Work, Family, and Community: Global Perspectives on doing Population History
GLOS5900 Section 002, Summer 2004
overview
lab exercises and assignments
schedule
Instructors
Trent Alexander
Evan Roberts
Time and location
July 12-16, 2004
9.00am - 4.00pm, everyday
Carlson School, L-118 (mornings)
Blegen 440 (afternoons)
exercises
- Day 1: Getting to know IPUMS
- Trent's presentation (Powerpoint)
- More about sample density and weights(Powerpoint)
- How to get extracts
- Worksheet 1
- Worksheet 2
- Day 2: Marriage
- Lab exercises
- Questions on Kiernan, and Fitch and Ruggles chapters
- Attaching characteristics of spouses
- Attaching spouse's race
- Attaching spouse's religion in Vietnam
- Lecture presentation (Powerpoint)
- Steve Ruggles' black marriage presentation (Powerpoint)
- Day 3: Work
- Lab exercises
- Questions on Costa, Mammen and Paxson, and Hughes
- Lecture presentation
- Albert Esteve presentation(14MB Powerpoint file)
- Day 4: Migration
- Lab exercises
- Lindsay and Singer chapter
- Lecture presentation (Powerpoint)
- Questions on Lindsay and Singer, and Gregory
- Day 5: Segregation
assignment
links
Frequency tables and cross tabulations in Excel
Importing IPUMS data into Excel
International Labour Office LABORSTA labour statistics database(It really is spelt with a "u" in the name of the organisation, and no "u" in the database name)