Big Data: Large-Scale Historical Infrastructure from the Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) provides aggregate data and microdata that have been integrated and harmonized to maximize crosstemporal and cross-spatial comparability. All MPC data products are distributed free of charge through an interactive Web interface that enables users to limit the data and metadata being analyzed to samples and variables of interest to their research. In this article, the authors describe the integrated databases available from the MPC, report on recent additions and enhancements to these data sets, and summarize new online tools and resources that help users to analyze the data over time. They conclude with a description of the MPC's newest and largest infrastructure project to date: a global population and environment data network.
Institution: University of Minnesota
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: IPUMS 1930 Sample: Competing Continuation, Public Use Microdata Sample of the 1900 Census, New Data Resources form the 1960 U.S. Census, Population Database for the United States in 1880, Microdata for Analysis of Early Life Conditions, Health, and Population, Baseline Socioeconomic Microdata for Population and Health Research, PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE OF THE 1910 CENSUS, Minnesota Population Center, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: North Atlantic Population Project, Microdata for Population Dynamics and Health Research, Time Use Data for Health and Well-Being, Integrated International Microdata for Population Dynamics and Health Research, Minnesota Population Center, National Spatiotemporal Population Research Infrastructure, U.S. Health Surveys Microdata for Population Health Research
OpenAlex ID: W2001538142