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Our Focus Areas

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### Aging

Aging populations present a growing challenge for governments, families, and health service providers.

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### Children, Youth, and Families

Understanding the conditions and needs of children and youth in the United States and across the world is critical to ensuring healthy and productive futures for them and society.

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### U.S. Census and the American Community Survey

Accessing and understanding how to use census data are vital to policymaking and planning that support communities across the United States.

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### World and U.S. Population Trends

Changes in a population’s size, growth rate, and composition can have profound effects on society, the economy, and individual health and well-being.

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### Featured Story

More Than a Feeling: How Social Connection Protects Health in Later Life

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Older adults’ social ties are more important for physical and mental health than previously thought, new research shows.

[Read the Publication](https://www.prb.org/resources/todays-research-on-aging-44-more-than-a-feeling-how-social-connection-protects-health-in-later-life/)

Featured Projects

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### [Counting Women’s Work](https://www.prb.org/projects/counting-womens-work/)

With support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, PRB is working to expand local analysis of women’s unpaid care work and stakeholder engagement in African countries.

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

### [State of Access: Assessing Contraceptive Policy Environments in Each U.S. State](https://www.prb.org/projects/state-of-access-assessing-contraceptive-equity-state-by-state/)

PRB is assessing the favorability of the policy environment for contraceptive access nationally and within each U.S. state so that state policies and programming can be easily interpreted and compared.

Arnold Ventures

### [KIDS COUNT](https://www.prb.org/projects/kids-count/)

PRB analyzes data and provides expertise to the Annie E. Casey Foundation to track the status of children’s well-being in the United States, including data presented in the KIDS COUNT Data Book and the KIDS COUNT Data Center.

Annie E. Casey Foundation

### [Promoting Evidence on Early Childhood Development in East and Southern Africa](https://www.prb.org/projects/promoting-evidence-on-early-childhood-development-in-east-and-southern-africa/)

PRB is partnering with the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to promote evidence on ECD in ESA to improve the lives of young children ages 0-3 in Kenya, Mozambique, and Tanzania. 

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

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