1. Welcome IPUMS/IECM-Europe Workshop: Accomplishments, plans and challenges * * * Robert McCaa, Professor of population history University of Minnesota for additional details, please see:

2. Introductions, organization and program
Thank you
CED: Dr. Anna Cabre, Albert Esteve & the IECM staff
INED: Dr. Patrick Festy for hosting Paris meeting & ambitious program of supporting research activities
NSIs: for continued support over past 4 years
New candidate NSIs: Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, and Ukraine
Program (please see the workshop folder): an intensive day
Invited speakers: NSIs, INED, CED (Barcelona)
MPC/CED:
Listen and learn
Demonstrate what has been accomplished: recovery, confidentiality, integration, dissemination
Show the websites and how to make good use of them
Discuss plans and innovations for the 2nd five-year plan of IPUMS-Europe:

3. Introductions, organization and program
Thank you
CED: Dr. Anna Cabre, Albert Esteve & the IECM staff
INED: Dr. Patrick Festy for hosting Paris meeting & ambitious program of supporting research activities
NSIs: for continued support over past 4 years
New candidate NSIs: Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, and Ukraine
Program (please see handouts): an intensive day
Invited speakers: NSIs, INED, CED (Barcelona)
MPC/CED:
Listen and learn
Demonstrate what has been accomplished: recovery, confidentiality, integration, dissemination
Show the websites and how to make good use of them
Discuss plans and innovations for a 2nd five-year plan of IPUMS-Europe:

4. Outline no. of slides 1. Introductions & Appreciations 2
2. Accomplishments—celebrate a success far beyond…
Goals, objectives, milestones, accomplishments 4
Microdata inventoried and integrated 4
Confidentiality, Security and Access 5
3. IPUMS/IECM Europe II: plans and challenges 2
Censuses to integrate, 2010 round, tabulator, GIS, Laboratories of High Security
4. Invitation to 57th ISI (Durban, Aug ’09) 1

5. Workshop goals
Evaluate integrations to date: 10 countries, 31 censuses
Discuss plans to complete the remaining integrations: 5+ countries, 20+ censuses
Consider new initiatives
Tabulator
GIS files corresponding to the microdata
High Security Laboratory for % count microdata; elderly over-sample, aging project
Improve methods and procedures of the IPUMS/IECM projects
Reflect on the obstacles and challenges for the 2010 census round.
Respond to doubts, questions, or concerns regarding any aspect of the collaboratory

6. Remember: objectives of IPUMS
Preserve census microdata and documentation for all the countries in the world
Integrate microdata and metadata
Disseminate--without cost--extracts of samples with the corresponding documentation to researchers

7. IPUMS Milestones 1995: IPUMS-USA first release of integrated microdata
IPUMS-USA continues: ACS samples
1999: IPUMS-International funded
st International release: 7 countries, including Colombia and Mexico
2006 release: 20 countries, 63 censuses,
2008 release: 35 countries, 111 censuses
~263 million person records
Two thousand users
2013 release: ~60 countries, ~200 censuses Note: microdata are already entrusted to MPC

8. Some members of the IPUMS team (2008)
Steven Ruggles, inventor of IPUMS, Professor of History, and Director of the Minnesota Population Center
(Not present: computer gurus, some researchers, and others who were too busy to make time for taking a photo!)

9. Inventory of census microdata archived by region and decade (% of censuses conducted)
Region/continent
Countries
2000s
1990s
1980s
1970s
  1960s
Latin America 21
100%
89%
81%
72%
North America 27
91%
64%
24% 8%
Africa 58
15%
22% 
25% 
15% 
2% 
Asia 44 ?%
54%
31%
30%
13%
Europe 46
67%
55%
41%
Pacific (pob>.5m) 7
43%
29%
Note: cases confirmed by the corresponding official statistical institute. Some datasets remain to be certified. Some countries have not responded to the invitation to inventory their stocks of data. Source:

10. Integration: IPUMS-Europe in global context dark green = already integrated (35 countries, 111 censuses, 263 millon person records) green = to be integrated (39 countries, 103 censuses, 150 mill.)
Mollweide projection

11. IPUMS – Europe: past, present and future
Past: Thank you!
15 statistical offices of Europe are cooperating with the IPUMS/IECM projects.
Assembled/Recovered: 50 sets of microdata & documentation
Present, samples of 10 countries (31 censuses) of Europe:
integrated in the IPUMS/IECM systems &
Austria (4), Belarus (1), France (5+1), Greece (4), Hungary (4), Netherlands (3), Portugal (3), Romania (2+1), Spain (3), and UK (2+ ?)
Integrated microdata, dynamic metadata, integrated tabulator
Future: :

12. IPUMS – Europe: past, present and future
Past: Thank you!
Present , samples of 10 countries (31 censuses) of Europe.
Future: :
2009/10:
Czech Republic (3+?), Germany (8), Switzerland (4), Slovenia (1), Turkey (2), and ???
New candidate countries: ???
Additional censuses from: France, Romania
Sample error metadata for each census in database
Censuses of the 2010 round (entrusted before 2014)
New features: GIS, Elderly over-sample, High Security Laboratories with integrated microdata and metadata
Extended network: more countries, organizations (EuroStat?), research centers

13. IPUMS Statistical Confidentiality, Security and Access
Cited by UN-ECE as “good practice”
On-site inspection: the Dennis Trewin Report

14. Why was IPUMS cited as “good practice” by the UN-ECE (2007, Annex 23, pp )?

15. Good practices (see annex 23):
High level of confidence and transparency between the researchers (users) and the national statistical institutes
The conditions of use are well defined
Sanctions for misuse are clearly spelled out
Good use is assured by both juridical and administration mechanisms to prevent violations
Sanctions are imposed no only against those who misuse the data but also against their institutions.
The data are anonymized by highly efficient technical means

16. The standard agreement between National Statistical Institutes and the University of Minnesota

17. “The best practice for an international repository of microdata”
Statistical confidentiality and security: see the on-site review by Dennis Trewin (click “Trewin Report”)
“The best practice for an international repository of microdata”
“The security of IPUMS is first class…the standard of the best national statistical offices”
“in full compliance with the principles and recommendations of the ECE”

18. 3. IPUMS-Europe II, 2010-14: plans
Conclude the integration of the censuses of the remaining countries in the region
Incorporate samples for the 2010 round
Add digital boundary files at the second administrative level
Facilitate pre-analysis with an on-line tabulator
Construct Laboratories of High Security

19. IPUMS-Europe II, 2010-14: invitation
Confirm participation in IPUMS-Europe II
Facilitate copies of digital boundary files
In time, make available census microdata and documentation for the 2010 round
Begin discussing participation in the IPUMS integrated high security laboratory (2012+)
Adopt advanced security measures
High density microdata (25-100%)
Siting:
MPC, national partners only?
Eurostat?
Other academic?

20. 4. IPUMS at the 57th ISI (Durban, Aug 16-21, 2009) http://www. statssa
IPUMS-NSI Workshop (Sat, Aug 15)
STCPM session: cross-national microdata
IPUMS-Users Workshop
IPUMS Funding for delegates from developing country

21. Thank you!! rmccaa@umn.edu