The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a university-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research. MPC supports innovative research in population dynamics at the University of Minnesota and around the world by fostering connections among population researchers across disciplines, developing leading-edge collaborative research projects, providing technical and administrative support for demographic research, and training the next generation of interdisciplinary population researchers.
MPC receives funding through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Population Research Infrastructure Program (P2C HD041023).
IPUMS provides free census and survey data from around the world. We receive funding from the NIH and NSF to make data more accessible to researchers by making them comparable across time and space. IPUMS data users can create customized data files that include only the variables and samples of interest through our online interface and download these files for use in their preferred statistical package.
Use IPUMS data to evaluate policy; study inequities in health care access, utilization, and quality; monitor health behaviors, and analyze trends in health and health-related outcomes.
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The Life Course Center (LCC) at the University of Minnesota is an incubator for innovative research on the demography and economics of aging. The LCC recruits and fosters connections among researchers across disciplines; develops leading-edge collaborative pilot studies on aging contexts, trends, dynamics, and disparities; provides technical and administrative support for research development; and supports a research network to leverage large-scale population data to advance interdisciplinary scholarship on social determinants and contexts of aging and health.
LCC receives funding through the National Institutes of Health (P30AG066613).
The Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA) seeks to build and support an interdisciplinary and diverse community of scholars using IPUMS and other complex data resources in innovative ways for aging and life course research. We invite both established scholars of aging and life course processes and those new to the field to join the NDIRA community.