IPUMS-International: Free, Worldwide Microdata Access Now for Censuses of 62 Countries--80 by 2015

The Minnesota Population Center (MPC), through the IPUMS-International census microdata project, archives the world's largest stock of census microdata and documentation. A decade of labor assiduously scouring local, national, regional, and international archives on every continent is beginning to bear fruit. Microdata for over 350 censuses for more than 120 countries are safely ensconced in the MPC digital archives. Metadata from more than 900 censuses are catalogued and now being disseminated world-wide without cost in cooperation with National Statistical Institute (NSI) partners and the Integrated Health Survey Network, using the latest international standards for electronic metadata. 5,000 researchers representing more than ninety countries are registered to access confidentialized, integrated microdata without payment and with complete academic freedom—