Data from AHTUS at ATUS is used here to show American parents are spending more time than ever before with their children. https://econ.st/4so6t8y
Data from AHTUS at ATUS is used here to show American parents are spending more time than ever before with their children. https://econ.st/4so6t8y
Summer plans? Oh - we are just hanging out with the best group of people at the Data-Intensive Workshop on July 20 -21. That amazing crew could include you! Apply by April 1st! https://lcc.umn.edu/DIRC-workshop
Check out this new blog post from IPUMS DHS covering indicators of environmental moisture, useful for studying agricultural productivity. https://bit.ly/47ekNs3
Don't forget to submit your abstract for the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) conference by tomorrow (March 5th!) #GSA2026 https://www.gsa2026.org/abstracts
The Data Infrastructure Network will mark its fifth year at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta! We want to highlight your work, ideas, and discoveries! The deadline to submit your abstract is March 15, 2026. Details are here: ssha2026.ssha.org
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Register to join "Working with IPUMS NHGIS in R: Exploring, Extracting, and Analyzing Spatial Data Using ipumsr" starting TODAY (February 18) at 11:00am CT
What they found demonstrates the importance of social context, local gender norms, and type of father engagement. #poweredbyIPUMS www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
Does father involvement in childcare improve mothersβ life satisfaction outside Western contexts? Researchers investigated using MICS data from Bangladesh & Pakistan, #poweredbyIPUMS: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
Remember to get those abstract submissions in for the 2026 Data-Intensive Research Conference hosted in Minneapolis in July! The deadline is TODAY (February 2nd). lcc.umn.edu/DIRC-proposals
Join us for Virtual Office Hours TODAY (1/28) from 10:00am-11:30am 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
The CPS 2025 November monthly data are now available on IPUMS CPS π CPS data collection and processing were among the many U.S. government programs and services interrupted by the October 1-November 12, 2025 U.S. government shutdown. Learn more: blog.popdata.org/2025-u-s-gov...
A lot happened in 2025 - but we remain committed to service through our open-access database to help power critical research in migration, urban planning, public health, and economic development. geospatialworld.net/videos/ipums...
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π¨New Data alert! π¨ The 2024 1-year ACS PUMS data are now available via IPUMS USA, and IPUMS NHGIS recently released the summary file data.
We are eagerly awaiting Census Bureau's release of the November 2025 basic monthly and keeping tabs on anything special that users should know about.
We know you are all doing extraordinary work #poweredbyIPUMS - and we want to reward it! The annual research awards competition is now open - submit a nomination today! π (Did we mention the cash prizes? πΈ) www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...
Last call: Join our webinar "Beyond the PUMA: Supplemental Geography in ACS Microdata from IPUMS USA" starting today at 1:00 PM CT z.umn.edu/IPUMS-USA-We...
The September Basic Monthly Survey is now available via IPUMS CPS, as well as exciting data from the Center on Poverty and Social Policy extending the Supplemental Poverty Measure reaching back to 1968. Explore it all at cps.ipums.org/cps/
IPUMS IHGIS has released population censuses for Azerbaijan 2009, Kenya 2019, and Nigeria 2006, and agricultural census data for South Africa 2007. The Azerbaijan data had never before been digitized, and the Nigeria data are the first IPUMS census data for the country. Find it at ihgis.ipums.org
New blog post from IPUMS DHS! This post goes more in depth on using a comparable measure of dietary diversity in a multilevel model using DHS data. Check it out at tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...
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!
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...
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.
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...
Upcoming deadlines for responding to the USDA termination of the CPS Food Security supplement.
β‘οΈTODAY: submit a comment on the importance of these data: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
β‘TOMORROW: sign onto the @popassocamerica.bsky.social letter: form.jotform.com/252865538947...
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/