Ruggles Steven, McCaa Robert, Sobek Matthew, Cleveland Lara
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
J Demogr Economics. 2015 Jun;81(2):203-216.
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.
综合公共使用微观数据系列(IPUMS)国际合作项目是明尼苏达人口中心与各国统计机构开展的一个项目,致力于收集和发布来自世界各地的人口普查数据。IPUMS目前正在发布来自79个国家250多个普查样本中超过5亿人的数据。该数据系列包含了一系列广泛的人口特征信息,包括生育率、婚姻状况、人生历程转变、迁移、劳动力参与、职业结构、教育、种族以及家庭构成。本文描述了样本特征和数据结构;数据整合过程,包括构建家庭相互关系变量;灵活的发布系统,使研究人员能够跨时间和地点构建汇总普查样本的定制提取物;以及从该数据库中得出的一些最重要的发现。