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Item 2004 Minnesota State Survey. Results and Technical Report.(Minnesota Center for Survey Research (MCSR), 2004) Minnesota Center for Survey ResearchItem 2005 Minnesota State Survey--Part I: Results and Technical Report.(Minnesota Center for Survey Research (MCSR), 2005) Minnesota Center for Survey ResearchItem 2005 Minnesota State Survey--Part II: Results and Technical Report.(Minnesota Center for Survey Research (MCSR), 2005) Minnesota Center for Survey ResearchItem 2006 Twin Cities Area Survey: Results and Technical Report.(Minnesota Center for Survey Research (MCSR), 2006) Minnesota Center for Survey ResearchItem 2007 Twin Cities Area Survey: Results and Technical Report.(Minnesota Center for Survey Research (MCSR), 2007) Minnesota Center for Survey ResearchItem Analyzing Demographics: Assessing Library Use Across the Institution(2013-01-24) Nackerud, Shane; Fransen, Jan; Peterson, Kate; Mastel, KristenIn Fall 2011, staff at the University of Minnesota Libraries-Twin Cities undertook a project to measure how often, and in what ways, students used the Libraries' services. Partnering with the University's Office of Institutional Research, the team investigated ways to match library service usage to individual accounts while retaining patron privacy to determine who was – and was not – using the library. With complete data sets, the group was able to determine overall usage rates for undergraduate and graduate students and compare how students in different colleges used library services. This article discusses data gathering techniques, analysis, and initial findings.Item Cleveland Neighborhood Revitalization Program Evaluation.(2001) Brock, Amy and Taimur Malik.Item Community Housing Review: Greater Longfellow Community 2002.(2003) Sjogren, MerrieItem Demographics and Conflict(2016) Andregg, Michael M.Demographics and Conflict Introduction to an Ancient Paradigm: population growth, environmental degradation, rising death rates and conflicts, exodus, war or genocide. People have been killing each other since before the beginning of written history, as recorded by the broken bones of people massacred long before writing was invented. One of the quiet reasons for the really large scale killings called genocides and wars is demographics, the statistics of birth rates, death rates, growth rates and migrations into or out of territories. This dimension is under-covered by those who focus on the statements or acts of key leaders. Commanders of war typically describe their reasons in political, religious or military terms, not demographics. But they were also often driven by forces they barely understood and could not control. The Mayan Empire probably fell that way. Easter Island certainly did. And the deserts of North Africa are filled with ruins from cities and empires that thrived … before the forests and farmable land turned into desert. The Kenyans have a saying: “First came forests, then man, then the deserts.” Therefore this chapter will show how simple births, deaths and migrations lead to an iron law of biology. This law observes that all living populations eventually achieve equilibrium with their environment, which means birth rates equal death rates and the population neither grows nor declines, or they die. Populations that try to grow forever become extinct or suffer catastrophic death rates. The modern case of Syria disintegrating after 2010 will be considered in some detail, because it also shows how global factors like climate change can trigger chaos. Syria’s population growth rate in 2011 was 2.4% per year, but when half its population was displaced by civil wars and about 6 million fled, its growth rate became sharply negative. At least 250,000 people died by violence alone. This will be followed by a short section on “Human Nature, Nurture, Free Will and War” because that topic has generated much commentary over centuries, with large implications if one accepts the simplistic conclusions that people are either born “innately” warlike, or rather “innately” social and cooperative. Truth is that people can be either one or the other depending on circumstances, and that much neglected factor “free will” or personal decisions. Finally we close with how a few more complicated demographics like “pyramidal” vs. “columnar” age distributions, and distorted sex ratios may influence the probability of organized armed conflict on earth today and in the future.Item The Developing Global Crisis: What Security Practitioners and Policy Makers Need to Know(2016) Andregg, Michael M.The Developing Global Crisis: What Security Practitioners and Policy Makers Need to Know Abstract (d7, for “Global Security and Intelligence Studies” of American Military University.) General Michael Flynn asks why we don’t win wars anymore. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claims we cannot fix the problems in the Middle East where so many of our troops and related forces have been deployed for so long. This essay attempts to explain why. We have been addressing mainly symptoms instead of causes, and since the causes continue, the wars don’t stop. The “Developing Global Crisis” involves at least six factors that are difficult for anyone to deal with. Each has military consequences, but few respond well to military force. The result is hundreds of millions of poorly educated teen aged males maturing into desperate circumstances of failed or failing states where they encounter demagogues and WMDs instead of opportunities. The factors I allude to include: 1) population growth and population pressure (not the same things) , 2) corruptions of governance that prevent solutions, 3) growing income inequalities within and between nations, 4) militant religion(s), 5) rising authoritarianism in politics worldwide, and 6) global warming. Bombing global warming cools nothing and brings no rain, but global warming can definitely contribute to the collapse of states like Syria, which then export millions of their desperate people into neighbors like Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey that are in turn destabilized to some degree. Even Europe feels the stress of a million sudden immigrants, so we will consider the case of Syria in particular. But what is happening there is happening in far too many other desert states today. Keywords: demographics, failed states, terrorism, intelligence, corruptionItem Essays on Flows of Capital and Labor Across Countries(2016-09) Rodriguez Garcia, Maria JoseMy dissertation consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I summarize the literature on international labor flows and on international capital flows, investment, and demographic transitions. I start with a historical recount of seminal papers on international labor and capital flows. I then focus on high-income, high-skilled labor flows of free mobility areas and point to where traditional migration models fail to explain these flows, and on the investment and the demographic transition of Latin America which has not been systematically studied. In the next chapters of this dissertation, I address these two issues. The second chapter of my dissertation, joint work with Daniela Viana Costa, studies labor flows of workers with similar skill-level and across countries with similar income. This chapter revisits empirical evidence on migration within the European Union-15, disaggregated by occupation. We find that most workers are highly educated and that they move to countries where their type (occupation and education level) is relatively abundant among natives. This is at odds with traditional models of migration. We develop a model with external economies of scale that generates an agglomeration force in high-educated occupations. Our main result is that a country that is relatively abundant in highly educated labor force will attract foreign labor of the same type. We argue this model is more suitable to analyzing migration flows between countries of similar income level. The third chapter of my dissertation studies the behavior of investment during demographic transitions. In particular, I focus on the period of time where the working age to population ratio reaches its maximum, namely the demographic window. I document that in Europe, Asia, and Oceania investment rates are higher 15 years before and during the window than in other periods of time, whereas in Latin America they are lower. To understand the relation between investment and a demographic window, I build an overlapping generations model with demographic change and variable degree of financial openness. Within this framework, I conduct several exercises and counterfactuals involving potential drivers of the investment behavior. I find that the demographic behavior in conjunction with the region-specific financial openness, can explain the main pattern of investment for the demographic window in Latin America vis-a-vis Europe, Asia and Oceania.Item Intelligence and Migration: Cases from North America, for Need to Know 6 in Sweden(Polish Institute for National Remembrance, sponsor of the annual "Need to Know" conferences on intelligence history, 2016-11-17) Andregg, Michael M.The USA and Canada receive migrants from every part of the world. Many are legal immigrants and some are illegal or undocumented immigrants (about 11 million in the USA of a population of about 324 million, or ~ 3.4% of the total US population in 2016). Syrians, North Africans, Afghans and Iraqi refugees are the biggest immigration demographics in Europe and each occur here but in North America other ethnicities predominate, especially Latin Americans and Asians. 21st century terrorism has increased concerns about immigrants, especially undocumented or illegal immigrants. There is a long history of such concerns in North America beginning with Native American fears of the tidal wave of Europeans entering after 1492. What happened to them is one lesson security professionals must consider. The natives were nearly wiped out over a period of centuries, often by direct aggression, but more by disease and exile to harsh and barren lands. That lesson is that if large numbers of immigrants with aggressive birth rates come, they can take over entire continents in just a few centuries. But our vigorous and interesting continent has also been “built by immigrants” who remain very important to national economies today. Immigrant populations of special interest to modern US intelligence services include: Cubans (who enjoy a special immigration status and intelligence significance). Somalians (targeted for recruitment for foreign wars by Al Shabaab and ISIS). Colombians (and other South and Central Americans, of special interest in drug wars). Mexicans (the same except that Mexicans and their descendants are also very involved in domestic US agriculture, construction, health care, and every job description). Chinese (of special national security concern for economic and technical espionage). Poles, Romanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Slovenes, Czech’s, and all Eastern European ethnicities (of special relevance during the ‘Cold War,’ now warming up again). We will survey these ethnic groups with respect to three broader themes: A. National security concerns like counterterrorism and counter proliferation (of WMD). B. The drug wars. C. Economic espionage and cybersecurity concerns (related, but also quite different).Item Liberty Plaza, Inc. Residents' Needs Survey Report.(2001) Mendez, MarianalletItem Maintaining and Developing Rental Housing in Hamline-Midway.(2001) Nuhodzic, TarikItem Mapping Demographic Trends for School Enrollment Projection in the Independent School District 709 (Duluth, MN).(Duluth, MN: Center for Community and Regional Research, University of Minnesota at Duluth., 2005) Kuhlke, Olaf; Holbrook, Beth; Pust, JoshuaReports on a mapping project directed at providing the Independent School District 709 of Duluth, Minnesota, with accurate maps depicting demographic trends in school attendance areas, as well as census blocks and tracks. It was conceptualized as a comprehensive planning tool for the school district, the school board, community members, and concerned parents, and provides information about demographic trends from the year 2000 to 2014. The demographic analysis was centered on mapping the number of children between the ages of 5 and 17 for each census block, track, and school attendance area in Duluth. In addition, it provides data about the current population over the age of 60, and thus enables planners to detect areas with the highest upcoming turnover in the future housing market.Item Minneapolis Black Population 1910(2020) Mills, Marguerite; Mapping Prejudice ProjectThe location of Black residents in Minneapolis based on the enumeration districts used in the 1910 federal census.Item Minneapolis Black Population 1920(2020) Mills, Marguerite; Mapping Prejudice ProjectThe location of Black residents in Minneapolis based on the enumeration districts used in the 1920 federal census.Item Minneapolis Black Population 1930(2020) Mills, Marguerite; Mapping Prejudice ProjectThe location of Black residents in Minneapolis based on the enumeration districts used in the 1930 federal census.Item Minneapolis Black Population 1940(2020) Mills, Marguerite; Mapping Prejudice ProjectThe location of Black residents in Minneapolis based on the enumeration districts used in the 1940 federal census.Item Park Point Art Fair: 2015 Attendee Profile(University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2015-10-30) Qian, XinyiAt the invitation of the Park Point Art Fair, the University of Minnesota Tourism Center (UMTC) profiled its 2015 attendees. The purpose of the profile was to better understand attendee characteristics, to assist marketing decisions, and to enhance the event itself. As such, several attendee characteristics were of interest, including demographics, information sources attendees used to learn of the Art Fair, most enjoyable attributes of the Art Fair, main reason to attend the Art Fair, expenditures related to the Art Fair, and modes of transportation.