Hi,
I am planning a course on Working with Data on a ship so internet access is unreliable. I want to download the entire 2024 ASEC (March CPS) and then I could make smaller datasets for student use.
I tried various searches on this forum and the closest I got was Estimating Storage Requirements for Complete IPUMS Database
ChatGPT is also no help. It wants me to sit there and add variables to the cart one at a time. There has to be a better way?
The cpsmar24.pdf says there are 144,625 records (which I confirmed by downloading Age). I then searched for “Values:” and got 1.050 (from pp 6A-1 to 6C-70) so that is how many variables there are. (I also counted the lines in section G, but got only 1,018 so that is inconsistent.)
Excel can easily hold 150K x 1K so it seems doable. Can a helpful IPUMS expert show me an easy way to download the entire 2024 ASEC?
Thank you (for any help you can give me and thanks to everyone at IPUMS!)
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The IPUMS data access system is designed to facilitate the creation of customized datasets; it doesn’t have an automated way to capture all variables for a given sample.. However, in IPUMS CPS, when selecting samples, the variables displayed will be limited to only what is available in your selected samples. Each variable group at the household and person level has a (+ +) icon that will select all variables in that group. You will have to do this for each variable group to add those variables to the cart. Once you have submitted a data extract, you will have access in My Data to the specifications you made in that extract (select Revise), so you would not need to repeat the variable selection process again. You may also be interested in our Teaching Resources.
Alternatively, we do offer API access to IPUMS data that may be better suited to your needs.
Screenshot of the Work group of variables highlighting the double-plus add all icon:
Thank you very Much for this helpful reply!
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