IPUMS
@ipums.bsky.social
Provider of census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. Use it for good, never for evil. ipums.org
Join us for Virtual Office Hours TOMORROW (11/18) from 10:30am-12:00pm CT. You'll have the chance to connect with IPUMS data experts and get your questions answered. Pop in anytime, but registration is required: z.umn.edu/IPUMS-VOH
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Population Data Virtual Office Hours hosted by IPUMS. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join us for virtual office hours on Tuesday, November 18 to chat with IPUMS data experts about your questions. Registration is required to attend virtual office hours, but you can drop in any time bet...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Join us for Virtual Office Hours TOMORROW (11/18) from 10:30am-12:00pm CT. You'll have the chance to connect with IPUMS data experts and get your questions answered. Pop in anytime, but registration is required: z.umn.edu/IPUMS-VOH
SSHA is this week - we are excited to be attending!
One week until the start of the Social Science History Association annual meeting in Chicago, 20-23 November. The Data Infrastructure Network can't wait to see you! @socscihistory.bsky.social ssha2025.ssha.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
SSHA is this week - we are excited to be attending!
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Time diary data have boundless potential for research hinging on understanding human behavior, but the data are complex!
New pub w/@sarahflood.bsky.social, @juliariveradrew.bsky.social & Liana Sayer "Increasing the Usability of the American Time Use Survey: IPUMS ATUS"
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New pub w/@sarahflood.bsky.social, @juliariveradrew.bsky.social & Liana Sayer "Increasing the Usability of the American Time Use Survey: IPUMS ATUS"
www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Time diary data have boundless potential for research hinging on understanding human behavior, but the data are complex!
New pub w/@sarahflood.bsky.social, @juliariveradrew.bsky.social & Liana Sayer "Increasing the Usability of the American Time Use Survey: IPUMS ATUS"
www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10...
New pub w/@sarahflood.bsky.social, @juliariveradrew.bsky.social & Liana Sayer "Increasing the Usability of the American Time Use Survey: IPUMS ATUS"
www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10...
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Pleased to be part of the history making "IPUMS USA Full Count Census Data" special issue in Historical Methods 58(4). @ipums.bsky.social @stevenruggles.bsky.social @mattanelson.bsky.social @juliariveradrew.bsky.social @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/vhim20/5...
Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
IPUMS USA Full Count Census Data Collection. Volume 58, Issue 4 of Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
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October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Pleased to be part of the history making "IPUMS USA Full Count Census Data" special issue in Historical Methods 58(4). @ipums.bsky.social @stevenruggles.bsky.social @mattanelson.bsky.social @juliariveradrew.bsky.social @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/vhim20/5...
IPUMS USA has released a new geographic variable, METPOP20, which identifies the size of respondents' commuting system and provides a continuous index of urban/rural status. This release has updates to other metropolitan area, utility cost, property tax, and multigenerational household variables.
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usa.ipums.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
IPUMS USA has released a new geographic variable, METPOP20, which identifies the size of respondents' commuting system and provides a continuous index of urban/rural status. This release has updates to other metropolitan area, utility cost, property tax, and multigenerational household variables.
New blog post from IPUMS DHS on how to create forecasts of child nutrition using DHS, CHIRTS, and CHC-CMIP6 data - check it out at tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
Using Historical and Projected Climate Data to Forecast Child Malnutrition
In the final post in our series on future estimation we create a model to predict child malnutrition and plug in projected climate scenario data to predict a future level of child malnutrition.
tech.popdata.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
New blog post from IPUMS DHS on how to create forecasts of child nutrition using DHS, CHIRTS, and CHC-CMIP6 data - check it out at tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
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Upcoming deadlines for responding to the USDA termination of the CPS Food Security supplement.
➡️TODAY: submit a comment on the importance of these data: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
➡TOMORROW: sign onto the @popassocamerica.bsky.social letter: form.jotform.com/252865538947...
➡️TODAY: submit a comment on the importance of these data: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
➡TOMORROW: sign onto the @popassocamerica.bsky.social letter: form.jotform.com/252865538947...
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Upcoming deadlines for responding to the USDA termination of the CPS Food Security supplement.
➡️TODAY: submit a comment on the importance of these data: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
➡TOMORROW: sign onto the @popassocamerica.bsky.social letter: form.jotform.com/252865538947...
➡️TODAY: submit a comment on the importance of these data: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
➡TOMORROW: sign onto the @popassocamerica.bsky.social letter: form.jotform.com/252865538947...
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IPUMS MEPS (Medical Expenditure Household Survey) now offers 1,100 new variables from the 2023 survey. Easily accessible! @ipums.bsky.social @umn-idim.bsky.social
View data here: meps.ipums.org/meps/
View data here: meps.ipums.org/meps/
IPUMS MEPS
MEPS is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to Collect and preserve data and documentation, Harmonize data, Disseminate the data absolut...
meps.ipums.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
IPUMS MEPS (Medical Expenditure Household Survey) now offers 1,100 new variables from the 2023 survey. Easily accessible! @ipums.bsky.social @umn-idim.bsky.social
View data here: meps.ipums.org/meps/
View data here: meps.ipums.org/meps/
Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...
Measuring Food Security with U.S. Federal Data – Use It for Good
blog.popdata.org
October 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...
Our home Institute is hiring! They are actively recruiting for a Program Coordinator and a Communications Manager for the newly launching NIA Demography and Economics on Aging Coordinator Center. Learn more about both positions and apply: isrdi.umn.edu/employment
October 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our home Institute is hiring! They are actively recruiting for a Program Coordinator and a Communications Manager for the newly launching NIA Demography and Economics on Aging Coordinator Center. Learn more about both positions and apply: isrdi.umn.edu/employment
Two out of three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics appear in the IPUMS Bibliography. If it's good enough for nobel prize winners... www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Two out of three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics appear in the IPUMS Bibliography. If it's good enough for nobel prize winners... www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
Just sayin' 😉
With 4 econ hist prizes in a row they should give it to Steve Ruggles already and get it over with
October 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just sayin' 😉
🌟 New Data alert! 🌟 IPUMS MEPS now includes data from the 2023 sample; over 1,100 variables from the Full Year Consolidated, Condition, Event, Prescribed Medicine, Appendix to the Event, and Pooled Variance files. New variables include data about COVID-19 on the round record. meps.ipums.org/meps/
IPUMS MEPS
MEPS is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to Collect and preserve data and documentation, Harmonize data, Disseminate the data absolut...
meps.ipums.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🌟 New Data alert! 🌟 IPUMS MEPS now includes data from the 2023 sample; over 1,100 variables from the Full Year Consolidated, Condition, Event, Prescribed Medicine, Appendix to the Event, and Pooled Variance files. New variables include data about COVID-19 on the round record. meps.ipums.org/meps/
We are looking forward to the Beyond the Numbers conference at the St. Louis Fed on November 12 - 14. Don't forget the registration deadline is November 5th! Learn all about it at events.stlouisfed.org/event/aaa3bc...
Home - Beyond the Numbers 2025
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September 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We are looking forward to the Beyond the Numbers conference at the St. Louis Fed on November 12 - 14. Don't forget the registration deadline is November 5th! Learn all about it at events.stlouisfed.org/event/aaa3bc...
🌟🏠 New household and female data are now available for six countries on IPUMS PMA: Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, and Nigeria. Find it at pma.ipums.org/pma/ 🌟🏠
IPUMS PMA
IPUMS PMA facilitates analysis of Performance Monitoring for Action, a Gates Foundation-funded initiative to measure key family planning indicators in Africa and Asia.
pma.ipums.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🌟🏠 New household and female data are now available for six countries on IPUMS PMA: Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, and Nigeria. Find it at pma.ipums.org/pma/ 🌟🏠
New IHGIS data provide a time series of six Ireland population censuses covering 1966-1991, plus population censuses for Chad 2009, Jordan 2015, and Zambia 2000. All 8 new datasets have data to at least the third administrative level. ihgis.ipums.org
September 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New IHGIS data provide a time series of six Ireland population censuses covering 1966-1991, plus population censuses for Chad 2009, Jordan 2015, and Zambia 2000. All 8 new datasets have data to at least the third administrative level. ihgis.ipums.org
Check out this new blog post from IPMUS DHS showing users how to access and use climate scenario data for child health research! tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
Harnessing CHC-CMIP6 Climate Scenario Data to Explore the Future
Returning to our series on future estimation, we provide an overview of a data source for future climate scenarios.
tech.popdata.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Check out this new blog post from IPMUS DHS showing users how to access and use climate scenario data for child health research! tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
New blog post from IPUMS DHS on dietary diversity and spatial analysis - check it out at tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
IPUMS DHS Spatial Analysis and Health Research Hub
Understand population health in its environmental context
tech.popdata.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New blog post from IPUMS DHS on dietary diversity and spatial analysis - check it out at tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
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Day 2 of the Data-Intensive Research Conference is full of so many great talks. So invigorating to be surrounded by so many smart and passionate people! @ipums.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Day 2 of the Data-Intensive Research Conference is full of so many great talks. So invigorating to be surrounded by so many smart and passionate people! @ipums.bsky.social
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Day two of the Data-Intensive Research Conference is officially underway (thanks @hpostel.bsky.social for kicking us off)! @ipums.bsky.social @umnlifecourse.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Day two of the Data-Intensive Research Conference is officially underway (thanks @hpostel.bsky.social for kicking us off)! @ipums.bsky.social @umnlifecourse.bsky.social
Wonderful lunch and keynote today at the Data-Intensive Research Conference @umnlifecourse.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Wonderful lunch and keynote today at the Data-Intensive Research Conference @umnlifecourse.bsky.social
Off to a great start here at the Data-Intensive Research Conference! @umnlifecourse.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Off to a great start here at the Data-Intensive Research Conference! @umnlifecourse.bsky.social
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Today is going to be an IPUMStastic day 💙 @ipums.bsky.social @umnlifecourse.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today is going to be an IPUMStastic day 💙 @ipums.bsky.social @umnlifecourse.bsky.social
We are already off to an amazing start! lcc.umn.edu/DIRC
So excited to be kicking off day 1 of our Data-Intensive Research Pre-Conference Workshop! @ipums.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We are already off to an amazing start! lcc.umn.edu/DIRC
The 2024 NHIS data are now available through IPUMS NHIS, with updates to nearly 700 existing variables from core and rotating sections, along with new variables on loneliness, long COVID, and GLP medication intake. nhis.ipums.org/nhis/
IPUMS NHIS
IPUMS NHIS is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to Collect and preserve data and documentation, Harmonize data, Disseminate the data a...
nhis.ipums.org
August 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The 2024 NHIS data are now available through IPUMS NHIS, with updates to nearly 700 existing variables from core and rotating sections, along with new variables on loneliness, long COVID, and GLP medication intake. nhis.ipums.org/nhis/