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Census IPUMS Research
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is the world's largest individual-level population database. IPUMS consists of microdata samples from United States and international census records, as well as data from U.S. and international surveys. IPUMS data includes name, age, gender, place of birth, income, race or ethnicity, marital status, education, and employment. This is a Census copy of the IPUMS data for use in the FSRDC. This dataset contains historical IPUMS data. For the 1940 data, request the 1940 IPUMS data (1026)
Detailed Methodology
Sample
Sample varies by survey. For more information see https://usa.ipums.org/usa/sampdesc.shtml
Method of data collection
- Administrative records
Frequency of data collection
- Irregular