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The Ipums Collaboration: Integrating and Disseminating the World’s Population Microdata

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) International partnership is a project of the Minnesota Population Center and national statistical agencies, dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. IPUMS is currently disseminating data on over a half-billion persons enumerated in more than 250 census samples from 79 countries. The data series includes information on a broad range of population characteristics, including fertility, nuptiality, life-course transitions, migration, labor-force participation, occupational structure, education, ethnicity, and household composition. This paper describes sample characteristics and data structure; the data integration process including the creation of constructed family interrelationship variables; the flexible dissemination system that enables researchers to build customized extracts of pooled census samples across time and place; and some of the most significant findings that have emerged from the database.

Source: Journal of Demographic Economics

DOI: 10.1017/dem.2014.6

Authors: Steven Ruggles, Robert McCaa, Matthew Sobek, Lara Cleveland

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: English

Topic: Data Analysis and Archiving

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: Integrated Samples of Latin American Censuses, Minnesota Population Center, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: North Atlantic Population Project, Microdata for Population Dynamics and Health Research, Integrated International Microdata for Population Dynamics and Health Research