Front Matter

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Preface — The Origins of IMAG: The International Microdata Access Group
                Lisa Y. Dillon

• 1.        Introduction — International Historical Microdata: A New Resource for Research and Planning

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I. National Microdata: Country-Specific Datasets Available for Research

• 2.        Argentina — The First National Historical Census Microdata

• 3.        Canada — The Canadian Families Project

                 Peter Baskerville

• 4.        China — Censuses of 1982 and 1990

                Wang Feng

• 5.        Colombia — Microdata Samples for Four National Censuses: 1964, 1973, 1985, and 1993

                Robert McCaa

• 6.        Denmark — The Danish Data Archive

                Nanna Floor Clausen, Hans Jorgen Marker

• 7.        France — Twentieth-Century Census Microdata

                Jean-Luis Rallu, Laurent Toulemon

• 8.        Great Britain — Microdata from the 1851 and 1881 Censuses

                Matthew Woollard

• 9.        Korea — Electronic Microdata of the Censuses of the Republic of Korea at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii

                Minja Kim Choe

• 10.     Mexico — Census Microdata: 1960, 1970, 1990, 1995

                Cecelia Rabell

• 11.     Netherlands — Historical Sample of the Netherlands

                Kees Mandemakers

• 12.     Norway — The Norwegian Historical Data Centre

              Gunnar Thorvaldsen

• 13.     Sweden-Stockholm — The Stockholm Historical Database

                Agneta Geshwind, Stefan Fogelvik

• 14.     Sweden-Umea — The Demographic Data Base at Umea University: A Resource for Historical Studies

                Soren Edvinsson

• 15.     Tuscany — Demography, Economy, and Society: Interdisciplinary Research on the Granduchy of Tuscany in the Mid-19th Century

                Carlo A. Corsini

• 16.      U.S.A. — IPUMS: Integrated Public Use Microdata for the United States

                Steven Ruggles, Catherine A. Fitch, Patricia Kelly Hall, Matthew Sobek

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II. Beyond Boundaries: Harmonizing National Microdata Across Time and Space

• 17.     Latin America — The Standardized Census Sample (OMUECE) of Latin America, 1959-1982

                Robert McCaa, Dirk J. Jaspers-Faijer

• 18.     Europe — PAU Census Microdata Samples Project

                Nikolai Botev

• 19.     Spatial Frameworks for Historical Censuses — The Great Britain Historical GIS

                Ian Gregory, Humphrey Southall

• 20.     IPUMS-International — A Global Project to Preserve Machine-Readable Census Microdata and Make Them Usable

                Robert McCaa, Steven Ruggles

• 21.     A Look into the Future — Using and Improving International Microdata for Historical Research

                Lisa Y. Dillon, Gunnar Thorvaldsen

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III. The World's Microdata: Inventories and Specifications of the World's Known Microdata

    Specifications for Available Machine-Readable Census Microdata

                Susan Brower, Rebecca Dennison, Jocelyn P. Shelton

    Inventory of Known, Machine-Readable Census Microdata (Revised August 2001)

                Susan Brower, Rebecca Dennison, Jocelyn P. Shelton