Secrets of IPUMS-International: Integrating and disseminating census microdata to researchers world-wide free of cost Seminar
- Time:
- 16:00 - 17:00
- Date:
- 4 December 2013
- Venue:
- Building 58, Room 1007
For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Yvonne Richardson on 02380 598981 or email yr1@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Joint CLC/CPC Seminar
Abstract: IPUMS-International is a global initiative begun in 1999 to preserve, integrate and disseminate census microdata. 100 official statistical agencies -- including the Office of National Statistics in the UK -- have embraced IPUMS-International protocols for managing access to microdata free of cost. Researchers world-wide download custom-tailored extracts from www.ipums.org/international for more than two hundred censuses covering as many as five decades. The talk will bare some of the secrets of the project, share tips for exploiting the database, and discuss new projects: TerraPop (GIS), remote data access, integrating other types of microdata, and cooperation with national, regional and global initiatives.
Speaker information
Professor Robert McCaa , University of Minnesota. Professor Emeritus, Department of History.