Applied Population Lab Resources
The UW-Madison Applied Population Lab offers a tremendous breadth of interactive demographic and socio-economic tools, analyses, and reports. Some of these are detailed in this Data Inventory, but APL provides many more than can be listed here. Some of these topics include geographic access to childcare, population trends, translational applied demography, age trends, poverty modeling, ancestry analyses, housing density analyses, and poverty and food insecurity profiles.
User expertise rating:
Beginner. APL’s resources are comprehensive, easy to navigate, and well-documented.
Sample questions:
Which regions in a given county have limited access to childcare, and how does this lack of local care infrastructure impact the workforce participation of residents in those areas? How has the residential footprint of a given county changed over the last 70 years, and what do these historic shifts in density imply for local land-use planning or the delivery of community services?
