Robert McCaa
April
2012
Current
Position:
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 cell: 952.33.IPUMS (952.334.7867) FAX: 612-626-8375
home webpage: www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa
mailto:rmccaa@umn.edu
Academic Employment
History:
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1999- Principal Investigator, IPUMS-International
projects
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2010-present 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 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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2009-2014 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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2009-2014 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.
Forthcoming
Publications
·
"
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. Co-authors: Albert Esteve, Joan
García.
2012
Workshops, papers and presentations
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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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"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.
·
"
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
·
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.
·
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
· " 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";
coauthor: 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; coauthor: 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"; coauthor: 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, 40:4(abril-junio), 579-614.
1990
· "Marriage, Migration, and a Willingness to Settle Down:
Parral (Nueva Viscaya), 1770-1788", in D. Robinson (ed.), Migration
in Colonial Latin America, New York: Cambridge University Press.
1989
· "Isolation or Assimilation? A Log-linear Interpretation
of Australian Marriages, 1947-1986", Population Studies 43:1
(March), 155-162.
· "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 Thomas Calvo
and Gustavo Lopez (eds.), Movimientos de Población en el Centro-Occidente de
México. Mexico City: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos,
265-279.
1985
· "Orphanhood and Adult Mortality in the Past: A Critique
of Latin American Data and Procedures", Latin American Population
History Bulletin, V:1(Fall), 7-10. Spanish translation in Notas de
Población, 13:38 (Agosto), 55-64.
1984
· "Calidad, Clase, and Endogamy in Colonial Mexico: The
Case of Parral, 1788-1790", Hispanic American Historical Review,
64:3 (August), 477-502.
· "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 Methods", Latin American Research Review, 13:2,
104-126.
1975
· "La documentación histórico-demográfica del `Norte
Chico', Chile", in Fuentes para la demografía histórica de America
Latina. México: Centro Latinoamericano de Demografía y Comisión de Historia
Económica Cuadernos 2:241-284. Co-author: René Salinas Mesa.
1972
· Chile: XI Censo de población (1940). Recopilación de cifras
publicadas por la Dirección de Estadística y Censos. Santiago: Centro
Latinoamericano de Demografía.
Workshops and presentations
2010
· Havana, Cuba: IPUMS-América Latina, Nov. 14-17.
· Aguascalientes, Mexico: INEGI meeting re 2010 census microdata
and GIS, Nov. 12
· Mexico City, Mexico: Colegio de México, IPUMS-International,
Nov. 9
· Mexico City, Mexico: Mexican Society for Demographic Study,
Nov. 3-6
· Barcelona, Spain: Center for Demographic Studies, WorldFam
Conference, Oct. 7-9
· Neuchatel, Switzerland: IPUMS-Europe seminar, Federal
Statistical Office, Sep. 9
· Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, Inequality in
Health Workers measured with IPUMS-International census microdata, Sep. 7-9
· Vienna, Austria: European Association of Population Studies
workshop, Sep. 2
· Amsterdam, Netherlands: International Congress of Historical
Demography, Roundtable on IPUMS census microdata, Aug 26 and presentation on
Large Databases, Aug 23.
· Mexico City, Mexico: Archivo General de la Nacion, training
session on capturing 1930 census data from forms, Aug 12-13
· Bridgetown, Barbados: Caricom Census Meeting, Jul 21-23.
· Geneva, Switzerland: UNECE Meeting on Census Data Quality, Jul
7-9
· Mexico City, Mexico: Colegio de México, IPUMS-International,
May 26
· Mexico City, Mexico: Colegio de México, IPUMS-Latin America
seminar on marriage and family, May 24.
· The Hague, Netherlands: UNECE Meeting on Register-based
censuses, May 9-11.
· Paris, France: Meetings with INSEE, CEPED, IRD, and INED, Apr
1-8
· New York City, NY: UNFPA Maternal Mortality experts meeting.
Mar. 18-20.
· New York City, NY: UN Statistical Commission Annual Meeting and
side meetings: UNDP, UNFP, etc. Feb 19-26.
Papers:
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2010
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· La complementariedad de censos y
encuestas en la estimación de indicadores de soltería
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with Albert Esteve and
Joan Garcia
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IV Congreso Asociación
Latino Americana de Población
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16-19 Nov, Havana,
Cuba
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· Marital homogamy and Mexican born in the
USA
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with Albert Esteve
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X REUNIÓN NACIONAL DE
INVESTIGACIÓN DEMOGRÁFICA EN MÉXICO
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3-6 Nov, Mexico City,
Mexico
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· Case study: understanding health workforce
inequalities in the United States from census microdata
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Technical workshop on
measuring health workforce inequalities from a census
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6-8 Sep, Geneva,
Switzerland
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D:\upweb\ipums_psd20100713.pdf
· IPUMS-International Statistical
Disclosure Controls: 159 Census Microdata Samples in Dissemination, 100+ in
Preparation
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Robert McCaa, Steven
Ruggles and Matt Sobek
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J. Domingo-Ferrer
and E. Magkos (Eds.): Privacy in Statistical Data 2010, LNCS 6344
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Springer, Heidelberg
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· Creating Statistically Literate Global Citizens: The Use
of IPUMS-International Integrated Census Microdata in Teaching
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Ann Meier, Robert McCaa and David Lam
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Statistical Journal of the IAOS (International
Association of Official Statisticians
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forthcoming
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· Maternal mortality in South Africa: An update from the
2007 Community Survey
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Michel Garenne, Robert McCaa and Kourtoum Nacro
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Journal of Population Research
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forthcoming
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· Register-based vs. traditional census microdata samples:
The IPUMS experience
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Robert McCaa
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Joint UNECE/Eurostat Expert Group Meeting on
Register-Based Censuses
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The Hague, The Netherlands, 10-11 May 2010
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· Disseminating internationally integrated census microdata
for the 2010 round and beyond: the Integrated Public Use Microdata
Series-International experience
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Robert
McCaa
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Joint
UNECE/Eurostat Group of Experts on Population and Housing Censuses Thirteenth
Meeting
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Geneva,
7-9 July 2010
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2009
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ppt (pdf)
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· Timely dissemination of integrated census microdata and
metadata: The IPUMS-International approach
· Diffusion des microdonnées et des métadonnées intégrées du
recensement : L'approche du projet IPUMS- international
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Robert McCaa and Patricia
Kelly-Hall
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5th Africa
Symposium on Statistical Development
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19-21 November
2009, Dakar, Senegal
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ppt (pdf)
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· Creating Statistically Literate Global Citizens: The Use
of Integrated Census Microdata in Teaching"
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Ann Meier and
Robert McCaa
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Second Arab
Statistical Conference
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Nov. 2-4,
2009, Tripoli, Libya
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ppt (pdf)
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· Entrusting census microdata and metadata for timely
integration and dissemination via the IPUMS-EurAsia and IECM initiatives,
2010-2014 <br
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· Russian translation
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Robert
McCaa and Albert Esteve
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UNECE
Conference Census Outputs to Meet User Needs
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Oct
28-30, 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
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ppt (pdf)
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· Implementing IPUMS-International Confidentiality Protocols
using CSPro/IMPS: 1991 Census Microdata of Saint Lucia,
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Michael
J. Levin and Robert McCaa
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17th
Meeting of the Regional Census Coordinating Committee (RCCC, CARICOM)
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Oct.
29, 2009, Castries, Saint Lucia
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ppt (pdf)
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· IPUMS-International: Resolving the
Challenges of Census Microdata Archiving, Integration and Dissemination
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Robert
McCaa
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UN-ECA
Africa Centre for Statistics Regional Workshop on Data Management
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Oct.
26-28, 2009, Kampala, Uganda
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ppt (pdf)
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· Maternal mortality in South Africa:An update from the 2007
Community Survey ,
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Michel
Garenne, Robert McCaa, and Kourtoum Nacro
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International
Union for the Scientific Study of Population
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Sep
27-Oct. 2, 2009, Marrakech, Morocco.
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ppt (pdf)
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· IPUMS-International: lessons from 10 years of archiving
and disseminating census microdata,
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Robert
McCaa and Wendy Thomas
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57th
International Statistics Institute
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Aug
16-22, 2009, Durban, South Africa
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ppt
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· IPUMS-International: Changing Patterns Of Use And Analysis
Of National Population Census Microdata And Metadata, 1999-2009,
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Robert McCaa,
Steven Ruggles, and Matt Sobek,
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24th ANCSDAAP
Population Census Conference
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23-25 March 2009,
Hong Kong SAR, China
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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,
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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.
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1986
· "Descenso de fecundidad en Mexico antes de 1930? Dos
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October 23
Software
· Populate: a population projection program for
historians and their students based on Ron Lee's inverse method
· SMAM: estimates the mean age at marriage from
census data using Hajnal's method.