IPUMS Documentation: User's Guide

Volume I: Overview

• Database design
• Variables
• Samples

Volume II: Complex variables

• Family interrelationships
• Geography
• Occupations and industries
• Other complex variables

Volume III: Creating censuses and samples

Part I. Administering the Census  

• Enumeration forms and instructions
• Detailed procedural histories for each census
• Books published by the Census Bureau after each census

Part II. Drawing Samples from Complete Census Data  

• Sampling procedures in each census
• Original codebooks for each census sample
• Editing procedures for missing and inconsistent values
• Other detailed procedures followed at the University of Minnesota

Volume IV: Translation tables

• Introduction
• Translation tables for all variables