Raw Census Microdata from IPUMS IPUMS Data Structure Household record (shaded) followed by a person record for each member of the household Relationship.

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Raw Census Microdata from IPUMS

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IPUMS Data Structure

Household record(shaded) followedby a person recordfor each member of the household

Relationship

AgeSexRace

BirthplaceMother’s birthplace

Occupation

For each type ofrecord, columns correspond tospecific variables

The Advantages of Microdata

Combination of all of a person’s characteristics

Characteristics of everyone with whom a person lived

Freedom to make any table you need

Freedom to make models examining multivariaterelationships

Basically, you are only limited by the questions asked in the particular census

For online IPUMS analysis, go to:

http://usa.ipums.org/usa/sda/

http://umn.edu/~ruggles/hist3797