What is ACS IPUMS?
What is ACS IPUMS?
What is ACS IPUMS?
The ACS is a project of the U.S. Census Bureau that has replaced the decennial census as the key source of information about American population and housing characteristics. The IPUMS database contains samples from the 2000-2020 ACS.
What is IPUMS CPS?
What is IPUMS-CPS? [ top] IPUMS-CPS is an integrated set of data spanning more than 50 years (1962-forward) of the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly U.S. household survey conducted jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
What does IPUMS stand for?
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
IPUMS originally stood for Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. In 2016, all of our data projects took on the IPUMS prefix as part of their project name (e.g., IPUMS NHGIS, IPUMS Terra, etc.).
What data does IPUMS have?
IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts.
How do I use IPUMS?
Here are a few of our top tips for using IPUMS!
- START EARLY!
- Download your data immediately upon receiving the email link.
- Create an account for each IPUMS project you intend to use.
- Read all of the metadata and codebook information carefully.
- Remember to change the data format to be Stata compatible – .
- Ask for help!
What is NIU in CPS?
The original 1962 dataset lacked “NIU” (not in universe) codes for individuals outside the universe for numerous variables. IPUMS-CPS has imposed such codes.
Where does Ipums get their data?
IPUMS-International (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, International) is the world’s largest collection of publicly available individual-level census data. The data are samples from population censuses from around the world taken since 1960.
How do I use Ipums?
Is Ipums a database?
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is the world’s largest individual-level population database.
How do I download data from IPUMS?
When you get the email from IPUMS there will be a link. Click on the link to go to the download page. If you would like to have more control over how you read the data into Stata: Page 5 5 Download the data, codebook, and command files. Be sure to download the STATA version of the command file.