Developing IPUMS.jl: A Pure Julia Interface to IPUMS for Health Research Applications and Beyond

IPUMS is the “world’s largest available individual database of census microdata”, providing survey data and census records from across the world. IPUMS houses several projects, to furnish a wide variety of datasets that are applicable in a variety of domains. The primary objective of this proposal is to develop a native Julia package to interact with the APIs built around IPUMS datasets, provide useful utilities in this package to manipulate IPUMS data sources, and compose this package with the broader Julia ecosystem to enable novel research in health, economics, and more. Additionally, a long term goal will be to situate IPUMS.jl as another viable IPUMS SDK alternative in the official IPUMS project and to interoperate with these other SDK offerings.