# Michigan Research Infrastructure for Population Sciences

> **NIH NIH P2C** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2021 · $578,815

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract – Michigan Research Infrastructure for Population Sciences
This application requests five years of research infrastructure support for the University of Michigan's
Population Studies Center (PSC). Since its establishment in 1961, the focus of PSC's approach has been
a commitment to primary data collection to advance population science. The overarching theme of this
Center is to build on this history by stimulating and supporting collaborative projects that design, create,
and use new data to advance population science. Our faculty already collaborate on creating some of the
longest-running and most widely used studies in population dynamics research—such as the Panel Study
of Income Dynamics (PSID), the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Monitoring the Future (MTF),
and the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS). Together, PSID, NSFG, and CVFS—all supported by
NICHD's Population Dynamics Branch (PDB)—have produced more than 5,150 peer-reviewed publica-
tions, 299,000 citations, and thousands of data users. These highly significant projects also play a critical
role as sources of cohesion and engines of collaboration within PSC and they have helped spawn a new
generation of innovative projects focused on PDB priorities, including the Relationship Dynamics and So-
cial Life (RDSL) study, the Longitudinal Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database (LIFE-M), and
the Detroit Metropolitan Area Communities Study (DMACS). Our objective in this application is to use
P2C resources to stimulate and support new research on significant and emergent questions in popula-
tion science, the use of innovative approaches to data collection and analysis, and the development of a
new generation of population scientists within this productive environment, equipped with the tools to en-
gage successfully in PDB research priorities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10226828
- **Project number:** 5P2CHD041028-20
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Sarah A. Burgard
- **Activity code:** P2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $578,815
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2001-08-21 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10226828

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10226828, Michigan Research Infrastructure for Population Sciences (5P2CHD041028-20). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10226828. Licensed CC0.

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