IPUMS is excited to announce the winners of its annual IPUMS Research Awards. The awards honor the best of 2016’s published research and self-nominated graduate student papers that used IPUMS data to advance or deepen our understanding of social and demographic processes.
IPUMS Workshop at PAA
Are you or a colleague interested in learning more about IPUMS? Are you attending the PAA Annual Meeting in Chicago this April? IPUMS is hosting a free “Introduction to IPUMS” workshop. We will introduce the IPUMS collection, highlighting newly available census and survey data. The event will be held on Thursday, April 27, from 6:30pm-8pm. Register now and we will save a spot for you.
New IPUMS Data
IPUMS USA has released one-year and five-year ACS and PRCS data, as well as household-level full count data for the years 1790-1840.
IPUMS CPS has released the identifiers MARBASECID and CPISD, which allow users to link monthly data to the ASEC from 1989-2015 along with new data from several supplements.
IPUMS Time Use now includes IPUMS family interrelationship variables, these variables deliver individual-level characteristics on activity records, and offers eldercare recipient records via the extract system.
IPUMS Health Surveys will soon offer new data from the 2015 Cancer Control Supplement.
IPUMS International will have a large data release this spring. The 24 samples in the upcoming release include data from new countries of Botswana, Poland, and Trinidad and Tobago as well as 2010-round data from many existing partners. This release will also include enhancements to the integrated geographic variables and associated shapefiles to facilitate cross-temporal spatial comparison and visualization.
IPUMS DHS is adding six newly-released samples and almost 3,000 new variables. New data include variables on pregnancy termination, childrearing, women’s work, marriage and sexuality, family planning, HIV, malaria, postpartum care, health care access, treatment of child fever/respiratory illness, and vaccinations.
Use of IPUMS data has grown steadily over the past 15 years. In particular, the IPUMS USA and IPUMS CPS projects have recognized a considerable increase in daily downloads since their inception. Despite this growth in use, however, the future of federal statistics data collection is in question as the United States transitions to a new Presidential administration.
Building a strong sense of community is fundamental to nurturing and sustaining successful organizations. IPUMS and the MPC pursue three avenues—educational, social, and historical—for building community for its faculty, research associates, staff, and affiliates.
We are pleased to announce the 9th annual competition for the best research papers using the IPUMS microdata collection. Papers or publications submitted should utilize IPUMS-USA, IPUMS-CPS, IPUMS-International, NAPP, or IHIS to study social, economic, and/or demographic processes. We are looking particularly for papers that use innovative approaches, comparative analyses, interesting variables, or multiple IPUMS datasets.
IPUMS is hiring. We are currently recruiting candidates who are enthusiastic about creating the data that fuels social science and health research around the world. We are seeking smart, data-minded people to join our growing team of researchers and technical staff.
In February 2015, the MPC approved the organization of an institutional archive to preserve materials based on oral history interviews, administrative records, procedures for data development and integration, and memorabilia. The goal of the Minnesota Population Center Archive is to collect, organize and preserve materials documenting the growth and development of the MPC and the IPUMS and their contribution to social science infrastructure.