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The Ipums Collaboration: Integrating And Disseminating The World’S Population Microdata

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  • Ruggles, Steven
  • McCaa, Robert
  • Sobek, Matthew
  • Cleveland, Lara

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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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  • Ruggles, Steven & McCaa, Robert & Sobek, Matthew & Cleveland, Lara, 2015. "The Ipums Collaboration: Integrating And Disseminating The World’S Population Microdata," Journal of Demographic Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 81(2), pages 203-216, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:demeco:v:81:y:2015:i:2:p:203-216_3
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