Electronic Dissemination and Support of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series

该奖项支持综合公共用途微数据系列(IPUMS)的电子传播。该项目由NICHD提供部分资金。IPUMS是世界上最大的公共使用人口数据库，包含了140年来美国人口普查的大约6900万条记录。万维网(WWW)的发展正在改变电子数据传播的性质，就像快速个人计算机和Unix工作站的激增使数据分析发生了革命性的变化一样。该项目充分利用了这两方面的发展，使最大和最强大的人口数据库易于在台式计算机上进行分析。该项目由两个相辅相成的要素组成。第一个需要开发一个在WWW上使用的数据提取系统。基于Java的交互式摘录系统将结合各种高级功能，使研究人员能够定制他们的数据摘录。该项目的第二个要素涉及将综合管理信息系统的文件翻译成超文本格式，以方便导航。该系统将与密歇根大学和威斯康星大学的领先数据档案馆和人口中心协调设计。这两所大学的人口中心都同意无限期地支持撤离制度。此外，这些机构将与大学间政治和社会研究联盟一起，就该系统的设计和实施提供咨询意见。该项目将是社会科学研究基础设施中的一项关键的多学科资源。拟议项目的意义不仅限于对综合平台管理系统的支持和传播；它还可以作为更广泛地传播微数据的范本。D？

This award supports electronic dissemination of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS). The project is partially funded by NICHD. The IPUMS is the world's largest public-use demographic database, containing approximately 69 million records for the U.S. census over a period of 140 years. The development of the World Wide Web (WWW) is transforming the nature of electronic data dissemination just as the proliferation of fast personal computers and UNIX workstations has revolutionized data analysis. This project capitalizes on both of these developments by making the largest and most powerful population database readily available for analysis on desktop machines. The project is composed of two complementary elements. The first entails the development of a data extraction system for use on the WWW. The interactive Java-based extract system will incorporate a variety of advanced features enabling researchers to customize their data extracts. The second element of the project involves the translation of the IPUMS documentation into hypertext format to facilitate navigation. The system will be designed in coordination with leading data archives and population centers at the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin. The population centers of both of these universities have agreed to support the extraction system indefinitely. Moreover, these institutions, together with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, will provide advice on the design and implementation of the system. This project will be a key multi-disciplinary resource in the research infrastructure of the social sciences. The significance of the proposed project is not limited to the support and dissemination of the IPUMS; it can serve as a model for the distribution of microdata more generally. Dß