This 3-hour hands-on session aims to familiarize graduatestudents and faculty from CU with IPUMS(Integrated Public Use Microdata Series ) platform and help them in gettingdata ready for visualization in Tableauusing SPSS.It will enable you to tackle research questions on multidisciplinary study ofsocial and environmental phenomena. Questions can be addressed using IPUMS are:

•  How hasurbanization spread in developing countries in the fifty years?
•  How manypeople from India, Rumania, Mexico or South Korea are living abroad?
•  Havehousehold arrangements been changing from 1960 to the present? Is this aworldwide trend?
•  What arethe key determinants of poor health in developing countries? Which are thesignificant improvements of the last four decades?
•  HowAmericans have been changing their time use among cohorts? Are we working morethan in the 70s or 80s?
• What arethe differences in the time-use by sex, race and ethnicity, and age? Are thereany differences in this respect between Europe, Canada and the US?