Workshop “Global Integration of Population Microdata: Challenges for the 2010 Round” 

Delegates:  Official statisticians attending the annual meeting of the UN Statistical Commission

Sponsor:  Minnesota Population Center (MPC), University of Minnesota
Hosts:  Columbia University: School of International Public Affairs (SIPA) and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

Major funding for IPUMS is provided by:  University of Minnesota, National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health of the USA

Agenda  (ver. Feb. 18)

Saturday, February 23, 2008, 09:00-18:00.  Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Kellogg Building 15th Floor (see following pages for directions and maps)

* * * REGISTRATION and payment of per-diem begin at 8:00 AM with complimentary continental breakfast * * *

  8:00     Complimentary continental breakfast, on-site registration, payment of per-diem

  9:00     Introduction:  IPUMS-International Workshop                
      Chair: Mr. Evelio Fabbroni, Inter-American Statistical Institute

§            Welcome: John Coatsworth, Director SIPA

§            IPUMS-International update and challenges: Robert McCaa, Coordinator, IPUMS-International.
Annexes:  Microdata Inventory     IPUMS-Global Executive Summary     Challenges for 2010 Round: Legal, administrative and technical

§            An Outsider’s Report on the IPUMS project:  Dennis Trewin, past-Australian Statistician and chair UN-ECE Committee on “Managing Statistical Confidentiality and Microdata Access”
Annexes:  Trewin Report on IPUMS     IPUMS case study to UNECE report on Statistical Confidentiality

§            Discussion

 10:00 Challenge:  Fast, Flawless integration and dissemination of 2010 round census microdata and metadata.

§            Integration: Matt Sobek, Project Manager, IPUMS-International

§            Confidentiality, legal and administrative issues: Robert McCaa

§            Dissemination, Matt Sobek

§            Discussion

11:00     Coffee break

11:30     Reports:

§            Brazil, Eduardo Pereira Nunes, President IBGE, and Zélia Bianchini, Deputy Director of Surveys IBGE

§            Germany, Andrea Harausz, Research Data Centre, Federal Statistical Office

§            India, Sula Sarkar, Research Specialist, MPC

12:30     Lunch, hosted by MPC

13:30     Reports:

§            South Africa, Pali Lehohla, Statistician General, Statistics South Africa

§            Sudan, Prof. Awad Hag Ali, Director General, Central Bureau of Statistics; and Robert McCaa, MPC

§            Users and Uses, Patt Kelly, Executive Director, IPUMS-International

14:30     IPUMS value-addeds

§            Recovering microdata from tapes and other old media, Chris Muller (Muller Media)

§            Rehabilating microdata for trend analysis, Michael J. Levin (Harvard) 

§            Using census microdata to analyze sub-national differences:  the case of maternal mortality, Kenneth Hill (Harvard)

§            Discussion

15:30     Coffee break

16:00     Synergies of a global microdata collaboratory: 

§            Climate and Ecology: Susana Adamo, CIESIN (Columbia University)

§            REDATAM, free, fast software for microdata storage, public access tabulation and analysis: Dirk Jaspers, UN-CELADE (Santiago, Chile)

§            IPUMS-REDATAM, an on-line tabulator of integrated microdata:  Antonio Lopez, CED (Barcelona) and MPC

§            Discussion

17:00     The way forward:  Best Practices

§            The challenge for Africa, Ben Kiregyera (Director, African Centre for Statistics)

§            Census microdata, gender statistics and millennium development goals, Denise Lievesley (President, ISI)

§            Discussion

18:00     Adjourn

20:00     Dinner, hosted by MPC: Kellari Taverna restaurant 19 WEST 44TH STREET.

Workshop Goals:  

  1. Assess accomplishments and shortcomings of IPUMS-International, 1999-2008
  2. Identify solutions for fast, flawless integration of 2010 round of census microdata and documentation in official languages and English translation. 
  3. Report on experiences of specific countries in recovering, archiving, integrating, and disseminating census microdata, including in cooperation with IPUMS-International
  4. Address questions and concerns regarding any aspect of the IPUMS projects

Web-sites:  https://international.ipums.org                                www.umn.edu/~rmccaa/IPUMSI  
Directions to SIPA (see map below or http://sipa.columbia.edu/about_sipa/visitor_info.html):

The Columbia campus on Morningside Heights is located at Broadway and 116th Street in Manhattan. The School of International and Public Affairs is located at 420 West 118th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive. Be aware that when you enter the building, "street level" is considered the fourth floor.

Five bus lines (M4, M5, M11, M60, M104) and one subway line (the #1 local) serve the Columbia neighborhood. The M60 bus is a direct link between campus and LaGuardia Airport. The Columbia stop is 116th Street. Note that if you take the express trains #2 or #3, you must transfer to the #1 local at 96th Street. The #2 and #3 trains do not stop at Columbia University.

Taxi fare from near the United Nations to SIPA is approximately US$22-27, including 10% tip for good service

 

 

Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs is circled in red.   
Complimentary continental breakfast, on-site registration and payment of per-diem begins at 8 am. 
Note the building does not open until  8am on Saturdays.

 

Delegates are cordially invited to dine at 8pm, as guests of the IPUMS-International project at the Kellari Taverna (star on map), 19 WEST 44TH STREET tel. 212.221.0144.
Dinner is by reservation.  Please email pkelly@umn.edu, if you wish to make a reservation.
It may be possible to obtain a reservation at the workshop on Saturday, if there is a cancellation.

 

The red circle indicates the Tudor Hotel at the UN, where the Minnesota Population Center team is staying:  304 East 42nd Street New York City, 10017  (212) 986-8800