Import More Attributes from IPUMS
Import More Attributes from IPUMS |
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How To... > Work with Collections > Get Data into Fathom > Import U.S. Census Microdata from IPUMS > Import More Attributes from IPUMS Fathom offers a few dozen of the attributes available through IPUMS. The attributes fall into three categories: Year and Location, Person, and Household. Person attributes, such as age and total personal income, apply to individual people. Household attributes, such as number of bedrooms or monthly rent, apply to entire households. Each case has the household information repeated. If you want to analyze household information (such as proportion of households that are farms), you should import household records, not people records.
Within the Person and Household lists, attributes have been grouped further.
The attribute is added to the request (as can be seen in the list of currently requested attributes). Not all attributes are available for all years. (The Census Bureau didn’t always ask all of the questions it does now. Names are available only for data from 1920 or earlier.) You can see what years an attribute is available for by pointing at it with the cursor and reading Fathom’s status area in the lower left of the Fathom window.
See also Change Number of Cases Imported from IPUMS Import Specific Geographical Areas from IPUMS |
