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A Treasure Trove of Data: Public Microdata

Conducting Research using Federal Statistical Surveys, April 10, 2013

Public Use Microdata

The emphasis here is individual-level data, with identifying characteristics of individuals taken away.

  • IPUMS http://www.ipums.org/ Long time series of Census and CPS data. IPUMS is their interface to microdata, to provide custom extractions; NHGIS (above) is their interface to aggregated data and GIS layers.

  • Data Ferrett  http://dataferrett.census.gov/datasets.html Data from several surveys. Includes microdata, aggregated, time series, and longitudinal data.  Allows customized tabulations.

  • ceprDATA.org http://ceprdata.org/  Public microdata from several key surveys (e.g., ACS, CPS, SIPP) in Stata format.

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