Upcoming Events

IPUMS International is hosting a virtual workshop for the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil on 7 November.

We will be exhibiting at the GSA 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting. Stop by our exhibit booth (405) to talk data to us. IPUMS is also hosting a workshop at GSA, Population Data for Studying Formal and Informal Caregiving, on Wednesday, November 12 from 8:00am-12:00pm. 

10:30am-12:00pm CT
Join us for virtual office hours on Tuesday, November 18 to chat with IPUMS data experts about your questions. Registration is required to attend virtual office hours, but you can drop in anytime between 10:30am and 12:00pm CT with your questions for the researchers that make IPUMS possible.

About Virtual Office Hours: Virtual Office Hours are held quarterly and are a chance to connect data experts with data users to get their questions answered in a setting similar to a conference exhibit hall, but in an online format. The goal is to provide regular opportunities for face-to-face, personalized support from data experts in a casual atmosphere.

IPUMS will be exhibiting at the 2025 SSHA Conference. 

11:00am CT | Register for the I-Guide VCO
IPUMS users may be interested in an upcoming webinar from the National Science Foundation’s Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE). The webinar will focus on utilizing the R Spatial Notebooks project to develop reproducible workflows for creating maps and other visualizations of IPUMS data and other open-source social and spatial data sources. Attendees will gain experience with commonly used mapping and visualization packages including ggplot2, ggmap, tmap, and sf in addition to other considerations for making great maps. All skill-levels and backgrounds are welcome!

1:00pm CT | Register for the Beyond the PUMA webinar
In Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) from the American Community Survey (ACS), the only sub-state units identified are Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs). The correspondence between PUMAs and other standard geographies (counties, cities, metro areas, etc.) is often inexact. PUMA definitions are also updated after each decennial census, causing inconsistencies in geographic correspondences across time. IPUMS USA leverages the available PUMA information to produce a range of supplementary geographic variables, identifying cities, counties, and metro areas where possible as well as metropolitan status, metropolitan population, and population density. IPUMS USA also produces “consistent PUMAs” that group together PUMAs where boundaries have changed to identify areas with static geographic footprints.

This webinar gives an introduction to these PUMA-based variables, describing their key features, the methods we use to produce them, how we measure and report mismatches, and other important considerations for their use.

The IPUMS Big Microdata Network and the Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA), a collaboration between IPUMS and the University of Minnesota Life Course Center, are proud to sponsor the 2026 Data-Intensive Research Conference. The conference theme is Novel Data Linkages and Innovative Life Course Research. We look forward to a conference that features research presentations on a broad range of topics that address different stages of the life course that leverage large-scale population data with a linking component to examine life course processes and stages in the U.S. and global contexts.

Abstract submissions are open through January 30, 2026.