Episode 3: Census and Migration
Trent Alexander, Associate Director of ICPSR, talks about a project linking every United States Census from 1850 all the way through present day and beyond to learn about how Americans moved, or how they stayed put. A transcript of this episode is available.
Links from this episode:
- ICPSR Bibliography of Data-Related Literature
- General Social Survey, 1972-2014 [Cumulative File] (ICPSR 36319)
- Mortality Detail Files, 1968-1991 (ICPSR 7632)
- Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File, 1940-1990: [United States] (ICPSR 9075)
- Nursing Home Consumer Preferences, United States, 2017 and 2019 (ICPSR 37969)
- Improving the Accuracy and Fairness of Pretrial Release Decisions: A Multi-Site Study of Risk Assessments Implemented in Four Counties, Indiana, 2015-2018 (ICPSR 37829)
- Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study [United States] Restricted-Use Files (ICPSR 36231)
- Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study [United States] Special Collection Restricted-Use Files (ICPSR 37519)
- Women’s Movements & Women’s Policy Offices in Western Postindustrial Democracies, 1970-2001 (ICPSR 30681)
- Video: Telling Generational Stories from the U.S. Census (from the 2019 ICPSR Biennial Meeting)
- Upcoming events and current job openings

ICPSR’s Trent Alexander shows attendees of the 2019 ICPSR Biennial Meeting a photo of a Census cave as he presents on “Telling Generational Stories from the U.S. Census.”
Episode 3 correction: ICPSR’s Maggie Levenstein is actually approaching her fifth anniversary as director. Apologies for the error.