New International Census Data

IPUMS has posted a set of new international census datasets. Here's a description of what's new there.

The data release includes 9 new countries -- Austria, Canada, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Malaysia, Netherlands, Panama, and United Kingdom -- as well as additional samples for China, Colombia, Mexico, United States, and Venezuela. The data series now contains 263 million person records from 111 censuses in 35 countries.

In addition to adding more samples, we have constructed location-of-mother and location-of- father data for all samples in the
data series. The parental locators identify the record number within the household of each person's mother or father.

It kind of blows my mind what IPUMS is doing. If you go there, peruse the data they've made electronically available. It's a ton of Census for the US, going back to the 19th century at least, as well as the Current Population Survey, some health surveys, and international census. A tremendous public good, for which I wish they could get some kind of award.

I've never dug into any of the international datasets on here, but I just noticed that they have Rwanda in 1991 and 2002 which would seem to let you get comprehensive information about the effects of the genocide, which occurred in 1994.