Users and Uses of IPUMS International Data

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Users and Uses of IPUMS International Data

• Presented by Dr. Miriam King

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Facts about Users

• As of late June, 2005, 934 applicants, 578
  approved users (62 approved)
• Users drawn from 41 countries
• Users drawn from 283 institutions

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Countries with the largest number of users (in
rank order)

• United States
• Colombia indicates that
  countrys data
• Canada currently
  available to users
• United Kingdom through IPUMS-I
• France
• Brazil
  Conclusion Scholars within
• Switzerland collaborating
  countries are
• Germany among the
  largest users of
• Mexico IPUMS-I
  data.
• Spain
• Kenya These 12
  countries represent
• China 89 percent
  of registered users.

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Geographic Range of Other Users

• Europe Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
  Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway,
  Russia, Sweden
• Latin America Argentina, Chile, Panama, Peru,
  Venezuela
• Asia Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia,
  Singapore
• Other Australia, Egypt, Israel, South Africa,
  Uganda

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Users Disciplines

• Economics (39)
• Demography (26)
• Sociology (12)
• Public Policy (6)
• History (4)
• Other (e.g., Geography, Public Health, Political
  Science) (13)

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Users Status

• Student 52 percent
• Faculty 21 percent
• Researcher 17 percent
• Non-academic researcher 8 percent
• Support staff 2 percent
• Note While most student users are grad
  students, substantial numbers of undergrads have
  used data for senior theses or in quantitative
  methods courses.

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Majority use data from more than one country

• 1 country (39 percent)
• 2 countries (24 percent)
• 3 countries (10 percent)
• 4 countries (6 percent)
• 5 countries (3 percent)
• 6-8 countries (17 percent)

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Within countries, users represent a large number
of institutions

• United States (134 institutions)
• France (16 institutions)
• UK (13 institutions)
• Brazil (13 institutions)
• Canada (12 institutions)
• Germany (8 institutions)
• Spain (6 institutions)

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Most users are from universities many
organizations represented

• International organizations (e.g., ILO, WHO,
  World Bank, Inter-American Development Fund,
  United Nations)
• National statistical agencies (e.g., Brazil,
  China, Kenya, Colombia, France, Canada, U.S.)
• National govt agencies (e.g., Kenyan Ministry of
  Health, U.S. National Institute on Aging)
• Other (e.g., NBER, World Agroforestry Center,
  International Poverty Center, IIASA)

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High demand for European data

• France as an example
• Thirty-four percent of users requested French
  data.
• Of users from within France, 65 percent used
  French data.

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Some examples of data use

• Make broad cross-national comparisons
• Compare a phenomenon in two similar countries
• Study change over time in one country
• Study regional differences within one country
• Trace cohorts over time
• Check representativeness of survey data against
  census results
• Use in the classroom, student exercises
• Analyze immigration via sending and receiving
  countries data
• Develop demographic profiles of countries and
  population subgroups
• Empirically test existing theoretical models
• Use data to develop new models and methods
• Indirectly estimate fertility and mortality

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Outreach efforts to date

• MPC display at academic conferences
• Conference presentations
• Journal publications
• Books and book chapters
• Seminars and lectures
• Specialized conferences
• Announcements to IPUMS-USA users

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Questions for Conference Participants

• What other types of outreach efforts could and
  should be made?
• What outreach efforts would be especially
  effective in reaching European scholars and other
  potential users of European data?