Instead of offering data in aggregated tabular form, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series offers data on individuals and households, allowing researchers to tailor tabulations to their specific interests. The site also includes data on fertility, marriage, immigration, internal migration, work, occupational structure, education, ethnicity, and household composition.
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series offers extensive documentation on procedures used to transform data and includes 13 links to other census-related sites. A complementary project to provide multiple data samples from every country from the 1960s to 2000 is underway. Currently this international series offers information and interpretive essays on Kenya, Vietnam, Mexico, Hungary, and Brazil. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series is of major importance for those doing serious research in social history, the site will probably be forbidding to novices.
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