Many thanks to contributors* at the our Census Microdata Workshop held in conjunction with the IAOS 2026 Conference. A great opportunity to share census experiences & discuss the importance of census microdata! *National statistics office reps from Georgia, Ghana, Kosovo, Turkey!

We are deeply saddened by the passing of our cherished  friend & colleague, Dr. Alphonse MacDonald. He was a loyal friend & proudly embraced his title as IPUMS Ambassador. His warmth, intellect, & boundless energy were a source of inspiration. Alphonse will be profoundly missed. @ipums.bsky.social

We are honored to have played a part in data preparation for this excellent resource! pdp.unfpa.org#/ @ipums.bsky.social

Happy Lunar New Year from @ipums.bsky.social

Deborah Levison & Anna Bolgrien explore innovative ways to capture children’s authentic perspectives on work, school, and well-being. An important read for anyone working on child well-being, research methods, or development policy. @ipums.bsky.social theconversation.com/childrens-vi...

Happy 2026 from IPUMS International at the snowy University of Minnesota! Many thanks to our 100+ national statistical institute partners who make it possible for researchers, policy makers, & educators to access harmonized census and survey microdata for learning and discovery! @ipums.bsky.social

New paper collaboration from IPUMS MICS and UNICEF! Harmonized Data from Household Surveys on the Status and Well-being of Children, Adolescents, and Their Families: MICS and IPUMS MICS shs.cairn.info/journal-popu... @ipums.bsky.social @unicef.org

Nouvel article rédigé en collaboration par IPUMS MICS et l’UNICEF! shs.cairn.info/revue-popula... @unicef.org @ipums.bsky.social

Off to a great start here at the Data-Intensive Research Conference! @umnlifecourse.bsky.social

Have you seen the IPUMS Research Award winners yet? 🏆The awards showcase the large range of questions and policies that can be measured, studied, and understood using IPUMS. Check it out at www.ipums.org/ipums-center...

Muchas gracias al DANE por la gentil invitación a IPUMS para participar en el Foro Transformar Colombia con datos! Un honor ser parte del panel con colegas del INEGI y del INEC conversando sobre desafíos y lecciones de los censos. @ipums.bsky.social

@ipums.bsky.social wins the2025 Geospatial World Leadership Awards for Research, Science & Technology Institution of the Year! geospatialworld.net/news/press-r... #geospatialworld #ipumsgh @ipumsnighs

Looking for a reason to celebrate #WorldHappinessDay? Open, free access to quality data empowers informed decisions resulting in higher satisfaction, a sense of autonomy, better outcomes, advanced understanding, greater opportunities--that's happiness! @ipums.bsky.social

Learn more about the NEW census and labor force survey DATA now available @ipums.bsky.social ---including harmonized migration variables. blog.popdata.org/internationa... Many thanks to the national statistical offices of Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Mongolia, Mozambique, and the Philippines!

@ipums.bsky.social was honored to host a visit from Somalia National Bureau of Statistics Director General Dr. Abdisalam Mohamed. We are looking forward to a future partnership with #SNBS.

¡Muchas gracias al DANE por la continuada cooperación al confiarnos una nueva muestra microdatos censales anonimizados que ampliará la serie de datos de Colombia para la comunidad académica! @ipums.bsky.social

Very productive exchange at #UN56SC with leadership from Statistics Mauritius to incorporate new data from the 2020 census round to @ipums.bsky.social #statsmauritius @UNStats

We celebrate and welcome our partnership with the Cabo Verde Instituto Nacional de Estatistica. The addition of this data will be a great contribution to the global research community. Muito obrigado ao nosso novo parceiro. @INECV_Difusao @ipums.bsky.social

We are honored to be at the 56th Session of the UN Statistical Commission 4-7 March 2025 and with the some 600 statisticians from across the world who have come together at UN Headquarters in New York to ensure better data, better lives. @UNDESA @SustDev @ipums.bsky.social @UNStats #UN56SC

Celebrating #InternationalMotherLanguageDay with a cool map showing the diversity of language in Western Africa! Thank you to the national statistical offices of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. @ipums.bsky.social

Celebrating the power of census microdata- used to display the linguistic diversity in southern Africa. Thank you to our national statistical office partners who entrusted the data! @StatsSA @zamstats @statsbots #MozambiqueINE #Lovedata25 @lovedataweek.bsky.social @ipums.bsky.social

@ipums.bsky.social users all over the world are optimizing access to user-friendly data to produce powerful research and evidence-based policies. #lovedataweek25 @lovedataweek.bsky.social

How are you celebrating #LoveDataWeek25? @lovedataweek.bsky.social

Register for #PAA2025 and sign up for the April 10 workshop Leveraging Comprehensive Population Microdata from Multiple Repositories: The Case of the Coresidence Project for hands-on experience accessing, manipulating, & visualizing microdata from large datasets! @ipums.bsky.social

Happy New Year to partners, supporters, and data users! We send a special thanks to the national statistical offices who entrusted data to @ipums.bsky.social in 2024. Wishing you all a healthy, happy 2025!

Congratulations Authors Andres Felipe Castro Torres and Edith Yolanda Gutierrez-Vazquez on being awarded The Sociological Review Foundation's 2023 Journal Article of the Year! "Power relations and fertility in Latin America" is #poweredbyIPUMS. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

¡Gracias a todos los que participaron en el taller previo a la conferencia (#ALAP) de dos días Escuela Familia, parentesco y hogares en América Latina y el Caribe en Bogotá! @cedemografia.bsky.social @ipums.bsky.social

Excited to connect at the 6th Asia Population Association Conference in the vibrant city of Kathmandu! Can't wait to see you there and exchange ideas #APA2024 #Kathmandu #PopulationStudies @ipums.bsky.social

Thank you @NSO_Nepal for your hospitality and for your partnership--allowing researchers and policy makers to access the 2001 and 2011 Nepal census data via the largest collection of free-use harmonized census & survey microdata in the world. #APA2024 @ipums.bsky.social

IPUMS is hiring for a senior data analyst to work on creating more linked US census data. Great opportunity to contribute to the future of large scale life course data for social science research. Join us. Share the word https://www.ipums.org/about/jobs

If you are a fan of IPUMS Global Health data like IPUMS-DHS be sure to check out IPUMS-MICS. The extract system has over 900 variables from 88 countries, drawn from over 200 samples and 1000+ datasets! mics.ipums.org/mics/ Please share widely.

Hey Census heads out there: What's your preferred method of pulling out small-geography averages from ACS? IPUMS NHGIS? Something in R or Stata like getcensus? Social Explorer? I've got an undergrad honors student looking for county-level data over time

Feliz de compartir una nota de investigación en la Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População sobre la relación de la diferencia de edad entre cónyuges y el nivel educativo en 3 países latinoamericanos, utilizando muestras censales de #Ipums. 📝http://dx.doi.org/10.20947/S0102-3098a0254 #demography

I have all these maps of local prosecutor elections at the precinct level, with IPUMS demographic/economic data, not to mention crime and arrest data. So I want to try to start doing something a bit more careful with saying what explains these patterns.