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Work on IPUMS-International began in October 1999. One of our first goals was to inventory and preserve surviving machine-readable census microdata and documentation. In 2000, the first edition of our census microdata inventory was published in Handbook of International Census Microdata for Population Research, edited by P. Kelly Hall, R. McCaa, and G. Thorvaldsen. A revised inventory can be accessed here. In 2001, the United Nations Statistics Division donated its archive of historical census documentation, including enumeration forms for most countries dating from the 1980s and earlier, to the Minnesota Population Center. A collection of scanned enumeration forms, consisting of the 1960-1980 census rounds, was published by the Minnesota Population Center and is available here .

We have also worked with the Centro Latinoamericano y Caribeno de Demografia (CELADE) to preserve a large collection of census metadata, documentation, and microdata covering almost all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (over 3,000 census tapes). Much of the documentation has been scanned and provided to the Minnesota Population Center, as well as repatriated to the appropriate national statistical authorities.

The Minnesota Population Center has secured dissemination agreements from a large number of countries. A preliminary version of data and documentation from Colombia, France, Kenya, Mexico, the United States, and Vietnam is now available. Additional variables, enhanced documentation, and other improvements are coming soon. A second round of IPUMS-International data—including Brazil, China, Hungary, and Spain—is scheduled for release in March 2004. We have also reached agreements with census agencies of Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. Data from these countries will form the basis of a new IPUMS-Latin America project planned to begin in 2003. We have ongoing negotiations with other countries that have expressed interest in participating in the IPUMS-International initiative.

The funding from the National Science Foundation has also provided support for a project integrating the U.S. Current Population Survey’s March Annual Demographic Files from 1962 to the present with U.S. census data. A first release of harmonized variables common to both U.S. censuses and the March CPS is scheduled for summer 2002, with the remaining March CPS variables to be made available in Spring 2003.