Well, there it is. Official announcement that we won't have a PUMS for the 2020 decennial census. Instead, the Bureau will release privacy-protected microdata instead.

NEW: In Census Bureau surveys, Brazilians in the U.S. are not considered Latino due to the federal government’s definition of the term. But a coding error in a recent bureau survey provided insight into how many Brazilians identify that way. 1/4 pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023…

⚡️just electrified ⚡️that ColumbiaPublicHealth doctoral candidate Vivian Do's new paper is out in Nature Communications after completing ~1 million hours of data cleaning, we learned some things about power outages across 2,447 US counties doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Do you use IPUMS data? Take a minute to share your feedback. I promise this survey takes less time to complete than harmonizing 2.5 billion person records’ worth of data and making them freely available 😉

Please take 3 minutes to tell IPUMS how you use their data and what changes you would like to see. z.umn.edu/IPUMS-Survey A real person reads your responses (👋) and summarizes them so we can prioritize among suggestions of how to make IPUMS even better.

New delay in release of most detailed 2020 census data: apnews.com/article/2020-c…

WaPo columnists interpreting the affirmative action cases very differently!

New research from MPC Members J'Mag Karbeah J’Mag Karbeah, PhD, MPH & J. David Hacker J. David Hacker utilizes the training and resources of the MPC and the incredible power of IPUMS to look at this history of racial segregation and child mortality.U of M Research research.umn.edu/news/institute…

New metro definitions published! This is the big decennial update. Plus, it includes -- for the first time -- Connecticut metros defined using planning regions instead of counties. Thank you @OMBPress U.S. Census Bureau whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

August 1 is the deadline to submit an abstract for the 2023 Southern Demographic Association meeting. This year’s Southern Demographic Association meeting will be October 18-20 in San Antonio, TX. For more information about SDA and how to submit an abstract, click here: sda-demography.org

📣 We are hiring! Come and join us as a Senior Data Analyst. Be the point person for our IPUMS USA project adding linked full-count census data spanning the period 1850 to 1950. Learn more: assets.ipums.org/_files/jobs/35…

Tribal nations face less accurate, more limited 2020 census data because of privacy methods apnews.com/article/native…

Hurray! IPUMS USA now includes 2022 ACS data. 🎉 Also, be sure to check out improved versions of 19th century full count files and updated geography variables based on 2020 PUMAs! 👀 Come take a look at usa.ipums.org/usa/