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Data Bank Launches New Report Series: Current Jewish Population Reports
The population articles from the defunct American Jewish Year Book have been published as part of a new series sponsored by the Berman Institute - North American Jewish Data Bank, the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, and the Jewish Federations of North America. The series is called Current Jewish Population Reports. The Report by Ira Sheskin (University of Miami) and Arnold Dashefsky (University of Connecticut) ("The Jewish Population of the United States, 2010") has been published as Report 2010-1.
The Report by Sergio DellaPergola ("World Jewish Population, 2010") was subsequently published as Report 2010-2. Previous reports had been a part of the American Jewish Year Book, which, after 108 years, ceased publication in 2008. Many of these earlier articles, along with the new report series, may be found on our American Jewish Year Book page.
An Update on Jewish Community Studies in Progress (as of 6/11)
A brief summary of studies currently in progress is as follows:
2011 Greater Cleveland Jewish Population Study
- Randomly-based landline and cell telephone study of Greater Cleveland area.
- Approximately 1,000 randomly-based telephone interviews to be completed with Jewish households, including RDD-based cell phone interviews.
- Initial data reports to be released in early 2012.
- Research conducted for the Jewish Federation of Greater Cleveland by JPAR (Jewish Policy & Action Research), a strategic alliance of SSRS (Social Science Research Solutions) and Ukeles Associates, Inc. (UAI).
- Jack Ukeles, David Dutwin, Pearl Beck, Ron Miller and Robyn Rapoport are the principal researchers for the JPAR team
- The last RDD-based study of the Cleveland Jewish Community was conducted in 1996 by Market Solutions of Phoenix, AZ for principal researchers Lauren Raff, Gary A. Tobin and Minna Wolf. The study estimated just under 34,000 Jewish households and approximately 80,000 Jewish persons, based on just under 1,200 interviews.
- A 2004 list-only study of over 2,000 Jewish households on the Federation list provided insight into demographic characteristics of the Jewish community-connected community, but was not designed to provide a Jewish population estimate.
- For more information, please see The Jewish Federation of Greater Cleveland's description of the study.
The Milwaukee Jewish Community Study: 2011
The Milwaukee Jewish Federation has announced that it is conducting the first study of Milwaukee's Jewish community since 1996.
The Study will begin with randomized telephone interviews in March, 2011, followed by an online survey beginning in April, 2011. Project results are expected in late April, 2011.
The study will be conducted by Stephen L. Percy, Ph.D, acting dean of the School of Public Health, director of the Center for Community Initiatives and Research (CUIR) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), and professor of political science and urban studies. He will be assisted by April Slabosheski, a senior majoring in Jewish studies and an intern at the Center to help with comparisons to past local studies, as well as to recent studies conducted in other communities.
The last Jewish community study of Greater Milwaukee was conducted for the Federation in 1996 by Dr. Ira M. Sheskin and found that the Jewish Population was estimated at 21,000 Jewish persons in 10,400 Jewish households and an additional 4,400 not-Jewish persons lived in these households.
Press releases indicate that the Federation expects to find a "shrinking" population. See the following for additional details about the study:
the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, a recent article in the Chronicle and one in the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011
UJA-Federation of New York has announced that it is"launching a full-scale study of New York's Jewish population, last conducted about 10 years ago. The study aims to complete 6,000 interviews, making it the largest Jewish community study ever undertaken outside of Israel....This will be the first study of the Jews of New York to include cell phone interviews."
- Randomly-based landline and cell telephone study of the five Boroughs of New York City (The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Richmond) as well as Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties
- Approximately 6,000 telephone interviews will be completed with Jewish households.
- Interviewing to begin in February 2011 and be completed by June, 2011.
- Initial data reports to be released in 2012
- Research conducted for UJA-Federation of New York by JPAR (Jewish Policy & Action Research), a strategic alliance of SSRS (Social Science Research Solutions) and Ukeles Associates, Inc. (UAI).
- Steven. M. Cohen will serve as JPAR's Project Director; David Dutwin of SSRS is the study's Chief Methodologist. Other members of the JPAR team will include Pearl Beck, Joshua Comenetz, Ron Miller (the Associate Director of the Data Bank), Svetlana Shmulyian and Jacob B. "Jack" Ukeles (President of UAI).
- Ukeles Associates, Inc., conducted the New York Study in 2002; interviewing by SSRS, then called the Social Science Research Group of ICR (International Communications Research)
- The Jewish population in the eight-county New York area was estimated to be 1,412,000 in the 2002 study.
- See this UJA Federation of New York Study Overview Page for additional details about the study.
Chicago, IL
- Randomly-based landline and cell telephone study of Metropolitan Chicago area (Cook County and Lake County are major Jewish areas; study also includes DuPage, Kane, McHenry and Will Counties).
- Approximately 2,000 telephone interviews completed with Jewish households, including approximately 200 interviews completed via cell phones with Jewish respondents.
- Initial data reports to be released in Summer, 2011.
- Research conducted for JUF/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago by JPAR (Jewish Policy & Action Research), a strategic alliance of SSRS (Social Science Research Solutions) and Ukeles Associates, Inc. (UAI).
- Interviewing for the 2000-2001 study was conducted by the same SSRS interviewing team, then called the Social Science Research Group of ICR (International Communications Research), which completed 2,048 Jewish respondent interviews. The Jewish population in Greater Chicago was estimated to be 270,500 in the 2000-2001 study.
- See Chicago Jewish Community Survey for additional details about the current study.
Data Bank Bulletin
The Volume 4, Numbers 1-2 of the Data Bank Bulletin (PDF) was made available in July, 2009. Older bulletins include March, 2008, August, 2007, March, 2007, Aug, 2006, Dec, 2005, and
June, 2005.
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