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IPUMS and MPC Partnership with DFRACS Program

June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 by mpcblog

Spring semester recently came to a close here at the University of Minnesota, which means IPUMS and the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) had to bid farewell to another cohort of students from the Dean’s First-Year Research and Creative Scholars (DFRACS) program through the College of Liberal Arts (CLA).

Each year during spring semester, the DFRACS program pairs up to 150 first-year undergraduate students with faculty and research staff who are interested in help on their research or creative projects. These highly talented students get to engage in scholarly work early in their academic careers, form relationships with faculty and staff, and potentially motivate their studies. This year, IPUMS staff and MPC-affiliated faculty had the pleasure of working with 26 of these students. Since our partnership with the program began in 2008, IPUMS and MPC have been matched with a total of 174 students.

First Annual Student Poster Extravaganza!

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 by mpcblog

The Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation hosted its first ever Student Poster Extravaganza of May 1.

This poster session featured research from two MPC faculty-led courses that trained graduate and undergraduate students in quantitative analysis, MPC’s College of Liberal Arts Freshman Interns, and MPC Graduate Trainees in Population Studies (who come from PhD programs in several colleges and departments).

New to IPUMS Time Use and IPUMS MEPS: Rectangularizing Down

December 18, 2019May 16, 2019 by mpcblog

Don’t be a square—rectangularize!

Introducing…the option to rectangularize down for extracts in IPUMS Time Use and IPUMS MEPS.

What do we mean by “rectangularize”?

IPUMS Powers the News

May 15, 2019May 6, 2019 by mpcblog

When reading the newspaper, you may come across articles discussing U.S. housing, the labor market, family structure, the life course, or population change. Chances are good that IPUMS provided the data underlying these stories. Consider the following stories, published in the Washington Post in March 2019.

IPUMS Announces 2018 Research Award Recipients

April 23, 2019April 9, 2019 by mpcblog

IPUMS is excited to announce the winners of its annual IPUMS Research Awards. These awards honor the best published research and self-nominated graduate student papers from 2018 that used IPUMS data to advance or deepen our understanding of social and demographic processes.

IPUMS, developed by and housed at the University of Minnesota, is the world’s largest individual-level population database, providing harmonized data on people in the U.S. and around the world to researchers at no cost.

IPUMS Search has a New Look!

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 by mpcblog

You may have noticed that the search tool for all IPUMS microdata projects has a new look.

via GIPHY

If not, you might also be the kind of person who doesn’t notice when your significant other gets a major haircut. Really, it’s fine. You are probably so busy admiring our dazzling data that you can barely notice the search tool. Now, however, is the time when we point out that we do have a new search tool, and you can fawn over it while we enthusiastically gush about the new options for basic or advanced search!

New Course using IPUMS PMA and IPUMS DHS Data

December 18, 2019March 18, 2019 by mpcblog

Professor Kathryn Grace (geography) is providing a unique opportunity for students to conduct independent research this semester through a brand-new course, “Applied Quantitative Methods Using Survey Data.” In the course, which is open to both graduates and undergraduates, students develop a research question related to global health and, using IPUMS PMA or IPUMS DHS data, learn the steps for answering it.