1. Trans-Border access to Census Microdata: The IPUMS-IECM partnership * * * Robert McCaa and Albert Esteve Palós www.ipums.org/international “You have to do due diligence, something to assure yourself that the people you’re giving your data to can be trusted.” --http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/us/09breach.html?hp Trans-Border access to Census Microdata: The IPUMS-IECM partnership * * * Robert McCaa and Albert Esteve Palós Minnesota Population Center and Centre d’Estudis Demografics--Barcelona www.ipums.org/international “You have to do due diligence, something to assure yourself that the people you’re giving your data to can be trusted.” --http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/us/09breach.html?hp www.ipums.org/internationalhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/us/09breach.html?hp www.ipums.org/internationalhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/us/09breach.html?hp

2. no. of slides no. of slides 1. A massive, global partnership of statistical offices, researchers, and their institutions 2. IPUMS-International usage statistics 3. New initiative: trans-border, on-line tabulator 4. Conclusion2 Outline: Trans-Border access to Census Microdata: The IPUMS-IECM partnership

3. 1. A massive, global partnership of statistical offices, researchers, and their institutions 1. A massive, global partnership of statistical offices, researchers, and their institutions See handouts: a. Card for list of current samples and usage statistics b. Pamphlet for list of participating statistical offices

4. IPUMS-International dark green = anonymized, harmonized and disseminating (62 countries, 185 censuses, 397 millon person records) medium green = to be integrated (33 countries, 93 censuses, ~150 mill.) Mollweide projection IPUMS-International: 2011 2011: Cambodia 2008 Egypt 2006 France 2006 Germany (4) Iran 2006 Ireland (8) Malawi (3) etc. 2012: Indonesia (8) Turkey (3), etc.

5. MPC NSI …62+ NSI 1 …. MPC integrates metadata and confidentializes microdata samples IPUMS- International IPUMS-International manages access and entrusts researchers with custom- tailored, SAS, STATA, and SPSS metadata and microdata extracts for any combination of countries, censuses, sub-populations, and variables Trusted researcher …. Trusted researcher receives customized extracts NSI entrusts census metadata and anonymized microdata to MPC 5

6. Uniform Memorandum of Understanding with 90+ National Statistical Office Partners (Appendix A: Italy) 1. Ownership NSO 2. Use Teaching, research and publishing only 3. AuthorizationSubmit an electronic application 4. RestrictionNo commercial use 5. ConfidentialityStrictly prohibited: attempt or allege I.D. 6. SecurityPrevent unauthorized access 7. PublicationPublication permitted—cite IPUMS & NSO 8. ViolationsSanction individual and institution 9. SharingShare integrated microdata and metadata 10. JurisdictionICC Court of Arbitration 11. Order of precedenceFirst, MOU; then, other…

7. Uniform License agreement with researchers for free access regardless of country of birth or residence  Establish individual bona-fides  Institutional affiliation  Describe research proposal and need for access to microdata  Agree to conditions of use 1. Scholarly research and educational purposes 2. Commercial use and re-distribution is prohibited 3. Obey strict rules of confidentiality 4. Secure microdata from 3 rd parties 5. Publications permitted; cite IPUMS and NSO; provide copies 6. Violation: recall of microdata and sanction institution

8. 2. IPUMS Top 20 (Appendix C—excludes UMN) 8 1University of Michigan742 2Columbia University701 3Universitat de Barcelona, Spain615 4Harvard University589 5Inter - American Development Bank499 6Arizona State University495 7National University of Singapore, Singapore467 8World Bank408 9University of California - Berkeley362 10Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil314 11University of Chicago285 12Universidad del Valle, Colombia270 13Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation260 14Princeton University237 15University of Wisconsin - Madison234 16Brown University229 17University of Vienna, Austria229 18University of Pittsburgh227 19University of Delaware213 20El Colegio de México, México214

9. 3. New initiative: trans-border, on-line tabulator Why a data browser?  Fast and convenient tool to explore the contents of the database before making an extract  It prevents users from downloading microdata (if only basic figures are needed) Some caveats:  We are not providing official statistics  Frequencies are not based on 100% population counts  Compared to microdata, cross-tabulated data have les s analyitical power

10. 3. New initiative: trans-border, on-line tabulator Password protected tabulator: www.iecm-project.org

11. Thank you If your NSO is not participating, please contact: rmccaa@umn.edu If you, your colleagues or students are not using integrated census microdata… See: www.ipums.org/international rmccaa@umn.eduwww.ipums.org/internationalrmccaa@umn.eduwww.ipums.org/international