The Minnesota Population Center ( MPC ) is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center at the University of Minnesota . MPC was established in 2000, absorbing two earlier population research organizations. The primary goals of the center are to foster large-scale cross-disciplinary research collaborations and to provide shared infrastructure for demographic research. The center now has 100 faculty affiliates from 10 University of Minnesota Colleges, over 50 graduate student affiliates and 120 administrative and research staff.
6-693: The primary activity of MPC is demographic research; work at the center is divided into eight major themes: MPC is the producer and distributor of the world's largest demographic data collections. These data collections include the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP), and
12-613: A consistent format and made available to researchers through a web-based data dissemination and analysis system. IPUMS is housed at the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation (ISRDI), an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Minnesota , under the direction of Professor Steven Ruggles . IPUMS includes all persons enumerated in the United States Censuses from 1850 to 1950 (though,
18-615: The 1890 census is missing because it was destroyed in a fire) and from the American Community Survey since 2000 and the Current Population Survey since 1962. IPUMS includes household-level data for United States Censuses from 1790 to 1840 , due to the first six censuses only including the name of the head of household, with tallied household totals following. IPUMS provides consistent variable names, coding schemes, and documentation across all
24-706: The Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS). Over 40,000 demographic researchers worldwide are registered to use these data collections. This University of Minnesota -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . IPUMS IPUMS , originally the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series , is the world's largest individual-level population database. IPUMS consists of microdata samples from United States ( IPUMS-USA ) and international ( IPUMS-International ) census records, as well as data from U.S. and international surveys. The records are converted into
30-526: The data while losing no meaningful information. Comprehensive documentation is provided in a coherent form to facilitate comparative analyses of social and economic change. Additional databases in the IPUMS family include the: The Journal of American History described the effort as "One of the great archival projects of the past two decades." Liens Socio, the French portal for the social sciences, gave IPUMS
36-547: The samples, facilitating the analysis of long-term change. IPUMS-International includes countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America for 1960 forward. The database currently includes more than a billion individuals enumerated in 365 censuses from 94 countries around the world. IPUMS-International converts census microdata for multiple countries into a consistent format, allowing for comparisons across countries and time periods. Special efforts are made to simplify use of
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