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As part of the 2017 Minnesota Population Center Diversity Fellowship program, the goal of our project—titled “IPUMS-International and IPUMS-DHS Stats Education Outreach”—was to develop exercises in basic statistics that were based on the IPUMS-International (census) and IPUMS-DHS (Demographic and Health Survey) datasets.
The IPUMS journey to global domination dissemination is being celebrated this summer through an exhibit in the Seminar Room at the Minnesota Population Center.
Census forms are sent out to households, filled out by families, and returned. But that’s not the end of their journey. Sometimes a response will be edited by the Census if the form was filled out incorrectly. What responses are edited the most? Why are forms filled out incorrectly? Some people tend to leave them blank if they feel it is an invasion of privacy. How does the Census determine what is true or false? IPUMS users can now access the Census editing procedures for the American Community Survey on the IPUMS website. This feature allows IPUMS users to understand how the Census Bureau edits responses in order to provide more accurate data.