st: Fwd: FW: IPUMS - An Overview and Live Demonstration - Jan. 28

[Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com>]

Somebody was asking about access to the census data. This may be the
best way to figure that out.

-- Stas Kolenikov, PhD, PStat (ASA, SSC)
-- Senior Survey Statistician, Abt SRBI
-- Opinions stated in this email are mine only, and do not reflect the
position of my employer
-- http://stas.kolenikov.name


Webinar: Overview and Demonstration of IPUMS
Date: January 28, 2014, 2:30 pm – 4 pm EST
Presenter: Katie Genadek, Minnesota Population Center, University of
Minnesota This webinar will cover the Integrated Public Use Microdata
Series (IPUMS), the world’s largest collection of publicly available
individual level census data. These data include U.S. decennial Census
and American Community Survey data from 1850 through the present, and
Census data from more than 70 countries. We will explain how the
datasets were created and integrated, demonstrate how they can be
obtained free of charge through the web-based extraction system, and
show how to analyze these data in a statistical package and over the
web. For more information on the IPUMS, please visit www.ipums.org.
The webinar will consist of the following:
•                Overview of IPUMS_USA
•                Brief mention of other IPUMS data projects
•                IPUMS features
•                What you can do with microdata
Questions
•                A live Demo of IPUMS-USA website and extract system
Questions
•                Downloading an extract on your computer
•                Open data in a stats package
•                Simple tabulation in stats package
Questions

Webinar Topic: IPUMS
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Time: 2:30 pm, EST
Meeting Number: 742 460 554
Meeting Password: PUMS

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