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The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center at the
The primary activity of MPC is demographic research; work at the center is divided into eight major themes:
* Large-scale demographic data infrastructure
* Work, family, and time-use
* Historical demography
* Education, labor, and the life-course
* Healthcare access and health disparities
* Census and survey methodology
* Unions and sexuality
* Population and environment
MPC is the producer and distributor of the world's largest demographic data collections.Matthew Sobek; Lara Cleveland; Sarah Flood; Patricia Kelly Hall; Miriam L. King; Steven Ruggles; Matthew Schroeder, "Big Data: Large-Scale Historical Infrastructure from the Minnesota Population Center." Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 44:2 (2011), pages 61–68. These data collections include the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...
. MPC was established in 2000, absorbing two earlier population research organizations. The primary goals of the center are to foster large-scale cross-disciplinary research collaborations and to provide shared infrastructure for demographic research.
The center now has 100 faculty affiliates from 10 University of Minnesota Colleges, over 50 graduate student affiliates and 120 administrative and research staff.
Overview
The primary activity of MPC is demographic research; work at the center is divided into eight major themes:
* Large-scale demographic data infrastructure
* Work, family, and time-use
* Historical demography
* Education, labor, and the life-course
* Healthcare access and health disparities
* Census and survey methodology
* Unions and sexuality
* Population and environment
MPC is the producer and distributor of the world's largest demographic data collections.Matthew Sobek; Lara Cleveland; Sarah Flood; Patricia Kelly Hall; Miriam L. King; Steven Ruggles; Matthew Schroeder, "Big Data: Large-Scale Historical Infrastructure from the Minnesota Population Center." Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 44:2 (2011), pages 61–68. These data collections include the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), the National Historical Geographic Information System
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) is a historical GIS project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all available aggregate United States Census, census information for the United States between Uni ...
(NHGIS), the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP), and the Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS).Pamela J. Johnson, Lynn A. Blewett, Steven Ruggles, Michael E. Davern, and Miriam L. King, “Four Decades of Population Health Data: The Integrated Health Interview Series.” Epidemiology, 19:6 (2008), pages 872–875. Over 40,000 demographic researchers worldwide are registered to use these data collections.
See also
* Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)References
External links
* University of Minnesota {{UMinnesota-stub