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Title: The IPUMS Collaboration: Integrating and Disseminating the World's Population Microdata
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2015
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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.
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Authors: Ruggles, Steven J; McCaa, Robert; Sobek, Matthew; Cleveland, Lara L
Periodical (Full): Journal of Demographic Economics
Issue: 2
Volume: 81
Pages: 203-217
Countries: Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Haiti, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia