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International Population Census Publications for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1990-2005. Printed volumes of Latin American tabular data, held by the U.S. Census Bureau International Library (subset of larger, comprehensive collection held by the Census Bureau), per Lara Cleveland at IPUMS.

The Census Bureau participates in an international publication exchange with counterpart national statistical agencies, a program that has contributed many publications within the Bureau's International Collection. The Bureau's International Collection began growing substantially with the Census Bureau’s increased international analytical and technical assistance activities in the post-World War II years. The entire collection was cataloged at the turn of the millennium and moved to its current location in 2007.

Through a joint project, CRL and IPUMS will digitize and preserve data from printed population census volumes from the U.S. Census Bureau's international collection. The University of Minnesota already has agreements with more than 100 countries to disseminate census microdata samples and related census documentation for scholarly and policy research use. IPUMS is confident that the vast majority, if not all, agreements cover dissemination of published reports.

The first phase of the project will produce high quality digital scans of Latin American historical census results. 

Reasons for consideration: 

Recomended by Lara Cleveland, IPUMS.  The Census Bureau's International Collection is among the very largest of its kind in North America and contains nearly 115,000 volumes. Statistical materials from countries around the world as well as “sub-collections” of UN materials, periodicals, and the general/reference resources compose the collection. Many materials are in the native languages of the country of origin. Special historical items within the collection include the 1899 Census of Cuba and other that substantially pre-date the assembly of the International Collection. 

Data from published census volumes are currently unusable for systematic scientific analysis because they are locked in thousands of paper documents, PDF files, and spreadsheets dispersed across hundreds of websites and libraries. Furthermore the formats of the data tables are heterogeneous and lack machine-processable metadata. The production of high-quality scans from census reports would be a significant contribution to the world’s population data infrastructure. The long-term data series will be an invaluable resource for understanding population and social dynamics over a period of historically rapid change.

Author(s): 
Various
Publisher(s): 
Various
Source Format: 
Paper
Target Format: 
Digital
Program: 
GCI Latin America
Resource Types: 
Dataset
Government documents
Regions: 
Latin America and Caribbean
Countries of Origin: 
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Trinidad and Tobago
Uruguay
Venezuela
Posted: 
Mar 10, 2017 6:23pm
Updated: 
Jun 28, 2018 4:19pm
Source Details
Major Languages: 
Spanish
Portuguese
French
Holding Institutions: 
U.S. Census Bureau Library
Physical Details: 

Published volumes of national censuses from Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Intellectual Property Considerations: 

Public data unencumbered by copyright restrictions. May be rights in the compilation of particular volumes. 

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