IPUMS Graduate Workshop

The Minnesota Population Center Graduate Student Workshop is a free 4-hour workshop over two days introducing graduate students in the social sciences and public health to the free data resources of the Minnesota Population Center. Both days of the workshop are required attendance. 

The databases covered will include:

• IPUMS-USA, International and CPS: 155 years of American and international census data, and the Current Population Survey

• North Atlantic Population Project: Complete-count census data from the late nineteenth century

• IHIS-Integrated Health Interview Survey: More than 30 years of the National Health Interview Survey

• NHGIS: More than 200 years of aggregate data from the United States census

 
With the right questions you won't need any other data for your term paper, thesis or dissertation This free workshop will introduce you to the data and the kind of research it supports, and then move to a computer lab where you will start doing research with the data.

Audience

Graduate students in the social sciences or public health; familiarity with SAS, SPSS, or STATA ideal.   Lab Instruction will be in SPSS, using the IPUMS-USA dataset, with lab assistants available for SAS and STATA statistical help and help with other MPC datasets.

Instructors

Graduate research assistants from the Minnesota Population Center will lead the course.

Registration

Send an email with your name, department, the statistical package you are most familiar with, a short description of your research interests, and the data you are most interested in to mpc-student-help@pop.umn.edu

Date and time

Thursday October 11^th and Friday October 12^th from 2:30-4:30, both days.

Locations

Thursday October 11^th - MPC Seminar Room (50 Willey Hall)
Friday October 12^th - Blegen 440