At IPUMS we try to address every user’s questions and suggestions about our data. It is just one feature that adds value to IPUMS data. Over time, many questions are often repeated. In this blog series, we will be sharing some of those frequently asked questions. Maybe you’ll learn something, or perhaps you’ll just find these interesting. Regardless, we hope you enjoy.
Why are there so many missing U.S. counties in my data?
The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is about demographics and numbers and what that data means for people in Minnesota and around the world. We are also working to increase diversity and inclusion in these fields, as can be seen in the MPC Diversity Fellowship program, co-directed by Mia Riza and David Haynes.
At IPUMS we try to address every user’s questions and suggestions about our data. It is just one feature that adds value to IPUMS data. Over time, many questions are often repeated. In a new blog series, we will be sharing some of these frequently asked questions. Maybe you’ll learn something, or perhaps you’ll just find these interesting. Regardless, we hope you enjoy.
Here’s one of those questions:
Why do I have to apply for different projects? And When will my application be approved?
IPUMS Terra integrates population and environmental data by transforming data between microdata records describing individuals, area-level data records describing places, and grid-based raster data.
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.