microdata

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Data that researchers and web developers use to show details about single people and items

noun
/ˈmaɪkroʊˌdeɪtə/

Specialized

: microdatos

In the past couple of decades, there have been numerous attempts to build structural models of transportation behavior using microdata from household surveys.
household microdata
microdata set
Public-Use Microdata

Examples

A second estimation challenge concerns differences in population coverage and measurement between these microdata sets.

Academic text (2016)
The first key difference between the two sets of microdata is the unit of analysis.

Academic text (2016)
Top income and wealth shares are first estimated using the Survey of Consumer Finances, a household survey microdata set collected by the Federal Reserve Board.

Academic text (2016)
One element of this research program has been microdata analysis based on large-scale longitudinal surveys of youth.

Academic text (1998)
For example, the microdata could include tags designed to facilitate privacy tracking and the retraction of privacy-sensitive information.

Blog text (31)
Different categories of ethnic identity for married American Indian women were defined using the 1980 census enumeration and the 1980 Public-Use Microdata Sample.

Academic text (1991)
Our measures of income inequality are defined over pretax, posttransfer household income using microdata from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 censuses.

Academic text (2016)
With data from the Public Use Microdata Sample of the 2009 American Community Survey (ACS), we focused on two activity limitations: (1) self-care difficulty (difficulty dressing or bathing) and (2) difficulty living independently (difficulty doing errands alone).

Academic text (2013)
In addition, using the public-use microdata samples from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2000, Albrecht and Albrecht (2009) reported significant earnings advantages for persons with some college over those with a high school diploma or below (unadjusted for covariates).

Academic text (2011)
The research team used microdata from various surveys to analyze the impact of education on income levels.

Synonyms

dataset

vsmicrodata

Specialized

23 3.5

A set of related facts or numbers organized for study

is focused on individual records offering detailed information about each person or item

Surface Forms

microdata singular

microdatas plural

Morphology

microdata = data (semi-transparent) = micro + data

The word is built transparently from micro- plus data, but the specialized sense of detailed individual-level data is somewhat technical and not fully predictable for all learners.

Etymology

Microdata comes from the small prefix micro-, from a Greek word meaning 'small', and data, meaning 'facts' or 'information'. So, microdata are 'small pieces of information' about single people or things, which is why the word means detailed information about individuals.