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About the Institute The Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research is a comprehensive institute for the examination of the determinants and consequences of demographic change. It is comprised of three components, including the Texas State Data Center, a state entity, which distributes demographic, economic, and related data and information to private and public sector clients in Texas and other parts of the nation. The Texas State Data Center directly serves more than 50,000 clients per year through a network of 45 affiliated agencies and provides services to an additional 4,500 clients per day who download more than two gigabytes of data each day from its website. The Institute is also the site of the Office of the State Demographer. This office completes population estimates for all places, counties, and the State of Texas including annual and biennial projections of the population by age, sex, and race/ethnicity. These are used by the Texas Legislature, state agencies in Texas, and numerous other governmental and private sector concerns to plan for personnel, facility, and fiscal requirements. The Institute is also a major center for policy and business research in Texas. Its well known and highly regarded Texas Challenge and New Texas Challenge documents have been widely used as major sources of information in setting state policies in education, health and human services, and numerous other areas. It also performs contracted research in such areas as market area determination, site location, labor force and employment development, socioeconomic impact assessment, and a variety of other forms of demographic and socioeconomic analyses for private and public sector concerns. Senior Research Associates Karl Eschbach, Associate and Interim Director Dr. Eschbach is associate professor in the Department of Demography and Organization Studies at UTSA, and by courtesy at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he is a collaborating researcher with Medical Branch’s Center for Population Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Eschbach received a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin. Before joining the Institute, Dr. Eschbach has taught at the University of Houston and at UTMB Galveston. His research has focused on the demography of racial and ethnic populations, immigration, and on the causes of differences in health and mortality for different population groups. Michael E. Cline Mr. Cline has over fifteen years of experience providing demographic analyses for a variety of governmental agencies, economic development groups, and businesses. His current interests include understanding the effects of demographic characteristics on transportation use, understanding urban and suburban development and change, religious involvement and the effects of demographic change on religious institutions, and economic impact analyses. Mr. Cline is currently involved in a research project with the Texas Department of Transportation to understand how future changes in the demographic structure of Texas may impact transportation planning. He is a co-author of A Study of the Economic Impact of the University of Texas System. A native of Snyder, Mr. Cline earned a B.A. in Geography from Texas Tech University and a M.A. in Geography from Kansas State University. Nazrul Hoque Dr. Hoque is an assistant professor in the Department of Demography and Organization Studies at UTSA where he teaches courses in applied demography. He began his career as a research analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, D.C. He then worked as a research scientist at the Department of Rural Sociology at Texas A&M University and at the Office of the State Demographer of Texas. Since 1989, he has been actively involved in the areas of research and application of population estimates and projections. He is specifically interested in the investigation, selection, and implementation of appropriate statistical and demographic techniques to produce annual population estimates for the state, counties, and places of Texas and biennial population projections for the state and counties of Texas. Other ongoing research includes projections of households, civilian labor force, and school enrollment in the state and counties of Texas. In addition to his work in Texas demography, Dr. Hoque has done extensive work on fertility and family planning issues in developing countries. He has published collaborative articles in refereed journals and book chapters. He has also co-authored two books published by Texas A&M University. Dr. Hoque received M.A.s from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh and the University of Waterloo, Canada and a Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from The Pennsylvania State University. Jeffrey A. Jordan Dr. Jordan has been involved in numerous research projects that investigate the relationship between demography and various other socioeconomic issues in Texas including education, criminal justice, and social services. In addition, he provides data and programming expertise on the various projects at the Institute and Center and supervises the IT staff. Previously, he worked at the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University where he was involved in several research projects addressing topics from adult and juvenile criminal justice, substance abuse prevention, and mental health evaluation. Prior to that, he was involved in research investigating group learning protocols and computer-based training with the U.S. Air Force. He has co-authored articles in journals in the fields of psychology and human factors, several technical reports, and a book on the methods and data sources for demographics. Dr. Jordan received a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 1997 from Texas A&M University in College Station. Beverly Pecotte Ms. Pecotte has over 20 years of experience coordinating the efforts of research, academic and programming staff on projects analyzing the demographic distribution patterns for Texas’ diverse environments, population groups and socioeconomic resources. She is currently responsible for the day-to-day management of the Texas State Data Center program and supervises the data collections needed to produce population estimates and projections for Texas. She has co-authored a number of books, articles, chapters and technical reports with other members of the research staff. Her background has proved valuable to the integrated research programs within this institute. Ms. Pecotte received a M.S. in Geography in 1983 from Texas A&M University. Steve White Mr. White’s research centers on the interrelationships between public policy and demography and has involved a wide range of topics including hazardous waste facility siting, property tax issues, community care for the aged, higher education enrollment and funding, rural development issues, and various aspects of welfare reform. His policy and population research began in 1993 with the Center for Socioeconomic and Demographic Research at Texas A&M University in College Station, the precursor of IDSER. Prior to that, he was involved with affordable housing as a research associate with the Center for Housing and Urban Development in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University in College Station. Mr. White received a B.S. in Psychology in 1973 from The University of Texas in Austin and a M.S. in Land Development in 1987 from Texas A&M University in College Station. |
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Texas State Data Center and Office of the State Demographer Send suggestions or comments to idser@utsa.edu |
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