Minnesota Population Center

The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center at the University of Minnesota. MPC was established in 2000, absorbing two earlier population research organizations.^[1] The primary goals of the center are to foster large-scale cross-disciplinary research collaborations and to provide shared infrastructure for demographic research.^[2] The center now has 100 faculty affiliates^[3] from 10 University of Minnesota Colleges,^[4] over 50 graduate student affiliates^[5] and 120 administrative and research staff.^[6]

Overview

The Minnesota Population Center on the campus of the University of Minnesota

The primary activity of MPC is demographic research; work at the center is divided into eight major themes:^[7]

• Large-scale demographic data infrastructure
• Work, family, and time-use
• Historical demography
• Education, labor, and the life-course
• Healthcare access and health disparities
• Census and survey methodology
• Unions and sexuality
• Population and environment

MPC is the producer and distributor of the world's largest demographic data collections.^[8] These data collections include the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS),^[9] the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS),^[10] the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP),^[11] and the Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS).^[12] Over 40,000 demographic researchers worldwide are registered to use these data collections.^[8]

See also

• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)