Summary
IPUMS offers free, harmonized census and survey data from the U.S. and around the world. IPUMS individuals within family and community contexts. This workshop will provide an overview of IPUMS data relevant for studying families and specialty variables and tools to help researchers contextualize families in line with the conference theme of light and shadow. We will demonstrate how to use the IPUMS data access system and online analysis tools, provide guided hands-on exploration of the IPUMS data websites, and offer consultations to participants about research ideas using IPUMS data.

IPUMS offers free harmonized census and survey data from the U.S. and around the world. IPUMS data streamline the research process, making it easier to explore change over time, conduct comparative research, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. IPUMS is offering a limited number of stipends for individuals who attend our TCRM workshop session (Studying Families in Context With Population Data From IPUMS) on Tuesday, November 15, held as part of the 2022 NCFR conference. Stipends will cover the cost of the TCRM registration; recipients must attend the Studying Families in Context With Population Data From IPUMS session. Stipend request applications must be received by Wednesday, November 9.

Summary
This archive contains data from a 40-year research project studying families with adolescents in the U.S. and Japan. Included are video tapes of marital and family discussions during home interviews and copies of a family projective exercise. There are also data from telephone interviews when the original adolescents reached midlife, focusing on their well-being and questions about the relationship between elder parents and adult children. Also interviews with parents who abused their children. The goals for the workshop are to brainstorm future qualitative and quantitative research possibilities for these data and to find others who might use these data.