Minnesota Population Center
The Minnesota Population Center is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center at the University of Minnesota. MPC was established in 2000, absorbing two earlier population research organizations. The primary goals of the center are to foster large-scale cross-disciplinary research collaborations and to provide shared infrastructure for demographic research.
The center now has 100 faculty affiliates from 10 University of Minnesota Colleges, over 50 graduate student affiliates and 120 administrative and research staff.
Overview
The primary activity of MPC is demographic research; work at the center is divided into eight major themes:- Large-scale demographic data infrastructure
- Work, family, and time-use
- Historical demography
- Education, labor, and the life-course
- Healthcare access and health disparities
- Census and survey methodology
- Unions and sexuality
- Population and environment