Subject: URGENT! Census 2000 PUMS (fwd)
From: Daniel Feenberg (feenberg@nber.org)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 09:17:35 EDT
FYI
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:33:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Caroline M. Hoxby <choxby@kuznets.fas.harvard.edu>
To: feenberg@nber.org
Subject: URGENT! Census 2000 PUMS (fwd)
Dan,
You should probably forward this message to the LS and PE lists at the
NBER, as we will all lose out if they change the PUMS as suggested.
Caroline
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Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 16:01:42 -0500
From: Steve Ruggles <ruggles@hist.umn.edu>
To: ipums-users@ipums.umn.edu
Subject: URGENT! Census 2000 PUMS
Dear IPUMS users:
The Census Bureau is considering significant reductions in the level of
subject and geographic detail for the 2000 PUMS files in order to enhance
confidentiality. As the Principal Investigator of the IPUMS project and
chair of the ICPSR Census 2000 Committee, I have been asked to attend a
meeting at the Bureau later this month to report how these changes might
affect users. No final decisions have yet been taken, but various measures
are under discussion. Although I do not have the specifics of any
proposals, I have heard that they include such steps as grouping ages for
persons 65 or older, providing only broad occupational groupings, reducing
the available detail on race, ancestry, and income, and reducing geographic
detail.
I would like to get your feedback on these issues before I meet with the
Bureau so I can fairly represent the concerns of IPUMS users. I would
therefore appreciate it if you could complete the brief survey at
http://www.ipums.umn.edu/~ipums/survey.html. I need the results as soon as
possible. The survey will remain open until May 16th, but it will help
greatly if you could complete the survey today or tomorrow. A high response
rate will strengthen the credibility of the results. I appreciate your help
on this, especially given the very short notice.
If you know of people who have used the IPUMS but who are not registered to
use the data extraction system, I would appreciate it if you would forward
this message to them.
If you do not want to receive email from IPUMS and would like us to remove
you from our list of registered users, please email ipums@hist.umn.edu and
ask to be removed, and accept my apologies for clogging your inbox.
Yours,
Steven Ruggles
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Steven Ruggles
Minnesota Population Center
537 Heller, University of Minnesota
271 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
FAX: (612) 624-7096
PHONE: (612) 624-5818
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