Steven Ruggles
Department of History, University of Minnesota 55455
ruggles at pop.umn.edu
(612) 624-5818

Steve Ruggles, director of the Minnesota Population Center, presents honorary mugs Friday during the official opening of the center’s new space in Willey Hall. Ruggles said the center houses the largest collection of population data in the world. (MN Daily, 2/21/05)

Research Activities

· Curriculum Vitae

· Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Selected Recent Research

Steven Ruggles and Misty Heggeness. 2008. “Intergenerational Families in Developing Countries.” Population and Development Review 34: 253-281. link

Steven Ruggles, “The Decline of Intergenerational Coresidence in the United States, 1850-2000.”American Sociological Review. 72: 962-989 link

Steven Ruggles, “Linking Historical Censuses: A New Approach.” History and Computing 14: 1+2 (2006), 213-224. link

Steven Ruggles, “The Minnesota Population Center Data Integration Projects: Challenges of harmonizing census microdata across time and place” 2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Government Statistics Section, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, pp. 1405-1415. link

Catherine Fitch, Ron Goeken and Steven Ruggles, “The Rise of Cohabitation in the United States: New Historical Estimates.” Minnesota Population Center Working Paper (March 2005). link

Patricia Kelly Hall and Steven Ruggles, “‘Restless in the Midst of their Prosperity’: New Evidence of the Internal Migration Patterns of Americans, 1850-1990.” Journal of American History 91:3 (2004), 829-846. link

Steven Ruggles and Catherine A. Fitch, “Trends in African-American Marriage Patterns.” Presented at the University of Washington Center for Research on Families, April 9, 2004. link

Steven Ruggles, “Multigenerational families in nineteenth-century America.” Continuity and Change 18:1 (2003), 139-165. link

Steven Ruggles and Susan Brower, “The Measurement of Family and Household Composition in the United States, 1850-1999.” Population and Development Review 29:1 (2003), 73-101. link

Steven Ruggles, “The Measurement of Family and Household Composition in Census 2000: An Update.” Population and Development Review 29:2 (2003), 480-482. link

Steven Ruggles et al., Building Historical Data Infrastructure: New Projects of the Minnesota Population Center. Two Special issues, Historical Methods, 36:1 (Winter 2003) and 36:2 (Summer 2003). Introduction, Redesign, International, NAPP, NHGIS, 1880 Project

Selected Earlier Papers

Steven Ruggles, “The Limitations of English Family Reconstitution.” Continuity and Change 14 (1999), 105-130. link

Steven Ruggles, “The Rise of Divorce and Separation in the United States, 1880-1990.” Demography 34 (1997), 455-466. link

Steven Ruggles, “The Effects of Demographic Change on Multigenerational Family Structure: United States Whites 1880-1980” In Alain Bideau, A. Perrenoud, K.A. Lynch and G. Brunet, eds., Les systèmes demographiques du passé. Lyons: Centre Jacques Cartier, 1996, pp. 21-40. link

Steven Ruggles, “The Transformation of American Family Structure.” American Historical Review 99 (1994), 103-128. link

Steven Ruggles, “The Origins of African-American Family Structure.” American Sociological Review 59 (1994), 136-151. link

Steven Ruggles, “Migration, Marriage, and Mortality: Correcting Sources of Bias in English Family Reconstitutions.” Population Studies 46 (1992), 507-522. link

Steven Ruggles, “The Demography of the Unrelated Individual 1900-1950.” Demography 25:4(1988), 521-536. link

Miriam King and Steven Ruggles, “American Immigration, Fertility Differentials, and the Ideology of Race Suicide at the Turn of the Century.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20:3 (1990), 347-369. link

Courses

· History 1301 Web Page

· History 5011 Web Page

· History 5797 Web Page

· History 5854 Web Page

· Nordisk forskerkurs i historie

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