Spuriousness?

• Ryan King, PI, Department of Sociology, University at Albany

The Effect of Relationship Instability and Multi-partner Fertility on Father Well-being

• Laura Tach, PI, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Postdoctoral Scholar, The University of Pennsylvania

Incarcerating Parenthood? Paternal Incarceration and the Parenting Behaviors of Biological Fathers, Social Fathers, and Biological Mothers

• Christopher Wildeman, PI, Department of Sociology, Yale University
• Kristen Turney, Co-I,School of Public Health, University of Michigan

Call for Applications: BGSU Graduate Research Assistantships
Academic Year 2011-2012
Application Deadline: Monday, March 14, 2011
Award Notification: Monday, April 11, 2011

• View Application Instructions

Fathers and Fathering Small Grants Competition Closed 
Small Grants Competition
Award Notification: Friday, April 29, 2011

Williams Distinguished Scholar Gary J. Gates Visits NCFMR
Demographic Perspectives on Same-Sex Couples
September 20, 2010
Bowen-Thompson Student Union (BTSU) 207

A recognized national expert on the geography and demography of the gay and lesbian population, Dr. Gary J. Gates presented Demographic Perspectives on Same-Sex Couples. Gates is co-author of The Gay and Lesbian Atlas and a Williams Distinguished Scholar with the Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, a research center at UCLA.

View Dr. Gates' Webcast at http://dvss.bgsu.edu/public/publicPlayer.php?movie_id=c80728aa924ef2e490a13188e1178518
View Dr. Gates' PowerPoint presentation as a PDF file
View Dr. Gates' CV
View NCFMR Events Page 

Co-sponsored with the Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR).

Original Data Releases
County-Level Marriage & Divorce Data 2000
Pilot Data Collection Familial Responses to Financial Instability

NCFMR sponsors and coordinates original data for use by the scholarly community. Additionally, these original data contribute to innovative research and aid in the development of questionnaires for other data collection efforts.

County-Level Marriage & Divorce Data 2000
Electronic marriage and divorce data presenting geographic variation in the adjusted marriage and divorce rates for over 3,000 counties in the United States are now available on the NCFMR website.  The estimates are from county court record data of numbers of marriages and divorces and U.S. Census data from 2000.

Researchers can use these data to examine geographic concentrations of marriage and divorce. We provide the county-level marriage and divorce data in a spreadsheet, which contains the county-level number of divorces, population, married population, divorce rates, adjusted divorce rates and geocodes (FIPS). These data are from work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SES-1003960 to Jennifer Glass at the University of Iowa with data collection assistance provided by Philip Levchak.

View County-Level Marriage & Divorce Data 2000

Pilot Data Collection Familial Responses to Financial Instability 
The NCFMR, contracting with Knowledge Networks, provided four research groups an opportunity to empirically measure and examine how families respond to financial strain, using a large, web-based household survey. Data collection was completed in September 2009, and the data are now available for public use via the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

You may click on the teal links for an opportunity to view the following four Pilot Data Collection projects.

How the Family Responds to Economic Pressure: A Comparative Study (26541)

Frank Furstenberg, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Anne Gauthier, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
Shelley Pacholok, Unit 6/Sociology, University of British Columbia

The Financial Management Behaviors Scale (26542) 

Jeffrey Dew, Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development, Utah State University
Jing Jian Xiao, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The University of Rhode Island

Doubling Up When Times Are Tough: Obligations to Share a Home in Response to Economic Hardship (26543) 

Judith Seltzer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Suzanne Bianchi, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

"It's All Your Fault": Predictors and Implications of Blame in Couples Under Economic Strain (26544) 

Lisa Diamond, Department of Psychology, University of Utah
Angela Hicks, Department of Psychology, Westminster College

View Pilot Data Collection Conference
Knowledge Networks - Source of Survey Panel
KnowledgePanel®

View Methodology & About Knowledge Networks