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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

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Population Data Virtual Office Hours hosted by IPUMS. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Join us for virtual office hours on Wednesday, January 28 to chat with IPUMS data experts about your questions. Registration is required to attend virtual office hours, but you can drop in any time be...

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 🎉 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...

IPUMS, University of Minnesota: Research, Science & Technology Institution of the Year | Geospatial World Leadership Awards 2025 IPUMS, University of Minnesota, has been named Research, Science & Technology Institution of the Year at the Geospatial World Leadership Awards 2025.

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...

Neat visualization ⚡#poweredbyIPUMS ATUS 👇

🚨New Data alert! 🚨 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! 🏆 (Did we mention the cash prizes? 💸) www.ipums.org/impact/ipums...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Beyond the PUMA: Supplemental Geography in ACS Microdata from IPUMS USA. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. In Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) from the American Community Survey (ACS), the only sub-state units identified are Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs). The correspondence between PUMAs and other ...

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...

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Revel in the glory 😉

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...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Population Data Virtual Office Hours hosted by IPUMS. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Join us for virtual office hours on Tuesday, November 18 to chat with IPUMS data experts about your questions. Registration is required to attend virtual office hours, but you can drop in any time bet...

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...

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History IPUMS USA Full Count Census Data Collection. Volume 58, Issue 4 of Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History

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.
➡️TODAY: submit a comment on the importance of these data: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
➡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/

Sign the @popassocamerica.bsky.social letter about the CPS Food Security supplement. (Deadline is TOMORROW, 10/22) bsky.app/profile/data...

Submit a comment about the CPS Food Security Supplement to dataindex.us (deadline is TODAY - 10/21) bsky.app/profile/data...

Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

Our home Institute is hiring! They are actively recruiting for a Program Coordinator and a Communications Manager for the newly launching NIA Demography and Economics on Aging Coordinator Center. Learn more about both positions and apply: isrdi.umn.edu/employment

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...

Two out of three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Economics appear in the IPUMS Bibliography. If it's good enough for nobel prize winners... www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

Just sayin' 😉

🌟 New Data alert! 🌟 IPUMS MEPS now includes data from the 2023 sample; over 1,100 variables from the Full Year Consolidated, Condition, Event, Prescribed Medicine, Appendix to the Event, and Pooled Variance files. New variables include data about COVID-19 on the round record. meps.ipums.org/meps/

We are looking forward to the Beyond the Numbers conference at the St. Louis Fed on November 12 - 14. Don't forget the registration deadline is November 5th! Learn all about it at events.stlouisfed.org/event/aaa3bc...

🌟🏠 New household and female data are now available for six countries on IPUMS PMA: Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, and Nigeria. Find it at pma.ipums.org/pma/ 🌟🏠