IPUMS

05/28/2026

We are exhibiting at the Association of Health Care Journalists Health Journalism Conference, being held in Minneapolis this week. Stop by our exhibit table to learn more about health data available from IPUMS! https://bit.ly/4dzX9Kh

05/27/2026

Read our latest blog post from IHGIS! Despite enormous strides in accuracy, OCR still struggles with distinguishing uncertain numerical digits. To address this gap, IHGIS developed an R package that identifies logical relationships in tables, determines where cells don’t add up as expected, and replaces with the correct value. https://bit.ly/3PHJY0K

Does 1 + 2 = 8? Automating QA/QC for Tabular Data May 21, 2026May 21, 2026 by mpcblog By Tracy Kugler and Tsu Zhu The problem with OCR and numbers To extract data tables from census reports only available as print documents, IPUMS IHGIS uses optical character recognition (OCR) software to automate t...

05/20/2026

IPUMS DHS now includes integrated variables for 84 counties (up from 51) and nearly 350 samples (up from 233), including new data from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Oceania, the Caribbean, and Central and East Asia. This release expands the scope of IPUMS DHS beyond its initial coverage of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia and adds the latest samples for 12 countries previously in the database.

Learn more about this recent data release on the IPUMS blog: https://bit.ly/4nDtJ1b

IPUMS DHS Goes Global May 4, 2026 by mpcblog By Miriam L. King and Sula Sarkar IPUMS DHS now includes integrated variables for 84 counties (up from 51) and nearly 350 samples (up from 233), including new data from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Oceania, the Caribbean, and Central and East Asia. Prov...

05/20/2026

Last chance to register for "Global Health in Context: Linking Census Data to Health Surveys using IPUMS DHS and IHGIS". The webinar will begin today at 10am CT.

The IPUMS Demographic and Health Surveys (IPUMS DHS) and IPUMS International Historical Geographic Information System (IHGIS) have collaborated on a new feature enabling users to easily link contextual data from the censuses in IHGIS to individual-level records in IPUMS DHS. The new linking feature....

05/19/2026

The Census Bureau's Geography Division GeoForum starts today! We are excited to learn and participate this year. Our very own Jonathan Schroeder will be presenting as part of a session on Accessing Census Data on 5/20 from 2-5pm ET. https://bit.ly/3PLNgjs

05/09/2026

Can you believe it is your last chance to see us at ? We'd hate to miss you. Stop by our booth in the exhibit hall!

05/08/2026

Today at - another MIM! We'll be chatting about the future of DHS and supplemental/alternative data sources today (5/8) from 6-7:30pm in Landmark 6 at the Marriott St. Louis.

05/07/2026

Are we the best booth at or the ✨ BEST ✨ booth? Come visit us and find out!

05/07/2026

It's MIM day at ! We get to spend the day with some of the best people talking about harmonizing geographic U.S. Census data across time with IPUMS NHGIS! It's today (5/7) from 6:30 - 7:30pm in Landmark 1 at the Marriott St. Louis.

05/07/2026

Interested in families and health? We added family interrelationship variables, also known as IPUMS family pointers, to all samples in IPUMS MEPS! Find all the details at

MEPS is a project dedicated to collecting and distributing census data from around the world. Its goals are to Collect and preserve data and documentation, Harmonize data, Disseminate the data absolutely free!

05/07/2026

Our data experts are hard at work - ready to answer questions, give advice, or just share a love of data with you at !