Raw Census Microdata from IPUMS
IPUMS Data Structure Household record (shaded) followed by a person record for each member of the household Relationship Age Sex Race Birthplace Mother’s birthplace Occupation For each type of record, columns correspond to specific variables
The Advantages of Microdata Combination of all of a person’s characteristics Characteristics of everyone with whom a person lived Freedom to make any table you need Freedom to make models examining multivariate relationships Basically, you are only limited by the questions asked in the particular census
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