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Integrated Metadata Exploration Tutorial for Variable Selection

Learn how to explore, select, and extract integrated metadata in a single file for variables across multiple countries and years. Gain insights on variables, codes, comparability discussions, and more.

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Integrated Metadata Exploration Tutorial for Variable Selection

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  1. Explore variables metadata (18 slides) • Click “Browse and Select Data”: • to view integrated metadata • and to get microdata (make an “extract”)Note: the data are “pooled” into a single file–select as many countries & years as you wish. Press <spacebar> to continue tutorial

  2. Variables metadata: 7 topics (18 slides) • Explore metadata: variables • Lists of variables • Integrated variables • Unharmonized variables • Characteristics (click any variable mnemonic) • Description • Comparability discussions: general & detailed • Universe (to whom is the variable addressed) • Codes • Availability

  3. Integrated Metadata: Variables Menu First, click here, to select samples (the default is “all samples in the database”) Tip: Do not start here unless you wish to see variables for all samples (takes time to construct and download).

  4. Integrated Metadata: Variables Check one or more boxes to select samples First, check boxes to select samples. Then, click “submit sample selections”. If not, choices are not selected.

  5. Integrated Metadata: Variables Menu Second, click “Options”, to set preferences for navigating metadata Only start here if you want to see all samples at once (takes time to construct and download).

  6. Integrated Metadata: List VariablesClick “Household”, “Person” or “A-Z” Click “show all groups together” to see all variables at once Click “Apply selections” to continue

  7. Integrated Variable list for selected samples:Click to select. Scroll down to see more. Check any box to to select variablefor extract

  8. Integrated Variable list for selected samples:Note technical and constructed variables Family interrelationship (“Pointer”) variables locate co-residing mother, father and spouse --an IPUMS “value-added”

  9. Integrated Variable list for selected samples:Fertility, mortality, nativity, birthplace, etc. Fertility and mortality variables Nativity and Birthplace variables

  10. Integrated Variable list for selected samples:Fertility, mortality, nativity, birthplace, etc. Education variables Work variables Migration variables

  11. Integrated Metadata: Unharmonized variables • For experienced users only: • Toggle here, to select unharmonized variables. • Note: each unharmonized variable is specific to only 1 sample (yes, even age and sex). • Unharmonized variables are useful to understand how the coding of an integrated variable is constructed.

  12. Integrated Metadata: Unharmonized variables Unharmonized variables are coded ~same as the original source microdata(with minor exceptions).

  13. Variable descriptions: Toggle “integrated variables” and view details of any variable To toggle to integrated variables Click here, and pause for a second for the screen to refresh.

  14. Click a variable name for description, codes, availability, universe, comparability, unharmonized variables and other metadata Click here, to view metadata for CLASSWK.

  15. Integrated metadata for CLASSWK: description, comparability, universe, codes, availability, questionnaire text, etc. Click any tab to view detailed metadata

  16. CLASSWK: description, comparability discussion general and detailed Study the metadata to understand definitions, similarities and differences for each variable, country and sample.

  17. Click “codes” to view codes, labels and case counts (sample frequencies) for each varible Click “codes” to see codes and case counts (frequencies)

  18. CLASSWK general “codes” availability Click here, to toggle between general and detailed views

  19. CLASSWK detailed “codes” availability • Note distinction in Thailand beginning in 1990 between white/blue collar/ public worker. • IPUMS rule: “integrate” not standardize.

  20. CLASSWK detailed “codes” case count viewNote: case counts are not weighted Click “View cart” to continue

  21. This tutorial focused on 7 IPUMS metadata topics: • Explore metadata: variables • Lists of variables • Integrated variables • Unharmonized variables • Characteristics • Description • Comparability discussions: general & detailed • Universe (to whom the variable applies) • Codes • Availability • Source documents Want more? View tutorial on “sources”

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