@HistDem

Historical demographer and data impresario Wired profile: https://nitter.cf/t.co/e5wKJzgOLv Data: https://nitter.cf/t.co/sZipGO8asb

 Minneapolis, MN
umn.edu/~ruggles
Joined October 2014
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My mom. news.yale.edu/2020/03/10/giv…

Giving economist Nancy Ruggles her due

The wife of Yale Professor Richard Ruggles, Nancy co-authored nearly all of his work despite receiving almost none of the credit she was due — until now.

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@DougJBalloon
Sep 23
Minnesota is a shit hole that I’m embarrassed to live in. Here’s why Minnesotans should make me their next senator. by Michele Tafoya
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I suspected this. They are so incredibly stupid. Trump’s Census Proposal Could Cut House Seats From Red States nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

Trump’s Census Proposal Could Cut House 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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I think @grok agrees that Musk is a mass killer.
@Steven Ruggles@HistDem
Sep 18
Replying to @grok
@grok Is Musk responsible for these deaths, given that he claims credit for putting USAID into the woodchipper?
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@DougJBalloon
Sep 14
(1/X) The following are as certain as the run rising tomorrow: (a) Trump will leave the US (and GOP) in shambles (b) Neither Trump nor anyone who facilitated him will pay a price (c) Ppl who accurately predicted how bad Trump2 would be will be portrayed as hysterical..
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Sep 9
This graphic is from my 2015 Presidential Address at the PAA, later published as "Patriarchy, Power, and Pay" (Link in reply)
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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Sep 8
Guys, the single-income, middle class household is a historical anomaly that basically only existed between the productivity boom of late industrialization & the global demand explosion for American industry after WWII. Women have brought in income for most of human history.
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This graphic is from my 2015 Presidential Address at the PAA, later published as "Patriarchy, Power, and Pay" (Link in reply)
Tiana Lowe Doescher
@TianaTheFirst
Sep 8
Guys, the single-income, middle class household is a historical anomaly that basically only existed between the productivity boom of late industrialization & the global demand explosion for American industry after WWII. Women have brought in income for most of human history.
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doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0… Or at NIH: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

Patriarchy, Power, and Pay: The Transformation of American Families, 1800–2015

Abstract. This article proposes explanations for the transformation of American families over the past two centuries. I describe the impact on families of the rise of male wage labor beginning in the...

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"I mean, that’s just dumb" Steven Ruggles, a professor at the University of Minnesota
Misty Heggeness@m_heggeness
Sep 5
“I think the fact that it’s rather complex and difficult to understand makes it a prime target for politically mischievous groups who want to sow distrust within systems and distrust within the government.” Misty Heggeness, professor at the University of Kansas
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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
Talking Points Memo
@TPM
Sep 4
A right-wing disinformation campaign is using completely false information about the Census Bureau to feed GOP delusions that immigrants are helping Democrats rig federal elections. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/h…

How a Baseless, Right-Wing Social Media Panic Led to Dramatic Changes at the Census Bureau

When longtime Indiana politician Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) lobbed a powerful allegation...

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I also said that DP in the 2020 Census was an overwrought response to a non-existent problem and should never have happened. That part didn't make it into the story. 2/2
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Talking Points Memo
@TPM
Sep 4
A right-wing disinformation campaign is using completely false information about the Census Bureau to feed GOP delusions that immigrants are helping Democrats rig federal elections. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/h…

How a Baseless, Right-Wing Social Media Panic Led to Dramatic Changes at the Census Bureau

When longtime Indiana politician Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) lobbed a powerful allegation...

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IPUMS International@ipumsi
Aug 26
Visitenos en el stand de IPUMS en el Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Población en la Universidad de Costa Rica! @ALAP_LA @INECCR @ipums
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Krystal Ball
@krystalball
Aug 19
Do they think this makes her look bad?
Reggie B.
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Aug 19
Fox News fear-mongering about socialist policies
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Aug 17
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
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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
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(I was on the Census Scientific Advisory Committee from 2012 to 2015 and was PAA president in 2015.) 2/2 doi.org/10.1215/00703370-127…
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Anna Bokun@AnnaMBokun
Aug 14
A nice new piece of institutional backstory on the Census microdata we use (by Magnuson & Ruggles)
Demography Journal@ReadDemography
Aug 14
In “Equally Available to Anyone,” @dldmag & @HistDem describe the story of the invention of the 1st microdata sample in interactions between Census Bureau staff & the PAA & how that collaboration “can be a model for preserving broad access" going forward. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
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Demography Journal@ReadDemography
Aug 14
In “Equally Available to Anyone,” @dldmag & @HistDem describe the story of the invention of the 1st microdata sample in interactions between Census Bureau staff & the PAA & how that collaboration “can be a model for preserving broad access" going forward. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
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John Iceland
@JohnIceland
Aug 14
Excellent read on the origins of public-use microdata, especially for those interested in the history of science and demography
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Aug 13
Curious about the invention of microdata? Our new paper in Demography reveals the story. 1/2
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Curious about the invention of microdata? Our new paper in Demography reveals the story. 1/2
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