Citation

Ruggles S. Demography 2013; 51(1): 287-297.

Affiliation

Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 225 19th Ave South, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA, ruggles@umn.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Population Association of America, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s13524-013-0240-2

PMID

24014182

Abstract

This article describes an explosion in the availability of individual-level population data. By 2018, demographic researchers will have access to over 2 billion records of accessible microdata from over 100 countries, dating from 1703 to the present. Another 2 to 4 billion records will be available through restricted-access data enclaves. These new resources represent a new kind of data that will enable transformative research on demographic and economic change and the spatial organization of society.

Language: en