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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. The primary goals of the center are to foster large-scale cross-disciplinary research collaborations and to provide shared infrastructure for demographic research.〔 〕 The center now has 100 faculty affiliates from 10 University of Minnesota Colleges, over 50 graduate student affiliates and 120 administrative and research staff. The primary activity of MPC is demographic research; work at the center is divided into eight major themes: * 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.〔Matthew Sobek; Lara Cleveland; Sarah Flood; Patricia Kelly Hall; Miriam L. King; Steven Ruggles; Matthew Schroeder, "Big Data: Large-Scale Historical Infrastructure from the Minnesota Population Center." Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 44:2 (2011), pages 61-68.〕 These data collections include the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS),〔Steven Ruggles; Matthew Sobek; Miriam L. King; Carolyn Liebler; Catherine A. Fitch, "IPUMS Redesign," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 36:1 (2003), pages 9-19.〕 the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS),〔Catherine Fitch and Steven Ruggles, "Building the National Historical Geographic Information System," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 36:1 (2003), pages 41-51.〕 the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP),〔Steven Ruggles; Evan Roberts; Sula Sarkar; Matthew Sobek, "The North Atlantic Population Project: Progress and Prospects," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 44:1 (2011), pages 1-6.〕 and the Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS).〔Pamela J. Johnson, Lynn A. Blewett, Steven Ruggles, Michael E. Davern, and Miriam L. King, “Four Decades of Population Health Data: The Integrated Health Interview Series.” Epidemiology, 19:6 (2008), pages 872-875.〕 Over 40,000 demographic researchers worldwide are registered to use these data collections.〔 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minnesota Population Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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