Robert McCaa
August 2017
Current
Position:
Research Professor, Minnesota Population Center
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Address:
Minnesota Population Center, 50 Willey Hall
225 Nineteenth Ave. South
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Global mobile: 952.33.IPUMS (952.334.7867)
home webpage: http://users.pop.umn.edu/~rmccaa/
mailto:rmccaa@umn.edu
Academic History:
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2017 Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan
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1999- Principal Investigator, IPUMS-International
projects
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2010-present Research Professor, Minnesota Population Center, University of
Minnesota
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1992-2010 Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota
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1984-92 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of
Minnesota
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1978-83 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of
Minnesota
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1974-78 Instructor, Department of History, University of Minnesota
Educational Background:
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1978 PhD awarded, UCLA. Dissertation: "The Demographic
Transition in Chile: The Population History of the Petorca Valley, 1840-1976"
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1972-74 Research Associate, Cambridge Group for the History of
Population and Social Structure, Cambridge University (England)
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1970-72 Dissertation research, Chile
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1969-70 Demography, Population Studies Center, University of
Pennsylvania
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1969 Statistics, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research,
University of Michigan
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1966-69 Graduate Study in History, University of California, Los Angeles
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1964-66 Peace Corps, Colombia
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1960-64 BA, Linfield College (McMinnville, Oregon)
Fellowships and Grants
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2016-2020 Principal Investigator, “Integrated Samples of Eurasian
Censuses.” R01HD047283, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences, National Institutes of Health
(NICHD-DBSB). co-PIs: Steven Ruggles et.al. $2,994,959. Score: 19 (percentile:
5).
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2014-2019 Principal Investigator, “Integrated Samples of Latin American
Censuses.” R01 HD044154, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development. co-PIs: Steven Ruggles et.al. $3,541,813. Score: 10 (5th percentile).
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2009-2015 Principal Investigator, “Integrated Samples of Eurasian
Censuses.” R01HD047283, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, Demographic and Behavioral Sciences, National Institutes of Health
(NICHD-DBSB). co-PIs: Steven Ruggles et.al. $3,587,689. Score: 10 (percentile:
2).
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2009-2018 Co-Principal Investigator, “International Integrated Microdata
Series.” SES-0851414, National Science Foundation (NSF), PI; Steven Ruggles,
$5,963,282.
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2008-2012 Principal-Investigator, National Institutes of Health, Integration of Latin American census microdata II;
co-PIs: Steven Ruggles, et.al. 2R01 HD044154-06 $3,186,484
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2004-2009 Co-Principal Investigator National Science Foundation, Human
and Social Dynamics Infrastructure award.
International
Integrated Microdata Series; co-PIs: Steven Ruggles, et.al. SES-0433654
$5,000,000
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2004-2008 Principal-Investigator, National Institutes of Health, Integrated Samples of European censuses;
co-PIs: Steven Ruggles, et.al. R01 HD047283 $3,030,118
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2003-2007 Principal-Investigator, National Institutes of Health, Integration of Latin American census microdata;
co-PIs: Steven Ruggles, et.al. R01 HD044154-01 $2,999,934
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1999-2000 Fulbright fellow, Universidad Externado, Bogotá, Colombia.
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2000-2003 Principal-Investigator, National Institutes of Health, Integration of Colombian census microdata, 1964-2001;
co-PI: Steven Ruggles. R01 HD37508 $549,160
· 1999-2004
Co-Principal-Investigator, National Science Foundation, International Integrated Microdata Access
System; co-PIs: Steven Ruggles, et.al. SBR-9908380 $3,501,130.
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1995 McKnight fellow, University of Minnesota (June-September).
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1994 Plumsock Fund grant, Latin American Population History Bulletin.
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1993 Research fellow, Australian National University (June-August).
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1990 Visiting professor, l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(May-June).
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1989-90 Fulbright-Hays Research Abroad Fellowship to Brazil, Argentina,
Chile, Costa Rica and Mexico.
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1988-89 University of Minnesota single quarter leave, Mexico.
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1987-94 University of Minnesota publication grant for Latin American
Population History Bulletin
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1986-87 University of Texas Archival Restoration grant.
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Tinker Foundation Archival Restoration grant (renewal).
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University of Minnesota research grant.
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1985-86 Tinker Foundation Archival Restoration grant.
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University of Minnesota research grant.
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1983-84 University of Minnesota research grant.
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Bush Foundation sabbatical fellowship.
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1973-74 Population Council Fellowship, Cambridge University.
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1971-72 Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellowship, Santiago Chile.
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Population Council research grant.
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1969-71 Foreign Area Fellowship for dissertation research.
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1966-69 NDEA Title VI Fellowship for graduate study at UCLA.
Publications
2016
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"
Chinese (revised version): Statistical coherence of primary schooling in IPUMS-International integrated population samples for China, India, Vietnam, and ten other Asia-Pacific countries". Chinese Journal of Population Sciences, 44-57. Co-authors: Lara Cleveland, Patricia Kelly-Hall, Steven Ruggles, and Matthew Sobek.
2015
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"
The IPUMS Collaboration:
Integrating and Disseminating the World’s Population Microdata." DOI Journal of Demographic Economics, 81(2): 203-216. Co-authors: Lara Cleveland, Steven Ruggles, and Matthew Sobek.
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"
Statistical coherence of primary schooling in IPUMS-International integrated population samples for China, India, Vietnam, and ten other Asia-Pacific countries". Chinese Journal of Sociology, 333-355. Co-authors: Lara Cleveland, Patricia Kelly-Hall, Steven Ruggles, and Matthew Sobek.doi: 10.1177/2057150X15593710
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Statistical coherence of primary schooling in population census microdata: IPUMS-International integrated samples compared for fifteen African countries
". African Population Studies/Etude de la Population Africaine, 29(1):1570-1586. Co-authors: Lara Cleveland, Patricia Kelly-Hall, Steven Ruggles, and Matthew Sobek.
2014
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"
Human Development Index-like Small Area Estimates for Africa computed from IPUMS-International integrated census microdata
". Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, DOI 10.1080/19452829.2014.956300. Co-authors: Iñaki Permanyer, Albert Esteve, and Joan Garcia.
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"
Controlled shuffling, statistical confidentiality and microdata utility: a successful experiment with a 10% household sample of the 2011 population census of Ireland for the IPUMS-International database
". In J. Domingo-Ferrer (Ed.): Privacy in Statistical Data 2014, LNCS vol 8744, pp. 326-337. Co-authors: Krish Muralidhar, Rathindra Sarathy, Michael Comerford, and Albert Esteve.
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"
Thanks to 70 years of Inter American Statistical cooperation, the world’s largest integrated census microdata dissemination site www.ipums.org/international
". Estadística 65 [2013]:31-45 (70th anniversary issue).
2013
Publications
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"
The Big Data Revolution: IPUMS-International. Trans-Border Access to Decades of Census Microdata Samples for Three-fourths of the World and more.
". Revista de Demografía Histórica, 30:1 [2012], pp. 69-88.
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"
The educational homogamy gap between married and cohabiting couples in Latin America
". Population Research and Policy Review, Co-authors: Albert Esteve, Anthony Lopez-Gay
Workshops, papers and presentations
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Ottawa, Joint UNECE/Eurostat work session on statistical data confidentiality Analytical tests of controlled shuffling to protect statistical confidentiality and privacy of a ten per cent household sample of the 2011 census of Ireland for the IPUMS-International database.
Co-authors: Krish Muralidhar, Rathindra Sarathy, Michael Comerford, and Albert Esteve Palos
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Busan, XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference:
Non-marital cohabitation in census questionnaires worldwide. Presenter: Jeroen J.A. Spijker; Co-authors: Albert Esteve, Antonia Cusidó-Vallverdú
2012
Publications
·
"
When Excessive Perturbation Goes Wrong and Why IPUMS-International Relies Instead on Sampling, Suppression, Swapping, and Other Minimally Harmful Methods to Protect Privacy of Census Microdata.
". In J. Domingo-Ferrer and I. Tinnirello (Eds.): Privacy in Statistical Data 2012, LNCS vol 7556. Co-authors: Lara Cleveland, Steven Ruggles and Matthew Sobek.
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"
IPUMS-International:
Integrating and Disseminating High Precision Population Census Samples of the
USA, Greece, Europe and the World". Modern Greek Studies
Yearbook,
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Comparative perspectives
on Marriage and International Migration, 1970-2000: Findings from
IPUMS-international census Microdata Samples in Cross Border
Marriage: Global Trends and Diversity. Doo-Sub Kim, ed. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs.
Co-authors: Albert Esteve, Joan
García.
Workshops, papers and presentations
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Rio de Janeiro:
ppt - Seguridad en números: IPUMS-International:rescatar, confidencializar, harmonizar, y manejar la divulgación de microdatos censales de Brazil, las Américas y el mundo.
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CEDEPLAR (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil:
Big Data: Haciendo buen uso del IPUMS-International.
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Buenos Aires:
ppt - Big Data: INDEC, socio-fundador del proyecto IPUMS-International para homologar muestras censales de Argentina y el mundo .
Jornada "La población en Argentina y en el mundo: análisis y prospectiva", 31 de octubre
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Palermo:
When Excessive Perturbation Goes Wrong and Why IPUMS-International Relies Instead on Sampling, Suppression, Swapping, and Other Minimally Harmful Methods to Protect Privacy of Census Microdata.
.
Privacy in Statistical Databases,
26-28 Sep. Co-authors: Lara Cleveland, Steven Ruggles and Matthew Sobek.
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Kiev:
Ten Ways IPUMS-International Adds Value to Census Microdata
. Russian
International Association of Official Statisticians. 12-14 Sep. Co-authors: Lara Cleveland, Albert Esteve, Steven Ruggles and Matt Sobek.
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New Delhi:
IPUMS-International: A Decade of Progress and Challenges and Their Relevance for
Disseminating Integrated, High Precision Samples of the Population Censuses of India
.
Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
6-7 Sep. Co-authors: Steven Ruggles, Matt Sobek, and Lara Cleveland.
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Geneva:
IPUMS-International and Integrated European Census Microdata Projects Reduce Risks of Managing Trans-border Access and Add Significant Value
. Russian
UNECE/EuroSTAT 14th Expert Meeting on Population and Housing Censuses.
Geneva. 24-25 May. Co-author: Albert Esteve.
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Luxembourg:
Disclosure
Controls for One-Stop, Trans-Border Access to Census Microdata for 98 Countries
via a Single License and Dissemination Point: the IPUMS-IECM Partnership.
ESSnet Workshop on Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) of Census data.
Luxembourg, 19-20 April. Co-author: Albert Esteve.
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Cape Town, South Africa:
Françes English: IPUMS and AICMD Add Significant
Value to African Census Microdata. 8th Africa Symposium on Statistical
Development. 14-18 Jan, Cape Town. South Africa. Co-author: Patricia
Kelly-Hall.
2011
Publications
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"
Creating
Statistically Literate Global Citizens: The Use of IPUMS-International
Integrated Census Microdata in Teaching". Statistical
Journal of the IAOS (International Association of Official Statisticians),
27(3):145-156. Co-authors: Ann Meier and David Lam
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"Maternal
mortality in South Africa: An update from the 2007 Community Survey".
Journal of Population Research, 28:89-101. Co-authors: Michel Garenne
and Kourtoum Nacro
Workshops, papers and presentations
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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso:
The
quality of constructed family and household relationships in African Census
Samples. Sixth African Population Conference, 5-9 December. Co-authors:
Sheela Kennedy, Matthew Sobek, Lara Cleveland.
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Bali, Indonesia. IPUMS-International
Adds Value to Census Microdata in Countless Ways. Needs Assessment
Conference on Census Analysis in Asia (NACCA) 23-25 November.
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Tarragona, Spain:
Trans-Border
access to Census Microdata: The IPUMS-IECM partnership, where a single license
agreement opens access to microdata for more than 60 countries to researchers world-wide
free of cost . Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical
Data Confidentiality, Oct 26-28.
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Seoul, Korea:
Comparative
perspectives on Marriage and International Migration, 1970-2000: findings from
IPUMS-International census microdata samples. . IUSSP Scientific
Panel on Global Perspectives on Marriage and International Migration; Oct.
20-21
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Dublin, Ireland: STS065: The
Future of Microdata access. IPUMS-International show (4mb)58th
World Statistics Congress; Aug 21-26.
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Trinity College,Dublin,Ireland. IPUMS-Global, Aug. 20-21.
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University of Manchester, Manchester, UK: "2011: impact and
potential Exploring the research potential of the 2011" Jul 7-8
· OECD Expert Group on Microdata Access, Paris,
Jul 6-7.
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Seoul, Korea: 25th Population Census Conference, Association of National
Census and Statistics Directors of America, Asia and the Pacific; May 25-27
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National University, Singapore: Centre for Applied and Policy Economics
(SCAPE), Department of Economics, May 24
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Washington, DC:
1930
Population Census of Mexico: a 1% Pilot Microdata Sample with Aurora
Gomez Galvarriato. Population Association of American Annual Meeting
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Abuja, Nigeria: National Population Commission, Apr. 28
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Yaounde, Cameroon: National Statistics Institute workshop, Apr. 14
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Washington, DC: World Bank DECDG Seminar and BBL series, Mar 30
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Tirupathi, India: International Association of Social Sciences and
Health, Feb. 11
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Mumbai, India: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Jan. 28
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Mumbai, India: Interntational Institute of Population Sciences, Jan. 25
Publications
2010
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"La enumeración de la soltería femenina en los censos de
población: sesgo y propuesta de corrección," Papeles de Poblacón,
66:9-40. Co-authors: Albert Esteve and Joan García.
· " IPUMS-International Statistical Disclosure
Controls: 159 Census Microdata Samples in Dissemination, 100+ in Preparation".
J. Domingo-Ferrer and E. Magkos (Eds.): Privacy in Statistical Data 2010,
LNCS 6344. Springer, Heidelberg. Co-authors: Steven Ruggles and Matt Sobek.
2008
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"Maternal
Mortality in South Africa in 2001: From Demographic Census to Epidemiological
Investigation," Population Health Metrics, 6:4(Aug)
1-13. Co-authors: Michel L. Garenne and Kourtoum Nacro. also available from: http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/6/1/4
·
IPUMS-International
web-site 2008 release (June 1). Anonymized microdata samples for 35
countries, 111 censuses (1960s-2000), 263 million person records, and thousands
of variables. Co-Principal Investigators: Steven Ruggles, Matt Sobek, Miriam
King, and Deborah Levison.
2007
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"
Homogamia Educacional en
México y Brasil, 1970-2000: Pautas y Tendencias ,"
Latin American Research Review, 42(2):56-88. Co-author: Albert Esteve.
· "El proyecto IPUMS-International: Microdatos censales para
investigadores argentinos, latinoamericanos y del resto del mundo,"
SEPOSAL: Salta, Argentina. Co-author: Albert Esteve.
· "Gender and
Ethnicity: Marriage Patterns in Historical Perspective," SEPOSAL:
Salta, Argentina. Co-authors: Albert Esteve and Clara Cortina.
2006
· "IPUMS-International High Precision Population Census
Microdata Samples: Balancing the Privacy-Quality Tradeoff by Means of
Restricted Access Extracts," Privacy in
Statistical Databases (New York: Springer), 375-382. Co-authors: Steven
Ruggles, Michael Davern, Tami Swenson, and Krishna Mohan Palipudi.
· "Using integrated census microdata for evidence-based policy
making: the IPUMS-International global initiative," African
Statistical Journal, 2:83-100. Co-authors: Albert Esteve, Steven Ruggles,
Matt Sobek.
· "IPUMS-Europe: Confidentiality measures for licensing and
disseminating restricted access census microdata extracts to academic users,"
Monographs of official statistics: Work session on statistical data
confidentiality. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the
European Communities, pp. 37-46. Co-author: Albert Esteve.
2005
· "Gender and
Ethnicity: Marriage Patterns in Historical Perspective" in Reed Ueda
(ed.), A Companion to American Immigration, London: Blackwell.
Co-authors: Albert Esteve and Clara Cortina.
· "Los millones
perdidos: el costo demográfico de la revolución mexicana," VI
Reunión Nacional de Investigación Demográfica en México, vol. 3: Población,
desarrollo social y grupos vulnerables, México, DF: UNAM, SOMEDE, 349-390.
· "Comment:
Paleodemography", Current Anthropology,46-sup (Dec. 2005),
S40-S41.
· "La integración
de los microdatos censales de América Latina: el proyecto IPUMS", Estudios
Demográficos y Urbanos 20:1(58) 37-70. Co-author: Albert Esteve.
2004
· IPUMS-International web-site, preliminary
release (September 1, 2004). Microdata for 8 countries (Brazil, China,
Colombia, France, Kenya, Mexico, USA, and Vietnam), 26 censuses (1960s-2000),
120 million person records, and >100 variables. Co-Principal Investigators:
Steven Ruggles, Matt Sobek, Miriam King, and Deborah Levison.
· "Revisioning smallpox in Mexico Tenochtitlán, 1520-1950: What
difference did charity, quarantine, inoculation and vaccination make?,"
Eugenio Sonnino (ed.), "Vivere in Citta/Living in the City",
Poverty, Charity and the City.
· "Inverse projection: Fine-tuning and expanding the method";
Co-author: Elisabetta Barbi. in Elisabetta Barbi, Salvatore Bertino and Eugenio
Sonnino (eds.), Inverse Projection Techniques. Old and New Approaches,
Berlin: Springer, Demographic Research Monographs Series of the Max Planck
Institute for Demographic Research, pp. 11-27.
2003
· "The Nahua calli
of ancient Mexico: household, family, and gender," Continuity and
Change, 18:1 (2003), 23-48; unrevised Spanish version: "El calli de
los nahuas del México antiguo: hogar, familia y género," Revista de
Indias LXIII:227 (2003), 79-104.
· "Archiving
Census Documentation and Microdata: Preserving Memory, Increasing Stakeholders",
Notas de Población XXIX:75 (2003), 303-320; Co-author: Wendy L. Thomas.
Symposium on Global Review of 2000 Round of Population and Housing Censuses:
Mid-Decade Assessment and Future Prospects. Statistics Division, United Nations
Secretariat, New York
· "Missing
millions: the demographic costs of the Mexican Revolution," Mexican
Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 19:2(Summer 2003), 367-400.
2002
· IPUMS-International
web-site, preliminary release (May 1, 2002). Microdata for 6 countries
(Colombia, France, Kenya, Mexico, USA, and Vietnam), 21 censuses (1960s-2000),
48 million person records, and 50 variables. Co-Principal Investigators: Steven
Ruggles, Matt Sobek, Miriam King, and Deborah Levison.
· "Harmonizing census
microdata of Colombia, 1964-2003," in Fernán Vejarano and Robert McCaa
(eds.), Homologación de los microdatos censales colombianos, 1964-1993:
Memorias del taller Col-IPUMS. Bogotá: Departamento Administrativo Nacional
de Estadística, University of Minnesota Population Center and CIDS Universidad
Externado de Colombia, pp. 9-26.
· " The Census in global perspective and the coming microdata
revolution"; Co-author: Steven Ruggles. Scandinavian
Population Studies, vol. 13 , pp. 7-30
· "Paleodemography of the Americas:
From Ancient Times to Colonialism and Beyond," in Richard H. Steckel
and Jerome C. Rose (eds.), The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in
the Western Hemisphere, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 94-124.
· "Health and Nutrition in Pre-Hispanic
Mesoamerica," in Richard H. Steckel and Jerome C. Rose (eds.), The
Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere, New
York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 307-338; Co-authors: Lourdes Marquez
Morfin, Rebecca Storey, and Andres Del Angel.
· "El poblamiento de México: de sus
orígenes a la Revolución," in José Gómez León Cruces and Cecilia
Rabell Romero (eds.), La Población de México: Tendencias y perspectivas
sociodemográficas hacia el siglo XXI. México: Consejo Nacional de Población
and Fondo de Cultura Económica.
2001
· "La mujer mexicana económicamente activa: son confiables los
microdatos censales? Una prueba a través de censos y encuestas. México y los
Estados Unidos, 1970-1990"; co-authors: Rodolfo
Gutiérrez and Gabriela Vásquez. in Papeles de Población 6:25(jul-sep
2000), 151-178. (click here to download tables and graphs)
· "Demographic Techniques: Inverse Projection",
International Encyclopedia for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. New
York: Elsevier, pp. 3464-3471.
2000
· "Los efectos demográficos de la revolución mexicana en
Estados Unidos," Historia Mexicana, 50:1 (jul-sep 2000),
145-165; coauthors: Myron P. Gutmann, Rodolfo Gutierrez-Montes, and Brian
Gratton.
· "Familia y género en México. Crítica metodológica y
desafío investigativo para el fin del milenio," in Victor Manuel Uribe
Urán and Luis Javier Ortiz Mesa (eds.), Naciones, gentes y territorios:
Ensayos de historia e historiografía comparada de América Latina y el Caribe.
Medellín: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, pp. 103-138.
· "The peopling of Mexico from origins to revolution," in Michael R. Haines and Richard H.
Steckel, A Population History of North America New York: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 241-304. Spanish translating forthcoming in José Gomez de
León Cruces y Cecilia Rabell Romero (eds.), Cien años de cambio demográfico
en México. México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2 tomos.
· "Fue el siglo xvi una catástrofe demográfica para
México? Una respuesta basada en la demografía histórica no cuantitativa,"
en Investigación demográfica en México, México, DF: Sociedad Mexicana de
Demografía, [1998], vol. 1, pp. 503-516.
· "The Standardized Census Sample Operation (OMUECE) of
Latin America, 1959-1982 [1995]: a project of the Latin American Demographic
Center (CELADE)", in Patricia Kelly Hall, Robert
McCaa and Gunnar Thorvaldsen, eds., Handbook of International Historical
Microdata for Population Research, Minneapolis: Minnesota Population
Center, 2000, pp. 287-302; coauthor: Dirk J. Jaspers-Faijer.
· "Argentina: First with Public Historical Census
Microdata," in Patricia Kelly Hall, Robert McCaa and
Gunnar Thorvaldsen, eds., Handbook of International Historical Microdata for
Population Research, Minneapolis: Minnesota Population Center, 2000, pp.
13-22; coauthors: Michael R. Haines and Eileen M. Mulhare.
· "Colombia: microdata samples for four national
censuses, 1964, 1973, 1985 and 1993," in Patricia
Kelly Hall, Robert McCaa and Gunnar Thorvaldsen, eds., Handbook of
International Historical Microdata for Population Research, Minneapolis:
Minnesota Population Center, 2000, pp. 61-78.
· "IPUMS International: A global project to preserve
machine-readable census microdata and make them usable," in Patricia
Kelly Hall, Robert McCaa and Gunnar Thorvaldsen, eds., Handbook of
International Historical Microdata for Population Research, Minneapolis:
Minnesota Population Center, 2000, pp. 335-346; coauthor: Steven Ruggles.
1999
· "Is education destroying indigenous languages in Chiapas?";
co-author: Heather M. Mills. in Anita Herzfeld y Yolanda Lastra (eds.), Las
causas sociales de la desaparición de las lenguas en las naciones de América,
Hermosillo: Universidad de Sonora, 1999, pp. 117-136.
1998
· "Inoculation: An Easy Means of Protecting People or
Propagating Smallpox? Spain, New Spain and Chiapas, 1779-1800,"
Boletín Mexicana de Historia y Filosofía de la Medicina, vol. 2, nueva
época (septiembre 1998), pp. 4-11.
1997
"Descenso de la fecundidad y modos de uniones
matrimoniales en México: casos de Chihuahua y Puebla",
Actas de la VII Jornada Nacional de Historia Regional de Chile 1996.
Santiago: Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Ciencias Históricas, pp. 59-78.
· "Latin American demographic history in the age of
the World Wide Web: National census samples as historical sources,"
in Dora Celton (ed.) Fuentes útiles para los estudios de la población
americana. Quito: Abya-Yala, pp. 379-384.
· "Families and Gender in Mexico: a Methodological
Critique and Research Challenge for the End of the Millennium,"
in IV Conferencia Iberoamericana Sobre Familia: Historia de Familia,
Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia Centro de Investigaciones Sobre
Dinámica Social, pp. 71-83.
1996
"Matrimonio infantil, cemithualtin (familias complejas), y el
antiguo pueblo nahua," Historia Mexicana 46:1(jul-sept), 3-70. (English text)
"The Big Killers: Mortality Crises in Social Context", Social
Science History, 20:4 (Winter), 553-557; Guest editor of vol 20, no. 4.
"Tratos nupciales: la constitución de uniones formales e informales en
México y España, 1500-1900," in Pilar Gonzalbo and Cecilia Rabell (eds.),
Familia y Vida Privada en la Historia de Iberoamérica (Colegio de Mexico
y Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), 21-57.
1995
"Spanish
& Nahuatl Views on Smallpox and Demographic Catastrophe in Mexico,"
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 25:3 (Winter), 397-431.
"¿Fue el
siglo XVI una catástrofe demográfica para México? Una respuesta basada en la
demografía histórica no cuantitativa," Cuadernos de Historia, 15
(Diciembre), 123-136.
"Population History of Spanish America," in Barbara Tenebaum (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Latin American History, 4:435-439.
1994
"Child Marriage and Complex Families Among the Nahuas of Ancient
Mexico", Latin American Population History Bulletin, 26 (Fall), 2-11.
"Latin American Demography", in Peter N. Stearns (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Social History.
"Marriageways in Mexico and Spain, 1500-1900", Continuity and
Change 9:1(May), 11-43. 1993
"Gender in the Melting Pot: Marital Assimilation in New York City,
1900-1980", Journal of Interdisciplinary History 24:2 (Fall),
207-231.
"The Peopling of 19th Century Mexico: Critical Scrutiny of a Censured
Century", in Statistical Abstract of Latin America, vol. 30, 603-633.
Abbreviated Spanish translation: "El poblamiento del México decimonónico:
escrutinio crítico de un siglo censurado", in El poblamiento de México.
Una visión histórico-demográfica, México, D.F.: Consejo Nacional de
Población.
"Inverse Population Projection Benchmarks: England, Sweden, and a Modern
Standard", in R. Schofield and D. Reher (eds.), Old and New Methods in
Historical Demography, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1992
"Comment la projection inverse se comporte-t-elle sur des données
simulées?", en Alain Blum, Noël Bonneuil et Didier Blanchet (eds.)
Modèles de la démographie historique, Paris: Institut National des Etudes
Démographiques, Congrès et Colloques Nº 11. co-author: James W. Vaupel.
1991
"La Viuda viva del México borbónico: sus voces, variedades, y
vejaciones", in P. Gonzalbo (ed), Las familias novohispanas siglos
XVI-XIX, México: El Colegio de México, 299-324.
"Female and Family in Nineteenth Century Latin America", Journal
of Family History vol. 16 number 3, guest editor.
"El celibato, la unión y el matrimonio en Chile", in Historia de
la familia chilena, Santiago de Chile (Spanish translation of Chapter 3 of
"Marriage and Fertility in Chile").
"La posición de los padres, la inclinación de los novios, y las reglas de
la feria nupcial de Parral, 1770-1814, Historia Mexicana,
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"The Female Population of Chile, 1855-1964: A Microcomputer Balance Sheet
Method", Latin American Population History Bulletin 15 (Spring),
9-14.
"Populate: A microcomputer projection package for aggregative data
applied to Norway, 1736-1970", Annales de Demographie Historique,
287-298.
"Women's Position, Family and Fertility Decline in Parral (Mexico),
1777-1930", Annales de Demographie Historique, 233-243; reprinted:
Actas del Primer Congreso de Historia Regional Comparada, Ciudad Juarez:
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez, 205-218.
"Populate From Births and Deaths to the Demography of the Past, Present,
and Future", manual and micro-computer program in Humphrey Institute Center
for Population Analysis and Policy working papers series, 89-06-02.
"Conference on the Population History of Latin America: A Report and
Paper Abstracts", Latin American Population History Bulletin 16
(Fall, 1989), 2-10. 1988
"Migración y Sociedad: El caso de Parral Chihuahua, 1777, 1930", in
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"Orphanhood and Adult Mortality in the Past: A Critique of Latin American
Data and Procedures", Latin American Population History Bulletin,
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"Calidad, Clase, and Endogamy in Colonial Mexico: The Case of Parral,
1788-1790", Hispanic American Historical Review, 64:3 (August),
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"Microcomputer Software Designs for Historians: Word Processing, Filing
and Data Entry Programs", Historical Methods, 17:2 (Spring), 68-74.
1983
"Measuring Miscegenation: Percentages, Cohen's Kappa and Log-linear
Models", Comparative Studies in Society and History, 25:4 (October),
711-720. Co-author: Stuart Schwartz.
Marriage and Fertility in Chile: Demographic Turning Points in the
Petorca Valley, 1840-1976. Dellplain Latin American Series, Westview Press,
Boulder, Co. 1982
"Modeling Social Interaction: Marital Miscegenation in Colonial Spanish
America", Historical Methods, 15:2, 45-66.
"Population History Symposia at the 44th Congress of the
Americanists", Latin American Population History Bulletin, 3:1
(Spring), 12-13.
"Social Theory and the Log-linear Approach: The Question of Race and
Class in Colonial Spanish America", Discussion Paper No. 76, Department of
Geography, Syracuse University. Co-author: Michael Swann.
1981
"A New Approach for Analyzing Population Data: Log-linear Models of
Tables of Counts", Latin American Population History Bulletin, 2:4
(Fall), 39-46. 1979
"Race and Class in Colonial Latin America: A Critique",
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 21:3, 421-433. Co-authors:
Stuart Schwartz and Arturo Grubessich. 1978
"Figures, Facts and Fallacies: The Population of Colonial Venezuela",
Latin American Research Review, 13:1, 195-199.
"Chilean Social and Demographic History: Sources, Issues, and
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1975
"La documentación histórico-demográfica del `Norte Chico', Chile", in
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Papers:
2008
"Assortative mating patterns in the developing world" Albert Esteve, Robert McCaa and Sula Sakar. Sep. 10, 2009 IUSSP Seminar on
Changing Transitions to Marriage, New Delhi, Sep 10-12.
"Maternal Mortality in South Africa in 2001: From Demographic
Census to Epidemiological Investigation". co-authors:
Michel L. Garenne and Kourtoum Nacro
2007
"Engendering Economic Activity in Population Censuses," Robert McCaa, Antonio Lopez & Phuong Nguyen. Dec 12, 2007 Global Forum on Gender Statistics, Rome,Italy.
"Engendering African censuses: Capture secondary economic activity, especially of women and part-time workers," Robert McCaa Dec 6, 2007 ASSD, Accra, Ghana.
"Preserving census microdata and making them useful: IPUMS & Sudan,"
Prof. Awad Hag Ali and Robert McCaa, First Arab Statistical Conference, 12-13 November 2007, Amman, Jordan.
"A proposal to preserve, integrate and manage access to anonymized census samples of the Official Statistical Agencies of the Arab States in cooperation with the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics,"
Robert McCaa, First Arab Statistical Conference, 12-13 November 2007, Amman, Jordan.
"IPUMS-International Integrated Census
Microdata Extract System: Users and Uses, May 2002-March 2007,"
Robert McCaa, Steven Ruggles, and Matt Sobek, 23rd ANCSDAAP Population Census
Conference, 16-18 April 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand.
"Using Census
Microdata Disseminated by IPUMS-International to Assess Millennium Development
Goals of Literacy, Education and Gender Equity in the Ugandan censuses of 1991
and 2002," Robert McCaa, Steven Ruggles, and Matt Sobek, Scientific Statistics
Conference, Kampala, Uganda, June 11-13.
"Integrating
Disability Census Microdata: What is accessible from IPUMS-International?"
Robert McCaa and Krishna Mohan Palipudi, 56th Session of the
International Statistical Institute, Lisbon,
Portugal, Aug.
22-29.
"IPUMS-International High Precision Population
Census Microdata Samples: Balancing the Privacy-Quality Tradeoff by Means
of Restricted Access Extracts," International Conference on Quality Management
of Official Statistics, Daejeon, Republic
of Korea, Sep. 6-7, 2007.
"Género
y trabajo en los censos de población de América Latina: la captación de la
actividad económica femenina secundaria a partir de la ampliación del
cuestionario censal con una única pregunta," Robert McCaa and Antonio López
Gay, UNFPA Workshop on Preparatory Activities,
Analysis and Exchange of Experiences for the Successful Implementation of the
2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses in Latin America and the
Caribbean, Panama City, Panama, Sept. 17-21.
"Preserving Census Microdata and Making Them Useful: Sudan," Arab Statistical Conference, Amman, Jordan,
November 12-13, 2007 , Robert McCaa and Awad Hag Ali
"Maternal Mortality in South Africa in 2001: From Census to
Epidemiology," Michel Garenne, Robert McCaa,
and Kourtoum Nacro, Union of African Population Studies, Arusha, Tanzania,
December 10-14, 2007.
2006
show (4 mb) "IPUMS-International High Precision Population Census Microdata Samples: Balancing the Privacy-Quality Tradeoff by Means of Restricted Access Extracts" Privacy in Statistical Databases, December 13-16, 2006, Rome. co-authors: Steven Ruggles, Michael Davern, Tami Swenson, and Krishna Mohan Palipudi.
"Indigenous Peoples, Ethnicity and Identities in contemporary censuses: A global perspective" Presentation (1mb) Spread sheet of Identity Questions in Contemporary Censuses ," Indigenous Identities in Demographical Sources. Umea, Sweden. Sep 29-30
"Homogamia educacional en México y Brasil, 1970-2000: pautas y tendencias," Associación latinoamericano de población. Guadalajara. co-author: Albert Esteve
" Presentation (1mb) Paper: Educational homogamy of Mexicans in Mexico and the USA: What difference does gender, generation, ethnicity, and educational attainment make in marriage patterns," Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Los Angeles. co-author: Albert Esteve
"IPUMS:
la familia crece," 2º Seminario Internacional: efectos de la globalización y las políticas
migratorias, Toluca, Mexico, 15-17 noviembre.
"Disseminating
integrated, anonymized, high precision census microdata samples: an invitation,
update and proposal," Fourteenth Meeting of the Regional Census Coordinating Committee (CARICOM), Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 9-10 November 2006.
"Homogamia educativa de los
mexicanos en México y Estados Unidos: género, generación, origen y educación," Reunión Anual de la Sociedad
Mexicana de Demografía (SOMEDE), Guadalajara, Mexico, 5-9 September, Robert McCaa y Albert Esteve.
"Disseminating integrated census microdata to
academic researchers and policy makers at no cost," Workshop on Advocacy and Resource Mobilization
For Phase I (2005-2009) of the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses in
Asia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 25–28 July 2006
"The IPUMS-Europe project: Integrating the
Region´s Census Microdata," European Population Conference, Liverpool, UK, Jun 21-24. Albert Esteve, Robert McCaa, and Anna Cabré
"Using integrated census microdata for
evidence-based policy making: the IPUMS-International global initiative," Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health, Third all India Conference, New Delhi, Mar. 16-18, Robert McCaa, Albert
Esteve, Steven Ruggles, Matt Sobek and Ragui Assaad
presentation (4mb): "Disseminating census microdata: an essential component of National Strategies for the Development of Statistics."Forum on African Statistics Development (FASDEV II), February 6-10, Addis Ababa.
presentation (1mb): "Archiving African census microdata and documentation."Forum on African Statistics Development (FASDEV II), February 6-10, Addis Ababa.
2005
"IPUMS-Europe: Confidentiality measures for licensing and disseminating restricted access census microdata extracts to academic users," Joint UNECE/Eurostat Work Session on Statistical Confidentiality, Geneva, Nov. 9-11, 2005. co-author: Albert Esteve.
"IPUMS-International: Making Confidentialized, Harmonized Census Microdata for 44 Countries Available Free-of-Charge to Academic and Policy Researchers World-Wide," Fourteenth Conference of Commonwealth Statisticians, September 5-9, 2005, Capetown, South Africa. co-authors: Steven Ruggles and Matt Sobek.
"Homogamia Educacional en México y Brasil, 1970-2000: Pautas y Tendencias," International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, XXV International Population Conference, Tours, France, July 18-23, 2005. co-author:
Albert Esteve.
"Calibrating paleodemography: fertility effects are so strong (and mortality so weak) that stable population analysis is better than quasi-stable or dynamic methods," International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, XXV International Population Conference, Tours, France, July 18-23, 2005.
"Statistical Confidentiality and the Dissemination of Restricted-Access Integrated Census Microdata Extracts: The Case of Kenya, 1969-1999. International Commission for Historical Demography, July 3-9, 2005, Sydney Australia.
co-author: Agnes Odinga
"Gender and Ethnicity: Marriage Patterns in Historical Perspective" Seminario International de población y sociedad, June 8-10. Salta, Argentina.
co-authors: Albert Esteve and Clara Cortina.
"IPUMS-International Harmonized Census Microdata Extract System: Users and Uses, May 2002-January 2005"; co-authors: Steven Ruggles and Matt Sobek. ANCSDAAP 2005 conference, March 7-9, 2005, Seattle WA
"IPUMS-International: Project Goals and How We Accomplish Them"; IPUMS-International Asian and Pacific Workshop, March 6, 2005, Seattle WA
"Kenyan census microdata: orphanhood as an illustration of research opportunities and challenges"; co-author: Agnes Odinga. American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 6-9, 2005, Seattle WA
"Harmonized census microdata of Mexico and the USA: A comparison of women in the workforce by birthplace, origin and ethnicity"; co-author: Rodolfo Gutierrez. American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 6-9, 2005, Seattle WA
2004
"Using IPUMS-International: A Restricted Access Web-Site offering anonymized, integrated census microdata of China, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, France, and Other Countries free of charge. 36th International Institute of Sociology World Congress, Beijing July 7-11. Powerpoint and also invited paper: National Bureau of Statistics Census 2000 Seminar, Beijing, April 28.
"Why Blame Smallpox? The Death of the Inca Huayna Capac and
the Demographic Destruction of Tawantinsuyu (Ancient Peru); co-authors: Aleta Nimlos and Teodoro Hampe-Martínez. American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 8-11, 2004, Washington D.C.
"Women in the workforce: Calibrating census microdata against gold standards Mexico 1990-2000, Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 6, 2004. Powerpoint
2003
"Family relationships in Mexican Censuses: A Proposal for the International Integration of census microdata and A Historical Overview," Reunion de la SOMEDE, Guadalajara, Mexico, Dec. 2-5
"El proyecto IPUMS-International: Microdatos censales para investigadores y planificadores en Chile, Latino América y el mundo," Seminario Internacional IASI, "Estadística y Desarrollo Local en un Mundo Globalizado", Valdivia, Chile, Octuber 8-10, 2003; co-author: Albert Esteve.
"IPUMS-International: A Restricted Access Web-Site Providing Anonymized, Integrated Census Microdata for Social Science and Policy Research," Invited Paper Meeting 38: Microdata - managing the dilemma between access, privacy, and confidentiality, International Statistical Institute 54th Session, August 15-20, 2003, Berlin; co-authors: Steven Ruggles, Matt Sobek and Albert Esteve.
"Women in the workforce: Calibrating census microdata against gold standards Mexico 1990-2000, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May, 2003; co-authors: Albert Esteve, Rodolfo Gutierrez and Gabriela Vasquez.
"Integrating European Census Microdata," Working Party on Demographic Statistics and Population and Housing Censuses, Eurostat, February 19-20, 2003, Luxembourg; co-author: Nikolai Botev.
2002
"The IPUMS-International Project: Challenges and Methods of International Census Data Integration
," Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis MO, 24-27 Oct
ober
; co-authors: Matt Sobek and Albert Esteve
"IPUMS-International: Preserving the world's microdata and making them usable," Statistics Netherlands, Vorboorg, October 9.
"Paleodemography of the Americas," International Economic History Association Conference, Buenos Aires, July 22-26, 2002
"Disseminating Anonymized, Integrated Census Microdata via the Internet: the IPUMS-International Project," 20th ANCSDAAP Population Census Conference, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 19-21 June, 2002
; co-authors: Steven Ruggles and Matt Sobek
"What is Paleodemography... without... Fertility?," Paleodemography Workshop, Rostock, Germany, June 8-9.
"Why Virgin Soil Epidemics Played a Minor Role in the 16th Century Demographic Collapse of Mexico," Washington, DC April 11-12, Inter-American Institute conference Disease and Disaster in Pre-Columbian and Colonial America.
2001
Statistical Confidentiality and the Construction of Anonymized Public Use Census Samples: a draft proposal for the Kenyan Microdata for 1989 ; coauthor: Agnes A. Odinga.
Social Science History Annual Convention, Chicago, ILL. Nov. 15-18. Research funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9908380
"Women in the workforce: calibrating census microdata against a gold standard Mexico, 1970, 1990 and 2000"; coauthors: Rodolfo Gutiérrez and Gabriela Vásquez.
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population XXIV General Conference, Salvador, Brazil, August 18-24, 2001. Research funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9908380
"Archiving Census Documentation and Microdata:
Preserving Memory, Increasing Stakeholders";
coauthor: Wendy L. Thomas.
Symposium on Global Review of 2000 Round
of Population and Housing Censuses: Mid-Decade
Assessment and Future Prospects.
Statistics Division,
Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
United Nations Secretariat,
New York, August 7-10, 2001
. Research funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9908380
"
The Census in global perspective and the coming microdata revolution"; coauthor: Steven Ruggles.
The 14th Nordic Demography Symposium, Tjøme, Norway, 3-5 May, 2001. Research funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9908380
The missing millions: the human cost of the Mexican revolution, PAA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, March 27, 2001.
"Proyecto Col-IPUMS: Harmonizing the census microdata of Colombia, 1964-2003"; coauthor: Steven Ruggles.
Taller Col-IPUMS: Homologación de los microdatos censales de Colombia, Centro de Investigaciones sobre Dinámica Social (CIDS), Universidad Externado de Colombia. Marzo 23-24, 2001, Bogotá, Colombia. Research funded in part by the National Institutes of Health grant R01 HD37508-01A1
2000
"The missing millions: the demographic costs of the Mexican
revolution", VI Reunión Nacional de Investigación Demográfica en México,
Mexico City, Aug 1.
"A reality check
for IPUMSi: labor force participation of Mexican women--census microdata versus
employment surveys," Census 2000 and Beyond Conference, Cathie Marsh
Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester, June 22;
coauthor: Steven Ruggles.
"Opportunities and challenges in applying inverse projection,"
Workshop on Inverse Projection Techniques, Università degli Studi di Roma
"La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Statistica, Probabilità e Statistiche Applicate;
Sabaudia, Italy, May 25-27.
1999
"The missing millions: the demographic costs of the Mexican
revolution," X Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y
Canadienses, Fort Worth, Texas, November 19, 1999.
" The demographic impact of the Mexican revolution in the United States
;" coauthors: Myron P. Gutmann, Rodolfo Gutierrez-Montes, and Brian Gratton.
X Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, Fort Worth,
Texas, November 19, 1999.
"Revisioning
smallpox in Mexico Tenochtitlán, 1520-1950: What difference did charity,
quarantine, inoculation and vaccination make?" Convegno Internazionale
"Vivere in Citta", Poverty, Charity and the City, University of Rome "La
Sapienza", September 28, 1999 ; revised version given at the University of
Glasgow, June 11, 2000 .
"The Nahua calli of ancient Mexico: household, family, and
gender," Conference on the 30th anniversary of Household and Family in
Past Time, Palma de Mallorca, August 26.
1998
"A fourth type of family system: The calli (household) of ancient
Mexico: stem, joint, complex or compound?," XII International Economic
History Congress, Session C-18: The Stem-Family in Eurasian Perspective. Madrid,
August 26.
"Gender and the labor force: what can we learn from national census
microdata for 659,780 Colombian households--1973, 1985?," Seminario
Internacional, Programa de Estudios de Género, Mujer y Desarrollo, Bogota,
Colombia. May 6-9.
Calibrating
Paleodemography: The Uniformitarian Challenge Turned," American
Association of Physical Anthropology Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, April
1-4.
"Inoculation: An Easy
Means of Protecting People or Propagating Smallpox? Spain, New Spain and
Chiapas, 1779-1800," Boletín Mexicana de Historia y Filosofía de la
Medicina, vol. 2, nueva época (septiembre 1998).
1997
"Families and Gender in Mexico: a Methodological Critique and Research
Challenge for the End of the Millennium," IV Conferencia Iberoamericana
Sobre Familia: Historia de Familia, Cartagena de Indias, Sep. 8-12.
"Historia de familia y género: una perspectiva de 450 años," Décimo
Congreso de la Historia de Colombia, Medellín, Aug. 26-29.
"Latin American demographic history in the age of the World Wide Web:
National census samples as historical sources," 49th International Congress
of the Americanists, Quito, Jul. 7-11.
"El bilingüismo: el destino de Chiapas? La lengua dentro del seno de la
familia, 1970 y 1990," 49th International Congress of the Americanists,
Quito, Jul. 7-11; co-author: Heather M. Mills.
"Gender and 'Earthly Names' among the Rural Nahua," Third Carleton
Conference on the History of the Family, Ottawa, May 15-17.
"Mexican Women in the Labor Force, 1970 and 1990: Survival or
Opportunity?," Population Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, Apr.
24.
"Child Marriage and Complex Families Among the Ancient Aztecs,"
Population Association of America Annual Convention, Washington DC, Mar 27-29.
"A Quiet Revolution in the Mexican Labor Force: Gender, Education, and
Marriage--1970, 1990," Women's Employment, Marriage, and Population Change,
New Delhi, Mar 3-5. 1996
"Modificación de la nupcialidad y de las actitudes hacia el matrimonio en
México desde el siglo XVI," Colegio de Mexico Oct. 28 and Universidad
Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico), Oct. 29.
"Paleodemography: Science, Art or Artifice," University of Wisconsin,
Graduate Group in Demography, Jun 17.
"Health and Nutrition in Prehispanic Mesoamerican Populations,"
History of Nutrition and Health in the Americas, Ohio State University, Mar. 9.
co-author: Lourdes Marquez-Morfín.
"Paleodemography: What do graphics show that the statistics do not?,"
History of Nutrition and Health in the Americas, Ohio State University, Mar. 8
1995
"Paleodemography, Nutrition and Health in Ancient Mexico," Social
Science History Association Annual Convention, Chicago IL, Nov. 16.
"Rescates, descuidos, y saqueos: evidencia de la Nueva Guía de los
Archivos Históricos de Hidalgo del Parral (Chihuahua, México), Congreso
de Historia Regional Comparada, Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Nov. 9.
"Matrimonio infantil entre los antiguos nahuas," Congreso de Historia
Regional Comparada, Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Nov. 8.
"Fue el siglo XVI una catástrofe demográfica para México? Una respuesta
basada en la demografía histórica no cuantitativa," Vª Reunión Nacional de
la Investigación Demográfica en México, Colegio de México, Jun. 10.
"Matrimonio infantil entre los antiguos nahuas," Vª Reunión Nacional
de la Investigación Demográfica en México, Colegio de México, Jun. 7.
1994
"Child Marriage and Complex Families Among the Nahuas of Ancient
Mexico", Septièmes Entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier, "Les Systèmes
Démographiques Occidentaux du Passé," La Plagne (Aimes, France), Dec. 16.
"Smallpox and demographic catastrophe in Mexico: What can Spanish and
Nahuatl narratives tell us that numbers cannot?", IXth Reunion of Mexican
and North American Historians, Mexico City, Oct. 29.
"Gender in the Melting Pot: The Ethnic Marriage Squeeze in New York City,
1900-1980", International Economic History Conference, Milan, Sept. 16.
"Smallpox and demographic catastrophe in the conquest of Mexico: What can
narratives tell us that numbers cannot?," Population Association of America
Annual Convention, Miami FL, May 5.
"Marriageways in Mexico and Spain, 1500-1900," Conference on Latin
American History, San Francisco, CA Jan. 6.
1993
"Paradise, hells, and purgatories: Population, health and nutrition in
Mexican history and prehistory", A History of Health and Nutrition in the
Western Hemisphere, Ohio State University, September 16 and (in Spanish) VII
Simposio Juan Comas, Museo de Antropología, Mexico City, Nov. 19.
"Taller mínimo en demografía histórica," VII Simposio Juan Comas,
Museo de Antropología, Mexico City, Nov. 19.
"Tratos lícitos e ílicitos en México y España, 1500-1900," Familia y
Vida Privada: América siglos XVI a XIX, Mexico City, May 3.
"Sex-Ratio, Employment and the Marriage Squeeze in New York City,
1900-1980", 1993 International Workshop on Historical Demography, Tokyo,
January 28-February 3. 1992
"Courtship, Coupling and Concubinage. Marriageways in Mexico and Spain,
1500-1900", Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago IL,
November 7.
"Gender in the Melting Pot: Marital Assimilation in New York City,
1900-1980", Peopling of the Americas Conference, Veracruz, May 21.
"The Peopling of 19th Century Mexico: Critical Scrutiny of a Censured
Century", El Colegio de México, May 15.
1991
"Skeletal Biology and the Population History of Middle America",
Social Science History Association. New Orleans, November 1.
"Gender in the Melting Pot: Marital Assimilation in New York City,
1900-1980", 86th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Cincinnati, August 26.
"Inverse Population Projection Benchmarks: England, Sweden, and a Modern
Standard. Seminar on Old and New Methods in Historical Demography. Palma de
Mallorca, June 12. 1990
"A Non-parametric Population Projection Method Applied to Tropical
Africa", Institut Demographique de Paris, June 7.
"La Viuda viva del México borbónico: sus voces y vejaciones", l'Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, May 30.
"La Familia y la condición de la mujer: De la reconstitución a la
reconstrucción etnodemográfica", Université de Paris X (Nanterre), May 29.
"Los discursos nupciales en México colonial", l'Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, May 16.
"La voluntad y el gusto en la feria nupcial de Nueva Vizcaya", IVª
Reunión Nacional de la Investigación Demográfica en México, Colegio de México,
April 23.
"¿Por qué habían tantas viudas en México colonial?", Congreso de
Historia Regional Comparada, Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), March 28.
1989
"Qué hubiera ocurrido de no haberse presentado la transición demográfica
en México?: una simulación de proyección inversa", Centro de Demografía y
Desarrollo Urbano, Colegio de Mexico, November 28.
"La Viuda viva del México borbónico: sus voces, variedades, y
vejaciones", Symposium: La Familia en Mexico Colonial, Colegio de Mexico,
Depto. de Historia, Mexico, November 1.
"La transición demográfica a la chilena, 1850-2000", Instituto de
Historia, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, October 3.
"Familia, mujer, y fecundidad: Parral (Mexico), 1777-1930", Centro de
Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (Buenos Aires), September 4; and Seminario de la
Historia de la Familia, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Chile
(Santiago), September 22.
"Women's Position, Family and Fertility Decline in Parral (Mexico),
1777-1930", Congresso sobre Historia da Popula╡Γo da America Latina, Ouro
Preto (Brazil), July 6.
"How Well Does Inverse Projection Perform with Simulated Data?,
Dynamiques et Reconstitution des Populations du Passé, Institut National des
Etudes Démographiques, Paris, June 6. Co-author: James W. Vaupel.
"La posición de la mujer y cambios de fecundidad en la región de Parral,
1777-1930", Congreso de Historia Regional Comparada, Ciudad Juarez (Mexico),
April 6. 1988
"A Model of Population Change in Mexico (1500-2000), Using Populate",
Committee on Demographic History, Conference on Latin American History,
Cincinatti, Dec. 27.
Populate: A Microcomputer Program for Estimating Mortality and Fertility
from Counts of Births and Deaths", European University Institute Summer
School on Historical Demography, Florence, July 15.
"Isolation or Assimilation? A Log-linear Interpretation of Australian
Marriages, 1947-1986", European University Institute Summer School on
Historical Demography, Florence, July 14.
"Mortality Crises in Northern Mexico, 1632-1931", International
Congress of the Americanists, Amsterdam, July 5.
"Women's Position, Family and Fertility Decline in Parral (Mexico),
1777-1930", International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Conference on Women's Position and Demographic Change, Oslo, June 15.
1986
"Descenso de fecundidad en Mexico antes de 1930? Dos ejemplos de Tlaxcala
y Chihuahua", IIIª Reunión Nacional de la Investigación Demográfica en
México, Mexico City, November 5.
"Con ánimo de morar aquí: Marriage and Migration in Parral,
1774-1777", Latin American Studies Association, Boston, Mass., October 23