Data

The MPC is the world’s leading developer of historical and international census data, and disseminates population data to thousands of teachers, researchers, and policy makers. Each of the major data infrastructure projects is described below. The MPC is a data depository and custom service provider for the Minnesota State Data Center.

IPUMS-USA

The IPUMS consists of high-precision samples of the American population drawn from 15 censuses and the American Community Survey, spanning 1850 to 2005. The data and documentation are harmonized, making it easy to use multiple census years simultaneously.

IPUMS-International

IPUMS-International is an integrated series of census microdata samples from 1960 to the present. At this time, the series includes 63 samples drawn from 20 countries, with more scheduled for release in the future. MPC is collaborating with statistical agencies, data archives, and demographic experts from the participating countries to create this resource.

IPUMS-CPS

IPUMS-CPS provides integrated data and documentation from the Annual Demographic Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1962 to 2006. The harmonized CPS data is also compatible with the data from IPUMS-USA.

The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP)

NAPP is a harmonized database of the complete censuses of Canada (1881), Great Britain (1881), Norway (1865, 1900), and the United States (1880). We will be adding six complete censuses of Iceland, the complete 1890 census of Sweden, and twenty samples from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to the databases.

National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)

NHGIS provides U.S. aggregate census data and electronic boundary files for tracts and counties between 1790 and 2000.

Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS)

The Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS) provides integrated data and documentation from the U.S. National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) from 1969 to the present. Over 1000 integrated variables are now available, and linking keys enable users to include other, not yet integrated variables from the NHIS files.

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