Getting and Visualizing Worldwide Census and Survey Data

• This 3-hour hands-on session aims to familiarize graduate students and faculty from CU with IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series ) platform and help them in getting data ready for visualization in Tableau using SPSS. It will enable you to tackle research questions on multidisciplinary study of social and environmental phenomena. Questions can be addressed using IPUMS are: How has urbanization spread in developing countries in the fifty years?

  • How many people from India, Rumania, Mexico or South Korea are living abroad?

• Have household arrangements been changing from 1960 to the present? Is this a worldwide trend?

• What are the key determinants of poor health in developing countries? Which are the significant improvements of the last four decades?

• How Americans have been changing their time use among cohorts? Are we working more than in the 70s or 80s?

• What are the differences in the time-use by sex, race and ethnicity, and age? Are there any differences in this respect between Europe, Canada and the US?

Workshop Slides and Handout are attached here.

Data from IPUMS and syntax used in this workshop are on this link.