is an archive of census-based datasets and teaching modules designed to provide educators with resources to integrate data analysis exercises into their curricula.
displays U.S. demographic trends through eye-catching maps, graphics, and exportable trend data.
is a portal of teaching and learning resources for infusing quantitative literacy into the social science curriculum.
Director: William Frey
William H. Frey is a Ph.D. demographer and sociologist specializing in U.S. demographics. He is currently a Senior Fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and Research Professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Dr. Frey received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1974. In 1980-81 he was a Visiting Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria); in 1988 the Andrew W. Mellon Research Scholar at the Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC; and in 1995, Hewlett Visiting Scholar at Child Trends in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Frey has written widely on issues relating to migration, population redistribution, and the demography of metropolitan areas. He has authored well over 100 publications and several books including Regional and Metropolitan Growth and Decline in the US (Russell Sage, 1988, with Alden Speare, Jr); and America By the Numbers: A Fieldguide to the US Population (The New Press, 2001 with Bill Abresch and Jonathan Yeasting). At Michigan he has directed projects with the National Science Foundation, NICHD Center for Population Research, NIA, and several foundations. He has contributed to the 1995 President's National Urban Policy Report, to HUD's State of the Cities 2000 report, to the Russell Sage Foundation's Census research series in 1980 and 1990, and has been consultant to the US Census Bureau on migration research and publications. He served as contributing editor to American Demographics magazine.
Manager: John Paul DeWitt
JP DeWitt came to SSDAN in 2001 and has extensive experience spotting and writing about census trends. He is a co-author of The Allyn and Bacon Social Atlas of the United States (2008) and the Census Bureau publication, A Compass for Understanding and Using American Community Survey Data: What the Media Needs to Know.
Specialists:
Cathy Sun
Coordinators:
Clark Frye
Associates:
David Catalan
Julia Feldman
Nick Haas
Brittany Louth
Programmers and Web Design:
Corinne Adams
Rishu Arora
Aravindh Baskaran
Mukul Bisht
Alan Duanmu
