IHGIS is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. The User Guide will walk you through using the data extract system, understanding the files in your extract, and basic mapping with IHGIS data. This guide focuses on the web-based IHGIS Data Finder. To get started using APIs for IHGIS and other IPUMS data collections, please visit the IPUMS Developer Portal or the home pages for our language-specific packages ipumsr (for R) and ipumspy (for Python).
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Using the IHGIS Data Finder - A step-by-step guide to finding the data you want and creating and downloading an extract.
- Part 2: What's in an Extract? - A tour of the data and metadata files you will recieve in your extract.
- Part 3: Mapping IHGIS Data - An introduction to joining IHGIS data tables to boundary files and making a basic map.