How homes are heated shapes household budgets and impacts the environment. Like much of New England, Connecticut remains unusually reliant on oil for heating homes, a legacy shaped by cold winters, older housing stock, and historically limited gas pipeline infrastructure. That picture, however, is

In response to the federal data system going black in January of this year, we at CTData have been partnering with local organizations to bring people together across the state to share information about what we know about changes to federal and state data, and also to help folks connect locally around data and strategies they can use to best serve their region. On October 30, 2025, we partnered with Norwalk ACTS to bring this event to Norwalk. This post includes highlights from this session, but can’t do justice to the excellent presentations and conversations. Read this post to find many ways you can stay informed and take action!

Have you ever wanted to link external city-level data to CPS respondents but were stymied by the city coding system used by the CPS? With the release of two new variables (PLACECENSUS and PLACEFIPS), IPUMS CPS has simplified the task of making such linkages. The CPS identifies a limited number of sub-state geographic units (e.g., cities, counties) because of the complex assignment of CPS geographic identifiers (see working paper) and required minimum population thresholds. An additional layer of complexity is a custom coding scheme for central/principal cities (INDIVIDCC) that is unique to the CPS and, therefore, unfamiliar to most data users. IPUMS CPS has addressed this issue through the creation of two new variables – PLACECENSUS and PLACEFIPS – which provide standard codes for identifying central cities. These new variables will dramatically simplify the process of using IPUMS CPS to study specific cities, and will be particularly beneficial to those who want to augment the CPS data with city-level characteristics.

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Dear colleagues, It is an honor to welcome you to the PSC newsletter as I start my second term serving the Center. I am grateful for the opportunity to celebrate all the energy and accomplishments happening here and to highlight new and existing resources and ways to get involved. Our trainee bay in ISR 2080 has been reconfigured for more community use and we’d love you to touch down at the bigger work table and spaces for everyone (ask Miriam Rahl for the keypad code to 2080!). We are starting the renewal applications for the PSC training program and the PDHP Center Grant (due in spring/summer 2026), so I will be reaching out to many of you and drawing on your tremendous work that went into PSC’s situational review last year as we chart our course and vision. We are all managing unprecedented times as population scientists and as people. I am eager to trade information, work on a game plan in times of uncertainty, or collaborate on new strategies to handle these times. Please be in touch, we’re here for you!

Email from Texas Demographic Center       MONTHLY DATA UPDATE     Texas Demographic Center recently released its updated county-level population projections. The data provides detailed projections of

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State Demography Office Newsletter, November 2025 State Demography Office Newsletter, November 2025 43rd Annual State Demography Summit Registration Closes October 31 2026 Census Test: Job opportunities in Colorado Springs 43rd Annual State Demography Summit Registration Closes October 31 The State Demography Summit is a one-day conference that offers attendees the opportunity to learn about the most current population and economic estimates and forecasts for the state, its regions, counties, and municipalities. Registration closes on Friday, October 31. Don't miss your chance to learn about changes to Colorado's population. This year’s summit will occur on Friday, November 7, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada, CO 80003 This year’s Summit will feature presentations on: Population Estimates for 2024: Births, deaths, and migration are the components of population change, but learn how revisions to migration data have impacted the county estimates, and how the refinement of methodology assumptions affected the municipal estimates. Population Forecasts: Over the next ten years, Colorado's population will continue to grow, age, and diversify. Join us as we walk through the changes and explore the impacts of slowing growth and a changing age distribution on long-term household and labor force growth. Changes in U.S. Census Estimates and Methodology to estimate Fertility and Migration. State and Regional Economic Trends: National and state trends, where is job growth expected in the state, and what is influencing regional changes? Preparing for Census 2030: Census 2026 test and the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA). New web tools and applications. Analysis of Colorado's current housing shortfall. New Housing-Related data and products: Developing a forecast of households by Area Median Income and a statewide Housing Needs Assessment. A panel discussion on Local Government Housing Needs Assessments featuring speakers from DOLA’s Community Development Office, DRCOG, Summit County Housing Department, and the Cortez, Colorado Community and Economic Development Department Office. Registration Costs Registration for this year's summit is $60 per person for in-person registration. $30 per person for live stream registration. State of Colorado Employees are eligible for complimentary registration to the live stream. Changes to Continuing Education (CE) credits Six hours of continuing education (CE) credits are available to Appraisers or Real Estate Brokers attending the Summit in person. Why the change to in-person only CE credits? The Colorado Division of Real Estate does not issue CE credits for hybrid meetings. SDO is offering CE credits only for in-person attendance due to resource limitations and requirements for monitoring online attendance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact the Division of Real Estate if you have any questions about this policy. Register for the Summit by clicking the button below. 2026 Census Test: Job opportunities in Colorado Springs The Census Bureau is conducting a test of its data collection procedures for the 2030 Census in 2026. One of the test sites is located in Colorado Springs. The census test will investigate data collection procedures to help ensure a complete count of the population during the 2030 Census. The Census Bureau is recruiting employees from the Colorado Springs area to help conduct the test. 2026 Census Test employees serve an important role in fulfilling the Census Bureau’s mission to serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy. As a member of our team, you will: Connect with members of local communities. Collect data. Help the Census Bureau improve processes and procedures for the next U.S. Census in 2030. 2030 Census results will be used to determine your representation in Congress, and they help inform how trillions of dollars are distributed for hospitals, schools, roads, and more. To learn more about the Census Test and to apply, please click on the buttons below.

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The Oregon Population Forecast Program (OPFP) annually produces coordinated UGB and county forecasts for one region of the state. In December 2025, the Population Research Center will host the first of two public meetings leading up to the new population forecasts for Region 1 (Curry, Coos, Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, Deschutes, Jefferson, Lake, Crook, Harney Counties). We would like to know if there are preferred dates for this meeting so that we can have participation as high as possible. Thanks for your response! https://shorturl.at/kNnJG At this Preliminary meeting, we will review the forecast program methodology, and results for state and counties. UGB-level results will be presented at the second meeting, in Spring 2026 (date and locations TBD). Oregon Population Forecast Program - Scheduling Portland State University Population Research Center PO Box 751 Portland OR 97207 (503) 725-3922 askprc@pdx.edu (mailto:askprc@pdx.edu) Portland State University Mail Code PRC PO Box 751 | Portland, OR 97207-0751 United States This email was sent to . To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add us to your address book or safe list. manage your preferences (#) opt out (#) using TrueRemove(r). Got this as a forward? Sign up (https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1761338/1736732.1032680476/) to receive our future emails.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr deemed declining U.S. fertility rates a "national security threat," saying birth rates are not high enough to stabilize the population.

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The Department of Commerce will submit the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on November 4, 2024, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce. Title: Group Quarters Advance Contact. OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX. Form Number(s): Group Quarters Advance Contact Instrument—D6-QFE-GA. Type of Request: Regular submission. This is a new information collection. Number of Respondents: 600. Average Hours per Response: 15 minutes. Burden Hours: 150. Needs and Uses: During the years preceding the 2030 Census, the Census Bureau will pursue its commitment to developing a well-managed, cost-effective, high quality decennial census. The Census Bureau will streamline data collection processes and implement new and improved methods to count the U.S. population for the 2030 Census. This includes improved methods for counting individuals residing in Group Quarters (GQs). A GQ is a place that is designed to house a group of people who typically are nonrelatives and have similar objectives, needs, or restrictions. These places provide care or services for the occupants (such as supervision, health care, or other types of assistance) and/or have certain communal facilities that are shared by the occupants (such as communal bathrooms or kitchens). GQs include a range of unconventional household compositions or locations such as college/university student housing, residential treatment centers, nursing/skilled nursing facilities, group homes, correctional facilities, military barracks, and workers' dormitories. GQ administrators play a vital role in data collection during Group Quarters Advance Contact (GQAC). They provide critical updates about the facility and residents. The 2026 Census Test GQAC will be fielded to 600 GQ facilities across two regional census areas that encompasses six test sites in Western Texas; Tribal Lands within Arizona; Colorado Springs, CO; Western North Carolina; Spartanburg, SC; and Huntsville, AL. These locations were chosen because they possess particular characteristics that support the Census Bureau's focus on several enhancement areas for the broader 2026 Census Test and the 2030 Census, including: making it easier for people to respond on their own online, by phone, or by mail; improving in-person household data collection; improving methods for counting people living in GQs; enhancing the infrastructure that supports census operations; and processing data concurrently with data collection. The enhancement of GQAC data collection falls solely under the enhancement area on improving methods for counting people living in GQs. It will meet that goal by making it easier for GQ administrators to provide information about the GQ, allowing them to select a method of enumeration for the residents of the GQ, and enhancing the infrastructure that supports census operations. The GQAC data collection period is February 2026 through March 2026. The 2026 Census Test GQAC will utilize the GQ Contact Frame Maintenance system that will include the GQ facility name (linked to the possible GQs), facility address, name of GQ administrator/primary and secondary points of contact, phone number of contact person(s), and email address of the contact person(s). During the 2020 Census, GQAC was conducted with the GQ administrator by telephone (In-Office GQAC) or a personal visit (In-Field GQAC). For the 2026 Census Test, advance contact information will also be collected by phone or by in-person visit(s). The 2026 Census Test GQAC will enable the Census Bureau to contact the GQ administrators to collect pertinent information about the GQs such as: GQ type, Name, phone number and email of the contact person, Verification/updates to the GQ address the Census Bureau has in their inventory, Expected population for the GQ on Census Day, April 1, 2026, Desired method of enumeration for their residents, and Depending on the enumeration method selected, the date and time for an appointment. During In-Office GQAC, office clerks will call the GQ administrator (using the phone number on file for the case or researching it using the internet) and conduct interviews while electronically collecting responses and making entries into an instrument to verify and/or update the GQ information and documenting their preferred enumeration method in preparation for conducting the upcoming enumeration. The In-Field GQAC operation will include all unresolved cases from the In-Office GQAC. Field staff will work with GQs for which pre-enumeration information such as contact information was not obtained. Field staff will visit each identified GQ and conduct an in-person interview with the GQ contact person using an electronic device to capture the same information collected during In-Office GQAC. During the 2020 Census and previous decennial censuses, in-field GQAC was conducted by field staff visiting each identified GQ and collecting response data on a paper questionnaire. The content of the GQAC reflects topics that are required by the GQAC operation to enable the Group Quarters Enumeration (GQE) in the larger 2026 Census Test, which in turn will inform improvements for the 2030 Census. ( printed page 48445) Since the 60-day Federal Register Notice (FRN) on this proposed collection was published, the Census Bureau needed to make a number of changes to GQAC. The Census Bureau descoped the web-based GQAC for GQ administrators from the 2026 Census Test. The Census Bureau no longer plans to allow GQ administrators to log into a secure web-based GQAC instrument to review, verify, and if needed, update the GQ information, or select a method of data collection in preparation for conducting the upcoming enumeration operations. Instead, Census Bureau office clerks will use the same platform that had been planned for GQ administrators to collect this information. Emails to GQ administrators for web-based GQAC that were mentioned in the 60-day FRN will no longer be sent. Also descoped were plans to implement a process to virtually complete the Special Sworn Status form for GQ administrators who select the web-based GQAC. The system to track/maintain completed Special Sworn Status forms (BC-1759) collected during the American Community Survey and other Census Bureau web-based surveys is still in progress because it may be needed during GQE. The proposed annual burden hours have decreased from the 217 hours as the Census Bureau estimated in the 60-dayFederal Register Notice for this information collection to 150 hours. The number of respondents grew from 434 in the 60-day Federal Register notice to 600, but the average time per response was reduced from 30 minutes to 15 minutes when the calling script was updated based on the final GQAC specification following the submission of the 60-day FRN. The form number(s) indicated on the 60-dayFederal Register notice listed the numbers for the envelopes, letters, and the confidentiality notice. This 30-day Federal Register notice removes those numbers, and instead now only lists the form number for the collection instrument. Other respondent materials will be available to the public on RegInfo.gov. (See instructions below.) Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations; Not-for-profit institutions. Frequency: One-time (February-March 2026). Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory. Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 141 and 193. This information collection request may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of Commerce collections currently under review by OMB. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/​public/​do/​PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the search function and entering the title of the collection.