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New UAS comprehensive file is out! Now contains the harmonized Health, Retirement, and Health Insurance variables for the fifth wave of the UAS HRS and a subset of variables from the Cognitive Comprehensive File. uasdata.usc.edu/page/Comprehen…

CIPHER 2026 is happening February 25-27! In its eighth installment, the Current Innovations in Probability-Based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) Conference expands its scope to include artificial intelligence (AI) as a new area of focus. dornsife.usc.edu/cesr/cipher-20…

Check out our new blog post @BrookingsInst looking at reasons for mistrust of AI in UAS respondents brookings.edu/articles/why-p… @CESRUSC @USCDornsife

New tool that makes browsing UAS data easy! uasvis.usc.edu check it out!

We are hosting a data user workshop at #PAA2025 in Washington DC. Join us April 10th at 8am! populationassociation.org/paa2025/relate…

For our data users and anyone considering our data! Understanding America Study Newsletter: conta.cc/4gKRaRe

The UAS Cognitive Comprehensive file has been updated with new additions: · Waves 3 of the Stop and Go Switch Task cognitive test and Figure identification cognitive test. · Wave 5 of the financial literacy, understanding probabilities and numeracy tests. uasdata.usc.edu/index.php

crpe.org/what-do-parent… @USCDornsife Perhaps reflecting their own lack of knowledge about GenAI issues, parents express ambivalence and uncertainty about the uses and potential impact of GenAI.

healthpolicy.usc.edu/evidence-base/… @CESRUSC New blogpost using UAS LA Barometer Data on what LA Residents feel we should do about homelessness! #LosAngeles

healthpolicy.usc.edu/evidence-base/… @CESRUSC @USCDornsife More Angelenos than ever are composting! But as you know if you ride, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, public transit ridership remains depressed and car culture prevails.

How do we ask people their feelings about climate change? healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/if-you…

Well done Wandi Bruine de Bruin! @CESRUSC Data in action!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… new paper looking at cognition and Covid in the UAS @CESRUSC

New publication using UAS looking at Caregiver Burden jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Good morning #columbus last chance to go home with a fun red water bottle or an engaging blue slinky from @g2gaging #paa2024 Find us in the corner booths! @CESRUSC

New @theNASEM report containing UAS as a case study in Chapter 5: Data Solutions, Methods, and Options nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27333/… @USCDornsife

healthpolicy.usc.edu/evidence-base/… Kids and their Covid experience; a new blog post using UAS data! @CESRUSC @USCRossier

Only a few more days left to submit your abstracts for our March conference in DC

prevention.com/health/a451479…. are we done with vaccine hesitancy?

washingtonpost.com/business/2023/… This article mentions the Atlanta Fed, who has been tracking consumer preferences in payment choices annually in the Understanding America Study. @USCDornsife @CESRUSC @AtlantaFed