IPUMS International Team

Lara Cleveland

Project Director, Senior Research Scientist
clevelan@umn.edu

IPUMS Data Projects

IPUMS International
RIDIR

Research Interests and Project Expertise

Data and methods; occupations and work; sociology of law

Biography

Dr. Cleveland is a principal research scientist who directs the international census and survey projects of IPUMS. I am responsible for strategic planning, new data development, and partner relations with country statistical offices, UN organizations, and data NGOs. I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota and have worked with IPUMS for more than 15 years

My research interests include data and methods; geographic variable harmonization and development; organizations, occupations, and work; and global standardization practices. I have worked on a variety of initiatives to improve and extend the utility of census and survey microdata for research use including variance estimation, sample documentation, geographic harmonization, household asset indices, a secure access research data enclave, and the development of teaching materials for IPUMS.

Selected Works

Sobek, Matthew and Lara Cleveland. 2017. "IPUMS Approach to Harmonizing International Census and Survey Data." Working Paper 31 from the Conference of European Statisticians, Group of Experts on Population and Housing Censuses. Geneva: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. ECE/CES/GE.41/2017/31.

Jeffers, Kristen, Miriam King, Lara Cleveland, and Patricia Kelly Hall. 2017. "Data Resource Profile: IPUMS-International." International Journal of Epidemiology 46(2).

Ruggles, Steven, Robert McCaa, Matthew Sobek, and Lara Cleveland. 2015. "The IPUMS Collaboration: Integrating and Disseminating the World's Census Microdata." Journal of Demographic Economics 81(2): 203-216.