Geospatial Analysis of Population Demographics and Traffic Density in MinneapolisIntroductionThis interactive web map provides a geospatial analysis of population distribution and traffic density for the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. By integrating demographic data at the census tract level with real-time traffic information, the application serves as a critical tool for urban planning, transportation management, and sociological research.Data Visualization and SymbologyThe map employs distinct color schemes to represent the core datasets, allowing for intuitive visual analysis: Traffic Density: The city's road network is symbolized using a color gradient to indicate traffic volume. Segments rendered in deep red represent a high traffic density index, signifying areas of significant vehicular congestion. This transitions to a light yellow for segments experiencing lower traffic flow. Population Density: The demographic landscape is visualized using a green color ramp applied to census tract polygons. Dark green shades correspond to areas with a high population concentration, whereas lighter green shades denote regions with a lower population density. Analytical Utility and ApplicationsThe juxtaposition of these datasets reveals spatial correlations between residential density and transportation bottlenecks. This allows for data-driven inquiry into key urban challenges. The patterns visualized can help city planners and transportation authorities identify specific corridors where infrastructure investment could be most effective. Strategic improvements in these areas have the potential to optimize traffic flow, reduce commuter travel times, and decrease vehicle fuel consumption and emissions, thereby enhancing the overall sustainability and livability of Minneapolis.Interactive Features and Data ExplorationUsers are encouraged to engage with the map's interactive features for a deeper understanding of the data: Layers and Legend: Utilize the "Layers" and "Legend" tools to deconstruct the map's composition and understand the specific values associated with the color symbology. Pop-up Information: Click on individual census tracts or road segments to activate pop-up windows. These provide detailed attribute information, such as total population counts, demographic breakdowns, household income statistics, and spatial relationship metrics like nearest neighbor analysis. This application is built upon a foundational demographic data layer for Minneapolis and is enhanced by the integration of a dynamic traffic layer from the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Dwelling and person

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Every separate and independent structure that has been constructed or converted for use as temporary or permanent housing. This includes any class of fixed or mobile shelter used as a place of lodging at the time of enumeration. A dwelling can be a) a private house, apartment, floor in a house, room or group of rooms, ranch, etc. designed to give lodging to one person or a group of people or b) a boat, vehicle, railroad car, barn, shed, or any other type of shelter occupied as a place of lodging at the time of enumeration. - Households: All the occupying members of a family or private dwelling that live together as family. In most cases, a household is made up of a head of the family, relatives of this person (wife or partner, children, grand-children, nieces and nephews, etc.), close friends, guests, lodgers, domestic employees and all other occupants. Households with five or fewer lodgers are considered private,but households with six or more lodgers are considered a non-family group. - Group quarters: Accommodation for a group of people who are not usually connected by kinship ties who live together for reasons of discipline, healthcare, education, mlitary activity, religion, work or other dwellings such as reform schools, boarding schools, barracks, hopsitals, guest houses, nursing homes, workers camps, etc.

Universe

Population in private and communal housing

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by the Minnesota Population Center

SAMPLE UNIT: Household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 268,248

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Single record that includes housing and population questionnaires

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Dwelling, home, and person

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: Yes - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: No

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Any room or set of rooms and their components that occupy a building or a structurally separate section of the building that, due to construction of modification, is intended for human habitation and is not being used for any other purpose at the time of enumeration. Any fixed or mobile structure where a person or group of people habitually reside is also considered a dwelling. - Households: A person or group of people, related or not, that a share a common food budget. A household can also be constituted by a single person. - Group quarters: Accommodation for a group a people generally not connected by kinship ties who share housing for reasons of work, healthcare, studies, military activities, religion, discipline, etc. If within a collective dwelling there are separate rooms where staff live with their families, forming a private household, you must enumerate this household using a new private household questionnaire.

Universe

Resident population in private and communal housing

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by the Minnesota Population Center

SAMPLE UNIT: Dwelling

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 328,425

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Single record with questionnaires of housing, home, and population. In special communal dwellings (nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, detention facility, foster homes) the brief questionnaire was applied (sex, age, highest completed level of education and number of live births).

In 2023, around 9.3 percent of Minnesota's population lived below the poverty line. This accounts for persons or families whose collective income in the preceding 12 months was below the national poverty level of the United States.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Dwelling

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: Yes - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Any independent premises within the total installation that has been equipped to lodge persons and permits them to reside there for many reasons (they are watchpersons or guards of an industry for example). - Group quarters: Those places, buildings and houses in which the sick, police, prisoners for various crimes, young or children delinquents, workers, students, religious persons, the elderly or other groups that carry out or live together under the same roof. These places, buildings or houses in which groups of persons live without family ties between them, or that is, who being NON FAMILY groups, have been designated by the government, by a private company or other institution, to resolve problems or social necessities like health, discipline, security, social adaptation, work in places far from the family dwelling, old age, being orphaned, poverty, study or religious life, etc.

Universe

All live individuals at midnight June 25, 1995

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics and Censuses

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by the Minnesota Population Center

SAMPLE UNIT: Household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 435,728

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

A single enumeration form requested information on the dwelling and household, and a second enumeration form requested information of the individuals.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Dwellings, households and persons

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: yes - Vacant units: yes - Households: yes - Individuals: yes - Group quarters: yes - Special populations: no

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: A space or structure delimited by walls and roofs of any material with an independent entrance that is used as lodging. Any place where one or more persons live is considered a dwelling even if it was not intended for habitation when constructed. - Households: Person or a group of people that share their living expenses and reside under the same roof. - Group quarters: A dwelling that is intended for habitation by a group of people without family ties who live together due to health, work, religion, study, specific discipline, as guests, etc.

Universe

Habitual residents: individuals who had resided in the country for six or more months at the time of enumeration or who intended at the time of enumeration to reside in the country for six or more months. Foreign diplomats and their families were not enumerated.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: Centro Latinoamericano de Demografia (CELADE)

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th household given a random start. Sample drawn by MPC.

SAMPLE UNIT: Households

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10.0%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 943,784

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Single enumeration form containing six sections: I) Geographic location; II) Dwelling characteristics; III) Household identification; IV) Household characteristics; V) List of Household members; VI) Characteristics of permanent household members. The form was processed by optical reader.

Response rate

COVERAGE: Unknown

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Dwelling

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: Yes - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Not specified - Households: A group of people, bound by marriage, kinship, affinity, adoption, guardianship or emotional ties, who are partners and live in the same Municipality. - Group quarters: Not specified

Universe

All population who reside in Italy and all persons who do not live in Italy but are present at the time of the census

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 20th dwelling.

SAMPLE UNIT: Household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 5%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 2,990,739

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

A single booklet of Household Form with five sections: 1) List A: household members, 2) List B: individuals who do not usually reside in the accommodation, 3) Section I, information on the dwelling (for all persons in List A and List B), 4) Section II, information on the individuals who usually reside in the accomodation (persons on List A), and 5) Section III, information on individuals who do not usually reside in the dwelling (persons on List A). Section I to III are de-identified with names removed.

Response rate

COVERAGE: 100%

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Household

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes - Special populations: Yes (Homeless)

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: A dwelling unit may be defined as any structure; permanent, semi permanent or traditional where people live and sleep. It may be a hut, house, stores with a sleeping room or rooms at the back or sides, a shelter of reeds/straw such as those used by fishermen, or any other structure where people sleep. - Households: A household consists of one or more persons, related or unrelated, who live together and make common provision for food. They regularly take all their food from the same pot, and/or share the same grain store (nkhokwe) or pool their incomes for the purpose of purchasing food. Persons in a household may live in one or more dwelling units. - Group quarters: Collective household refers to a large group of people who live together and sharing common facilities such as kitchen, toilet, lounge, and dormitories. In such situation the residents may not have complete independent quarters that qualify as housing units as their living quarters during the census period.

Universe

All persons present in Malawi at the time of census. These include foreigners with acknowledged status as refugees, and citizens of Malawi who at the time of census are absent temporarily (less than 6 months). However, diplomatic personnel of the foreign diplomatic and consular representative offices, foreign military personnel and their family members, and the members and representatives of the international organizations and communities located in Malawi are not enumerated.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Statistical Office

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by the Minnesota Population Center

SAMPLE UNIT: Household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 1,343,078

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Census questionnaire containing questions on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population, dwelling unit characteristics, emigration, and maternal and general deaths

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Household

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: Not identified - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes (collective households)

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Not applicable - Households: Domestic household: A group of individuals who are either relatives or non-relatives, live in one residential unit and are registerered as one household. Collective household: A group of individuals who live in the same dormitory in a college (or school) or in the same living quarters for staff and workers in a factory or other organization. - Group quarters: Unknown

Universe

All individuals who have Chinese nationality and reside in China, personnel of embassies, consulates and other missions in foreign countries and staff, experts, students and trainees abroad.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Bureau of Statistics

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample

SAMPLE UNIT: Households

SAMPLE FRACTION: 1%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 10,039,191

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

A single questionnaire for regular and collective households.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Households

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes - Special populations: No

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Buildings or any constructed structures including boat, houseboat, or truck in which a person can live. - Households: A household refers to one person or many persons who live in the same house or the same constructed structure. They seek for, consume, and utilize all facilities together for their benefit, regardless of whether they are related or not. - Group quarters: Households that consist of several people living together because of certain rules or regulations indicating that those people must live together or need to stay together for their own benefits. These includes institutions and other collective households.

Universe

All Thai nationals residing in Thailand on the census date; foreign civilians who normally reside in Thailand or who temporarily reside in Thailand 3 months or more before the census date; any individual who has normally resided in Thailand but was away for military training, sailing, or temporarily travelling abroad; and Thai civil/military/diplomatic officers and their families who normally have their offices in foreign countries.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Statistical Office

SAMPLE DESIGN: The sample was enumerated with the Long Form questionnaires, and was selected with different sampling fractions from 9 strata. The strata are municipal and non-municipal areas in the four major regions(Central, North, Northeastern, South) with Bangkok as a separate regions. The sample was selected in a two-stage process. In the first stage, enumeration districts (EDs) were selected within each of the 9 strata. For Bangkok and other municipal areas, 40% of all EDs were selected. For non-municipal areas, 20% of EDs were selected. In the second stage, households were selected within EDs with different selection rules for private and collective households. For private households, 25% of households in Bangkok and non-municipal areas were selected, while 5% of households in other municipal areas were selected. For collective households, a 5% sample is selected across all strata.

SAMPLE UNIT: Household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 1%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 485,100

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The population was enumerated with Form 2. There are two types of Form 2: (i) the Short Form which is used to collect information on 10 population questions and 3 housing questions; and (ii) the Long Form which contains 26 population questions and 16 housing questions. Part 1 of the Long Form identifies the household; Part 2 contains population questions; and Part 3 contains housing questions which are asked only of private households. One-fifth of the households and population in Bangkok and non-municipal areas were enumerated with the long-form while all households and population in the other municipal areas were enumerated with the long-form.

As of March 10, 2023, the death rate from COVID-19 in the state of New York was 397 per 100,000 people. New York is one of the states with the highest number of COVID-19 cases.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Households

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: Yes - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes - Special populations: Yes - homeless

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: A dwelling unit is the unit actually occupied by the household. - Households: A household is defined as a group of persons who normally eat and live together. If a man has two or more wives and they and their children live and eat together, they form one household. - Group quarters: Sometimes groups of people live together but cannot be said to belong to a household. Persons in hospitals, colleges, barracks and prisons are examples.

Universe

All persons who are in Uganda the night of the census, regardless of their nationality.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

SAMPLE DESIGN: A 10% systematic sample of questionnaire records (households and institutions) was taken. These could have been households or institutions. A uniform weight of 10 should thus be attached to each record and the resultant population will 99.98% of the non-sample population.

SAMPLE UNIT: Questionnaire record

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 2,497,449

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Unique census questionnaire (no specific name)

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: Yes - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: The dwelling unit is a building or a collection of buildings used for living by a household. - Households: Two types of households are distinguished. The ordinary household is composed of a collection of people, related or not, who recognize the authority of a single individual who is called "head of household", and who live under the same roof or in the same compound and take their daily meals together. A person living alone, who provides for his or her own basic needs consitutues a household. The collective household is composed of a group of persons without a priori family relationship, who live together within a single institution for reasons of health, study, work, travel, punishment or other. - Group quarters: The collective household is composed of a group of persons without a priori family relationship, who live together within a single institution for reasons of health, study, work, travel, punishment or other.

Universe

The entire population living in the country's national territory at a given point in time.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Census Bureau, Popular Revolutionary Republic of Guinea

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic Sample of every 10th dwelling with a random start, drawn by MPC

SAMPLE UNIT: Dwelling

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 729,071

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

"The Household questionnaire" and "The Identification and Numbering of Households and Buildings Form"

Response rate

COVERAGE: Not specified

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Person, household, and dwelling

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: Yes - Vacant units: Yes - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: A dwelling is a building or independent building unit that is built, adapted or converted so that it may be inhabited by one or more people, either permanently or temporarily. It should have direct or independent access from the street or through public-use spaces, like hallways, patios, or stairs. It is normally separated by walls and a roof so that the people who live in it may separate themselves from others for cooking and eating, sleeping, and protection from the environment. - Households: A household is a person or group of persons, related or not, who occupy all or part of a dwelling. They share at least the main meals and provide for their other basic needs from a common budget - Group quarters: A collective dwelling is intended for habitation by persons, usually without family ties, who are subject to administrative rules and who live together for reasons of education, health, religion, work, or tourism, among others. Among collective dwellings there are 2 varieties: institutional and non-institutional.

Universe

All persons residing in the country.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics and Computing

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample was drawn from the 15% stratified sample developed by the statistical office.

SAMPLE UNIT: Household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 2,745,895

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

A single form with three sections for the dwelling, household, and individuals

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Household

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: No - Special populations: Floating population [Population flottante]: these are the homeless people, who live anywhere, near the market places, in the factories, in shacks or even on the pavement, etc.

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: A compound is a set of buildings, enclosed or not by a wall or by any other type of fence or paling. In some case it could be reduced to a single building (single hut, house with one or several apartments, or other cases), including a series of distinct dwelling units. Generally, it is placed under the authority of a compound head [Chef de Concession: C.C.]. A compound may include one or several household. - Households: A set of persons, related by blood or not, who live under the same roof and share part or all of their resources to cover their basic needs, in particular lodging and food. These persons are called the household members, take generally their meals together, and recognize the authority of a sole and same person, called the Household Head [Chef de ménage: C.M.]. This concept translates to the words the words ?njël? in Wolof, ?ngank? in Sereer, ?hirande? in Pulaar, and ?siitik? in Diola.

Universe

All persons living in the national territory

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Statistical Office

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by the Minnesota Population Center

SAMPLE UNIT: Household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 994,562

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The questionnaire is divided into six sections. Section A is geographic identification of the household. Section B includes questions on the individual characteristics. Section C includes questions on the deads the occurred in the household last year. Section D includes questions on out-migrants who left the household in the past five years. Section D contains housing questions, and Section F contains questions on poverty.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Dwelling

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: Yes - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes - Special populations: Homeless

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: All places defined by walls and roofs where one or more people live regularly, that is where they sleep, cook and protect themselves from the elements. Also people can enter and leave the mentioned without passing through another house, having direct access from the street, passage, path or passing through common areas such as patios, hallways, corridors or stairs. - Households: Group of people who live as a family - Group quarters: This is a place or building where a group of people without family ties resides and share the space for reasons of lodging, health, education, military, religion, old age, orphanhood, etc. This includes hotels, boarding houses, guest houses, hospitals, homes for the elderly, internment schools, hospices, jails, etc.

Universe

All people who live in the country and all households nationally.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses

SAMPLE DESIGN: Stratified systematic sample.

SAMPLE UNIT: Households

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 510,760

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Census questionnaire containing questions on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population, dwelling unit characteristics, emigration, and mortality.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Household

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes (institutional) - Special populations: Yes (homeless)

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: A building is generally a single structure on the ground. It is covered by a roof and usually enclosed within external walls or with common dividing walls with adjacent buildings. In some areas the very nature of construction of houses is such that there may not be any wall. For example a conical roof almost touches the ground and an entrance is also provided and there will not be any wall as such. Such structures should be treated as buildings. - Households: A household is a group of persons who commonly live together and would take their meals from a common kitchen unless the exigencies of work prevented any of them from doing so. - Group quarters: An institutional household is a household of unrelated persons like boarding houses, messes, hostels, residential hotels, rescues homes, jails, pagodas etc. It should be noted that if a group of persons who are unrelated to each other live in a building/structure, but do not have their meals from a common kitchen, then they would not constitute an Institutional household.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning

SAMPLE DESIGN: Stratified systematic sample.

SAMPLE UNIT: Households

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 1,141,254

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Form A: Houselist and Form B: Household Questionnaire. The latter for the information used here.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Dwelling

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: Not available in microdata sample - Vacant units: Not available in microdata sample - Households: Not available in microdata sample - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Any fixed or mobile, structurally separate or independent premises or enclosure that has been built or made, converted or prepared for the purpose of permanently or temporarily housing a census household. - Households: Census Family.- A group of people, generally related, who live together under a family system. It is made up in most cases by a Head of Family, their relatives (spouse or consensual union partner, children, grandchildren, etc.), close friends, guests, domestic servants and any occupant who lives in the same dwelling and shares the same food. Any person who lives alone in a family dwelling also makes up a census family. - Group quarters: Unrelated Group- A group of generally unrelated people who live together for reasons of discipline, health, teaching, religious or military life, work, or other reasons and who reside in non-family dwellings such as: hospitals, clinics, hotels, guesthouses, jails, reformatories, barracks, convents, etc.

Universe

Everyone who spent the night of November 24 to November 25 in a Dwelling in Ecuador. Including individuals that spent the night away for special reasons (e.g. away for a party or a funeral, physicians, guards).

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: Celade

SAMPLE UNIT: Individual

SAMPLE FRACTION: 3%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 136,443

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Single enumeration form that requested information on dwellings and individuals.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Dwelling

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: Yes - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: No

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: A building or part of a building constructed for one household only, with one or more independent entrance leading to the public road without passing through another housing unit. - Households: One person or a group of persons with or without a family relationship who live in the same housing unit or part of the same housing unit, share meals, and make joint provisions of food and other essentials of living. - Group quarters: Elderly homes, orphan homes, psycho-therapy clinics and hospitals, and other collective households - Special populations: Camp residents

Universe

(1) All persons living in the Palestinian Territory on the census date, regardless of nationality, citizenship, reason of presence, and place of residence in the Palestinian Territory. (2) All Palestinians who live abroad temporarily and for less than a year whose usual place of residence is in the Palestinian Teritory (these persons are counted with their households). (3) All Palestinians who are studying abroad, regardless of the study period and length of residence abroad, and all Palestinian persons detained in Israeli jails regardless of the detention period. NOTE: Sample includes West Bank only; it excludes Gaza Strip.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

SAMPLE DESIGN: A systematic random sample of 20 percent of households. IPUMS drew a systematic sample of every second household.

SAMPLE UNIT: household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 455,019

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Population, Housing and Establishment Census - 2007 questionnaire, including form number 19/1 PHC

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Household

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: No - Households: No - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: No

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Housing units means such a residential place which has separate building structure and is separate housing unit. These could be one or more than one housing units in a building. Housing unit and house are the same by definition in population and housing census. - Households: Households consisting of more than one person living together under common cooking arrangements (i.e., they use one burner for cooking). However if a person lives alone, he shall also be considered a household. These persons are generally relatives but these could also be friends, servants of the household and other non relatives residing in them. In such a case if the members of household do not eat at the place where they live, then they will be counted at the place where they live rather than at a place where they take their meals. - Group quarters: Housing unit which has been constructed for collective residence in connection with semi-government or trading purpose. e.g. hotel , hostel , residential barracks of Armed or semi Armed forces, residential camps, jail, Sanitarium, Mental hospital, Disabled, poor , orphans, paupers and special institutions for residences of other such people.

Universe

All the people who are residing in the boundaries of Pakistan on the Census Day, which include all types of persons (i.e., infants or babies, adults or old, males or females, landlords or tenants, Pakistanis or foreigners). The staff members of diplomats and their families are exempted.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: Population Census Organization

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th person with a random start, drawn from a 38% sample containing a weight variable (Short form data) by the Minnesota Population Center. Persons were not organized into households.

SAMPLE UNIT: Person

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 8,433,058

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

There are two Population Census forms. The short form contains a few question on demographic characteristics including name, relationship, residential status, sex, age, marital status, religion, ability to read Quran, literacy, education level, and language used in the household. These questions were asked from about ninety percent of the population. The long form will be asked of the rest of the population, and it contains all the questions asked in the short form and additional questions on higher education, field of education, migration, economic characteristics, number of children, disability, and household members living abroad.