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IPUMS Global Health provides free integrated variables and documentation for three leading global health surveys: Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), and Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA), with nationally representative surveys in over 100 countries. MICS, DHS, and PMA surveys cover many of the same topics and employ similar questions and sampling approaches. Pooling data across these IPUMS collections could extend analyses’ geographic and temporal scope, but differences between the surveys make such pooling labor-intensive and error-prone. In this webinar, we identify the main challenges to combining data across IPUMS Global Health data collections, and we describe ongoing work by IPUMS to increase the three surveys’ interoperability.

IPUMS will be exhibiting at the 2025 AAG Annual Meeting. Visit us in booth 301 in the exhibit hall.

The 2025 UMD Time Use Conference will give members of the growing interdisciplinary time use research community the opportunity to interact and share ideas.

IPUMS will be exhibiting at the PAA 2025 Annual Meeting; stop by our booth (307 & 309) to talk data to us.

We have two workshops that we would like to highlight and encourage IPUMS users to register for:

• Studying Mortality using Harmonized National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality File Data (NHIS-LMF) from IPUMS
  Thursday, April 10 1:00-5:00pm
  • This workshop will highlight a freely-available and high-quality data source for studying population-level trends and consequences in mortality and exploring health inequities by socio-demographic characteristics. Attendees will also learn how to analyze the NHIS-LMF data to generate mortality estimates. NDIRA and IPUMS are sponsoring the workshop for reduced registration fees.
• Leveraging Comprehensive Population Microdata from Multiple Repositories: The Case of the CORESIDENCE Project
  Thursday, April 10 8:00am-12:00pm
  • This workshop will introduce methods for compiling and processing large datasets for demographic research. It will present the CORESIDENCE Project as a case study, which has compiled over 785 million individual records from 196 countries using population data repositories such as IPUMS International, DHS, EU-LFS, MICS, SILC, and various country-specific surveys.

10:00am-11:30am CT
Join us for virtual office hours on Wednesday, April 16 to chat with IPUMS data experts about your questions. Registration is required to attend virtual office hours, but you can drop in any time between 10:00am and 11:30am CT with your questions for the researchers that make IPUMS possible.

About IPUMS Virtual Office Hours: Virtual Office Hours are held quarterly and are a chance to connect IPUMS data experts with IPUMS data users to get their questions answered in a setting similar to a conference exhibit hall, but in an online format. The goal is to provide regular opportunities for face-to-face, personalized support from data experts in a casual atmosphere.

IPUMS will be exhibiting at the SRCD 2025 Biennial Meeting. Visit us in booth 105 in the exhibit hall.

IPUMS is also presenting a professional development session during the conference:

• Free Harmonized Data for Measuring International Child Development with IPUMS Global Health and Census Datasets
  Saturday, May 3 8:30-10:00am

This year’s two-day data training workshop will familiarize participants with full count census data from IPUMS, including linked census data from the IPUMS Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel (MLP), in addition to covering using full count census data with other data sources, geographic variables, as well as restricted versions of the data and restricted linkages to other data sources. The workshop is free, but space is limited. Applications are due April 15. 

The IPUMS Big Microdata Network and the Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA), a collaboration between IPUMS and the University of Minnesota Life Course Center, are proud to sponsor the 2025 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The conference theme is Understanding Health and Population Dynamics through Big Microdata. We look forward to a conference that features multi- and interdisciplinary research and demonstrates the flexibility and power of big microdata for understanding the demographic and health landscape. 

The call for proposals is open through January 31, 2025. Review the call for proposals and submit an abstract.