Pre-Conference Workshop

August 4-5, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN

The IPUMS Big Microdata Network and NDIRA, a collaboration between IPUMS and the University of Minnesota Life Course Center, are accepting applications for the workshop component of the 2025 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The workshop will be held August 4-5, 2025 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. This will be an in-person workshop; some components of the subsequent conference will allow for virtual participation. The workshop application has closed.

This workshop is designed to familiarize participants with population data resources from IPUMS related to the conference theme of Understanding Health and Population Dynamics through Big Microdata. The workshop will provide training on using full count census data from IPUMS, including linked census data from the IPUMS Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel (MLP).

Full count IPUMS data provide opportunities to link individuals across censuses and with other records to develop longitudinal data and life histories. IPUMS Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel (MLP) links individuals' records between full count census files available via IPUMS USA. Other projects have linked census records with other sources. The workshop will cover

• Availability of full count data from IPUMS
• Challenges and opportunities of census linkage
• The MLP linking strategy
• Requesting and working with linked data from the IPUMS USA extract system
• Resources for linking IPUMS MLP to additional data
• Time to discuss research ideas and data availability with data experts

The workshop is targeted towards scholars who have worked with quantitative data, but are relatively new to using linked full count census data from IPUMS; this includes graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early career faculty, or experienced scholars developing a new line of research. We expect workshop participants will also attend the research sessions of the Data-Intensive Research Conference.