Data Infrastructure

As a research scientist at the Minnesota Population Center, I developed new family interrelationship variables for modern IPUMS US data projects (CPS, IHIS, ACS, and Census) that accurately represent diverse and complex family types, including families headed by same-sex couples. The new spouse/partner location variable reports both same-sex and different-sex couples. I expanded the parental location variables to include children who have two parents of the same sex.

To learn more about the family interrelationship variables, you may find this summary and this post helpful. A detailed paper on the methodology behind developing the family interrelationship variables is available here.