In early August 2011, the University Center for Social & Urban Research moved office locations on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh.  Our new address is 3343 Forbes Ave.  We are located approximately half a mile down the road from our previous location and directly across from Magee Womens Hospital.  This move was necessary in order to make room for a new freshman residence hall.  Click here for our contact information with map links.    more ...

• Download the first Pittsburgh Economic Quarterly (PEQ) of 2012!
  • Projecting the Impact of Demographic Change in Pittsburgh´s Labor Force
  • Who Moves to Lawrenceville and Why?
  • UCSUR´s Quality of Life Survey
  • City of Pittsburgh Property Assessment Impacts

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• Monday, April 16, 2012:  Experts: No right choice for women about work, being at home with kids
  By Jill King Greenwood, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
  • Regional Economist Chris Briem provides insight into the women workforce in Pittsburgh.
  • "Women in Pittsburgh make up more than half of the region´s work force, up from about 37 percent in 1980."

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• Thursday, April 12, 2012:  Region may have found cure for decades-long ´brain drain´
  By Jill King Greenwood, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
  • Regional Economist Chris Briem provides insight on the 1980s out-migration from Pittsburgh.
  • "Western Pennsylvania began suffering an ´inordinate´ job and population decline when the domestic steel industry began to suffer in the 1980s."

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• Sunday, April 8, 2012:  Western Pennsylvania´s census gain driven by jobs
  By Brian Bowling, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
  • Chris Briem is quoted regarding migration into Allegheny County.
  • "I don´t think there has been any sustained migration into Allegheny since the 1920s?"

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• Tuesday, April 3, 2012:  Pittsburgh Region Interviews
  • TAE Radio  Interview with The American Entrepreneur, Ron Morris - Part II
    - Doug talks with Ron about the, Pittsburgh Today and Tomorrow Report
  • TAE Radio  Interview with The American Entrepreneur, Ron Morris - Part I
    - Doug talks with Ron about, "Metrics that must be considered when assessing the socioeconomic health of a city."
  • 90.5 Essential Public Radio:  Pittsburgh and the Great Recession
    - Douglas Heuck talks about, "How the Pittsburgh region compares to other parts of the country in areas such as the arts, demographics, and the economy."

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• Thursday, March 22, 2012:  New Guide Outlines 8-Steps to Fix the Housing Market
  By Jenelle Pifer, 90.5 Essential Public Radio
  • Sabina Deitrick, Program Director of the Urban & Regional Analysis Program, provides insight regarding local foreclosure data.
  • "We have almost 140,000 families and households of extremely and very low income folks and finding affordable housing is oftentimes difficult for them."

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• Sunday, March 18, 2012:  The state is shortsighted if it reduces its already meager support for higher education
  By Christopher Briem, Special to the Post-Gazette
  • "Faced with ever-mounting financial cuts emanating from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania´s public institutions of higher education are staring at stark choices. If the trend continues, Pennsylvania and its economy will be losers in the long run."

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• Tuesday, March 6, 2012:  Pittsburgh rates in top 10 for comeback
  By Bob Bauder, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
  • Chris Briem "sounds a note of caution" regarding Pittsburgh as a top 10 city.

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• Wednesday, February 29, 2012:  City of Pittsburgh Neighborhood Profiles - American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates Update for 2006-2010
  
  • This is the 2nd report UCSUR has produced on City of Pittsburgh neighborhoods using data from the American Community Survey program. Previously UCSUR compiled neighborhood profiles based on the 2005-2009 ACS data distributed by the Census Bureau. Neighborhood level analysis requires data available at the census tract and census block group level. Only the ACS 5-year estimates distributes data at these levels of geography.

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• Sunday, February 26, 2012:  Reputations for research help buoy Western Pennsylvania colleges
  By Debra Erdley, Pittsburgh Tribune Review
  • Economist Chris Briem is quoted regarding the economic impact of colleges and universities.

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• Monday, February 20, 2012:  The Life Course, Independence & Late-Life Depression
  Interview by Lonnie Stoltzfoos
  • Center Director Richard Schulz is interviewed for Psychiatry Weekly, a weekly hospital placed news and information service.
  • "Treatment of depression in late life can be particularly vexing because of the other inevitable life changes that occur during those years - bereavement, changing health or illness, and functional disability. Dr. Richard Schulz has conducted extensive research on how late-life disease and depression affect patients and their loved ones, and how people adapt to the changes that can occur in later years."

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• February 2012:  PittsburghToday.org 2012 Annual Report
  
  • 90.5 Essential Public Radio:  Pittsburgh Region Shines in Annual Report
    - "When the benchmarking project began in 1995, Director Douglas Heuck said Pittsburgh fared poorly in many categories, but now it is number one in job growth with a relatively strong, diversified economy."
    
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:  Pittsburgh Today´ study: Region rates well in job creation, economy
    - "A new report card for Pittsburgh shows that more people are moving to this area than leaving and that the region´s increasingly diversified economy is generating jobs in education, financial services, energy and medicine."
    - "It´s a total change for our area," said Douglas Heuck, director of Pittsburgh Today."
  • Pittsburgh Tribune Review:  Job growth, dollar value, culture attract workers to Pittsburgh
    - "When you have a regional economy with an unemployment rate lower than the national average, that becomes attractive," said Douglas Heuck, director of Pittsburgh Today´s Regional Indicators. "People look at Pittsburgh and think, ´Hey, I can get a job there.´"

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• Wednesday January 25, 2012:  The Survey Resarch Program now incorporates cell phone sampling into our Random Digit Dial surveys!
  
  • According to the most recent estimates, approximately 30% of U.S. households are cell-phone only
  • In addition, another 10-20% reports receiving most or all of their calls on their cell phone even though they still have a landline
  • This means that nearly half of all U.S. adults are reachable primarily by cell phone

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• August 22, 2011:  "Black Papers on African American Health"
  
  • The University Center for Social and Urban Research at the University of Pittsburgh, in partnership with the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the Allegheny County Health Department, is pleased to publish the second volume of what has come to be known as Pittsburgh´s "Black Papers" - a series of reports documenting the health status of African Americans and whites in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.  Volume one, entitled Black Papers on African American Health in Allegheny County, was published in September 2002.
  • The new volume, Allegheny County Population Health in Black and White, documents the vast differences that exist in the incidence, prevalence, and treatment of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS, among others.  While health conditions have improved in many ways for the population in Allegheny County since publication of Volume one, disparities in health and health care remain widespread.
  • Volume two contains introductory statements by Esther Bush, Thomas Starzl, and Ken Thompson and an Executive Summary by Jeannette South-Paul.  The report also contains an overview to black-white health in the county by Tony Robins and eight chapters on specific health disparities topics.  The report should prove to be a resource for the community, educators, and researchers for many years to come.

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University of Pittsburgh
University Center for Social & Urban Research
3343 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

• Administration
  Richard Schulz, PhD
  Phone: 412-624-5442,   email
• Survey Research Program (SRP)
  Scott R. Beach, PhD
  Phone: 412-624-7785,   email
• Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP)
  Donald Musa, DrPh
  Phone: 412-624-3790
  Laurel Person Mecca, MA
  Phone: 412-624-1613,   email
• Urban and Regional Analysis
  Sabina R. Deitrick, PhD
  Phone: 412-624-3092,   email
• Gerontology
  Richard Schulz, PhD
  Phone: 412-624-5442,   email
• GIS / Visual Analytics
  Ken Sochats, PhD
  Phone: 412-624-9416,   email
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  Sally Newman, PhD
  Phone: 412-624-7155,   email
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  James R. Lefcakis, MS
  Phone: 412-624-3780,   email

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