Minnesota Population Center
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The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center at the University of Minnesota
. 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.
The primary activity of MPC is demographic research; work at the center is divided into eight major themes:
MPC is the producer and distributor of the world's largest demographic data collections. These data collections include the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
(IPUMS), the National Historical Geographic Information System
(NHGIS), the North Atlantic Population Project
(NAPP), and the Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS). Over 40,000 demographic researchers worldwide are registered to use these data collections.
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
. 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.
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. These data collections include the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
IPUMS
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series is the world's largest individual-level population database. IPUMS consists of microdata samples from United States and international census records...
(IPUMS), the National Historical Geographic Information System
National Historical Geographic Information System
The National Historical Geographic Information System is a historical GIS project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all available aggregate census information for the United States between 1790 and 2000...
(NHGIS), the North Atlantic Population Project
North Atlantic Population Project
The North Atlantic Population Project is a collaboration of historical demographers in Britain, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden to produce a massive census microdata collection for the North Atlantic Region in the late-nineteenth century...
(NAPP), and the Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS). Over 40,000 demographic researchers worldwide are registered to use these data collections.