There were questions asked in the census for which I don’t see variables in IPUMS-International. Where are the data?
Some countries did not supply variables for every census question. The census responses may never have been processed, or the variable may have been left out of the public use file because of confidentiality concerns. It is also possible we have the data, but have insufficient metadata to make it available at this time. When we add a sample, we harmonize only the core group of variables that we think most researchers would desire. Other variables can be accessed through the unharmonized variables. In some cases we give a harmonized IPUMS version of a variable but don’t allow access to the unharmonized version because it contains too much detail for purposes of confidentiality.