Steven Ruggles
@stevenruggles.bsky.social
Historical demographer and data impresario Wired profile: https://www.wired.com/1995/03/ruggles/ Publications: https://users.pop.umn.edu/~ruggl001/ Data: https://www.ipums.org/
Please have a look these proposed catastrophic changes to the Census and post a comment to the public feedback form. Thanks. #econsky @stevenruggles.bsky.social handsoffourcens.us
Hands Off Our Census
The Census Bureau has proposed unprecedented changes to the 2030 Census. Public comment closes November 2, 2026. Here's what's proposed and how to weigh in.
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A huge congratulations to Ellora Derenoncourt on being named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow! We've been following her impressive work for years. A very well deserved honor. https://bit.ly/4dx5kGX
Ellora Derenoncourt
Uncovering the roots and ongoing drivers of racial disparities in wealth and income mobility in the United States.
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Minnesota getting a representative from the place where all the inbred ICE dipshits come from is just the first step of reparations.
Steven Ruggles@stevenruggles.bsky.social · last mo.I suspected this. They are so incredibly stupid. Trump’s Census Proposal Could Cut House Seats From Red States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I suspected this. They are so incredibly stupid. Trump’s Census Proposal Could Cut House Seats From Red States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Census Proposal to Exclude Some Immigrants Could Cut Seats From Red States
A Trump administration proposal to block some immigrants from the 2030 census could shift congressional seats away from Republican states, a New York Times analysis found.
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What I meant was that in the final implementation of 2020 DP the epsilon was so high that the noise infusion had only minor consequences for usability. But it is truly crazy paranoid to think that any version of DP was biased against Repubs. More here: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
B Jarosz@datageekb.bsky.social · 2mo ago"After years of tests, Ruggles said he was satisfied that the amount of noise was so miniscule, it wouldn’t compromise data quality. Today, right-wingers seem to be seizing on that controversy, contorting early, valid concerns... into an ongoing, devious and misleading political campaign."
I argued in the Journal of Economic Perspectives that DP was a huge mistake for the Census and I hope we do not go back there. But you have to be seriously stupid to think that DP is somehow biased against republicans. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Jens von Bergmann@jensvb.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’d love to have in-depth discussions about differential privacy, I have conflicting thoughts. But this is just hijacking the term to ride a conspiracy theory. It’s not about the census or differential privacy. Yes, it’s just dumb. Glad we are not there (yet) in Canada, let’s keep it that way.
"I mean, that’s just dumb" Steven Ruggles, a professor at the University of Minnesota
Layla A. Jones@laylaayanna.bsky.social · 2mo agoRight-wingers have spun a complex statistical method (that they don't understand) into a completely baseless conspiracy theory that has spread from the courts, to social media, to the White House. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-b...
I did say this: “crazy, insane, right-wing conspiracy theories that somehow differential privacy and disclosure control more broadly is somehow biased towards Democrats or something — I mean, that’s just dumb" 1/2
Layla A. Jones@laylaayanna.bsky.social · 2mo agoRight-wingers have spun a complex statistical method (that they don't understand) into a completely baseless conspiracy theory that has spread from the courts, to social media, to the White House. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-b...
Amy O’Hara wrote up a longer piece on all of the red flags in the ‘Census’ report on noncitizen voting. mdi.georgetown.edu/response-to-...
Dissecting the “Beginning Analysis” of Noncitizen Voting - Massive Data Institute
Author: Amy O’Hara, Director of the Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University Rigorous scientific research into voting in U.S. elections consistently finds ...
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No researcher’s name is on Census Bureau report Trump uses to claim the 2020 election was stolen countofcounting.substack.com/p/no-researc...
No researcher’s name is on Census Bureau report Trump uses to claim the 2020 election was stolen
NO STATISTICIAN OR researcher at the U.S.
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Check out this workshop held tomorrow by the NIA, Big Data to Big Insights: Challenges and Opportunities in Aging and AD/ADRD Research, featuring David Van Riper. Experts will explore how the expansion of large-scale data resources is reshaping research on aging and AD/ADRD https://bit.ly/3S8NWkd
Big Data to Big Insights: Challenges and Opportunities in Aging and AD/ADRD Research
Read about, and register, for a one-day online workshop about large-scale data resources that are reshaping research on aging and Alzheimer's and related dementias.
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This graph from our new paper on the invention of microdata shows the involvement of PAA presidents with the Census Bureau from 1930 to 2019. The tiny grey bar on the right of the graph represents me. 1/2
countofcounting.substack.com/p/census-bur...
Census Bureau needs to figure out how to land the plane after Commerce Department’s order on privacy methods
WHAT’S AMAZING ABOUT the Commerce Department’s recent decision to restrict the types of privacy protections statistical agencies can use is how little consideration there was to its real-world impacts...
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This graph from our new paper on the invention of microdata shows the involvement of PAA presidents with the Census Bureau from 1930 to 2019. The tiny grey bar on the right of the graph represents me. 1/2
This graph from our new paper on the invention of microdata shows the involvement of PAA presidents with the Census Bureau from 1930 to 2019. The tiny grey bar on the right of the graph represents me. 1/2
In “Equally Available to Anyone,” @dldmagnuson.bsky.social & @stevenruggles.bsky.social describe the story of the invention of the 1st microdata sample in interactions btw Census staff & PAA & how that collaboration “can be a model for preserving broad access." read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
Our colleagues at the Census Bureau and elsewhere in the federal government are *critical* to demography! They always have been and we abandon and ignore them at our own peril!
Steven Ruggles@stevenruggles.bsky.social · 2mo agoCurious about the invention of microdata? Our new paper in Demography reveals the story. doi.org/10.1215/0070...
Nice endorsement from the top Census historian! Thanks Margo!
@datahistorian.bsky.social · 2mo agoA great read!
Curious about the invention of microdata? Our new paper in Demography reveals the story. doi.org/10.1215/0070...
My paper on the "Pig in the Python" is now available with no paywall from NIH. I argue that the demand for young workers will grow dramatically over the coming decades, likely leading to rising wages, stronger unions, and lower inequality. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
My paper on the "Pig in the Python" is now available with no paywall from NIH. I argue that the demand for young workers will grow dramatically over the coming decades, likely leading to rising wages, stronger unions, and lower inequality. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
I suspect your experience is unusual for most of Minneapolis. I walk two miles to work through the Glendale housing project and the dense commercial district of Washington Avenue, and I've never seen a syringe.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field@wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe entire 10 months we were in NYC, I saw only one syringe on the street. A carefree existence! As a result, my kid forgot what they are, and now we’re back in Minneapolis and restarting the urgent lessons about “never, ever touch or get close, and tell an adult so they can clean it up safely.”
@stevenruggles.bsky.social captivates #DIRC2026 participants with his keynote address, The Book of Life: Building National Longitudinal Research Infrastructure. @umnlifecourse.bsky.social @ipums.bsky.social
New working paper from Ritikaa Khanna, @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @astokespop.bsky.social, @atheendar.bsky.social, & me We apply a new lens to the great (non-Covid) debate of US mortality studies: What's up w the 2010s? It emphasizes that US longevity worsened against a background of increasing $$
The U.S. Mortality Crisis as a Preston Curve Reversal
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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I don't get the relevance of Minnesota's white population, but they put my picture in the paper today. www.startribune.com/ramstad-why-...
