Understanding ICPSR - An Orientation and Tours of ICPSR Data Services and Edu...ICPSR
This is ICPSR's core workshop deck designed to introduce, remind, and refresh your knowledge of ICPSR. It contains four "tours" or sub-presentations describing ICPSR's general reason for being, it's social and behavioral research data complete with search strategies, its training, educational, and instructional resources, and its data management and curation services, data repository options, and support resources (content and budget estimates) for those writing grant proposals.
This slide deck provides an overview and resources to respond to the OSTP memo with the subject: Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research issued by John P. Holdren in February 2013. It provides resources and information agencies, foundations, and research projects can use to assemble achieve public access to scientific data in digital formats.
Agencies such as the NSF and NIH require data management plans as part of research proposals and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is requiring federal agencies to develop plans to increase public access to results of federally funded scientific research. These slides explore sustainable data sharing models, including models for sharing restricted-use data. Demos of these models and tips for accessing public data access services are provided as well as resources for creating data management plans for grant applications.
Instructional Data Sets from Q-step Launch Event (Univ of Exeter) 3-20-2014ICPSR
Presentation about using social science data in the classroom and creating (and finding) resources with which to do it. Addresses both substantive courses and research methods/statistics courses.
A review of ICPSR's 50 year history as a research data archive and an overview of the data services it currently offers as well as data services in development
Understanding ICPSR - An Orientation and Tours of ICPSR Data Services and Edu...ICPSR
This is ICPSR's core workshop deck designed to introduce, remind, and refresh your knowledge of ICPSR. It contains four "tours" or sub-presentations describing ICPSR's general reason for being, it's social and behavioral research data complete with search strategies, its training, educational, and instructional resources, and its data management and curation services, data repository options, and support resources (content and budget estimates) for those writing grant proposals.
This slide deck provides an overview and resources to respond to the OSTP memo with the subject: Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research issued by John P. Holdren in February 2013. It provides resources and information agencies, foundations, and research projects can use to assemble achieve public access to scientific data in digital formats.
Agencies such as the NSF and NIH require data management plans as part of research proposals and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is requiring federal agencies to develop plans to increase public access to results of federally funded scientific research. These slides explore sustainable data sharing models, including models for sharing restricted-use data. Demos of these models and tips for accessing public data access services are provided as well as resources for creating data management plans for grant applications.
Instructional Data Sets from Q-step Launch Event (Univ of Exeter) 3-20-2014ICPSR
Presentation about using social science data in the classroom and creating (and finding) resources with which to do it. Addresses both substantive courses and research methods/statistics courses.
A review of ICPSR's 50 year history as a research data archive and an overview of the data services it currently offers as well as data services in development
Data in The Classroom: It's Not Just for Nerds Anymore!ICPSR
These slides provide resources for real, interactive, and fun data faculty can bring into the classroom for great discussions and paper assignments designed to get students thinking critically. You don't need to be a numbers guru to do it! These slides also emphasize the value of data and numbers to students in getting great jobs and in understanding the world around them.
Apo presentation research librarians day feb 2017SusanMRob
Engagement & Impact through Open Access policy and Practice research & Resources via Australian Policy Online by Amanda Lawrence - presented at the Research Support Community Day 2017
Slides | Targeting the librarian’s role in research servicesLibrary_Connect
Slides from the Nov. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Targeting the librarian’s role in research services" with Nina Exner, Amanda Horsman and Mark Reed. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=223121
Transforming liaison roles for academic librarians is critical, as universities are moving to position themselves to meet the demands of a more competitive national research environment. At La Trobe University, librarians are repackaging current research support services to streamline and incorporate these more efficiently into the researcher’s life cycle, in order to support the University’s research initiatives
Your digital humanities are in my library! No, your library is in my digital ...Rebekah Cummings
A presentation on the intersection of libraries and digital humanities presented at the Utah Digital Humanities Symposium at Utah Valley University on February 26, 2016.
Let's Work Together: UCD Research, UCD Library & AltmetricsUCD Library
Presentation given by Michael Ladisch, UCD Bibliographic Services Librarian, and Joseph Greene, UCD Research Repository Librarian, at CONUL Annual Seminar, June 3-4, 2015, Athlone, Ireland.
This presentation was provided by Suzie Allard (Univ Tennessee - Knoxville) during a NISO Virtual Conference on Data Curation, held on Wednesday, August 31
February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Building Best Practices in Research Data Management: Tisch Library’s Initiatives
Regina F. Raboin, Science Research and Instruction Librarian/ Data Management Services Group Coordinator, Tisch Library, Tufts University
Slides | Research data literacy and the libraryColleen DeLory
Slides from the Dec. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Research data literacy and the library" with Sarah Wright, Christian Lauersen and Anita de Waard. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=226043
RDAP 15 Local ICPSR Data Curation Workshop Pilot ProjectASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2015
Minneapolis, MN
April 22-23, 2015
Linda Detterman, Jennifer Doty, Jared Lyle, Amy Pienta, Lizzy Rolando and Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh
Promoting Open Access and Open Educational Resources to FacultyNASIG
Heather Crozier, presenter
Student debt is a compelling issue and many institutions are investigating solutions to ease the financial burdens of their students. Increasing the use of open educational resources benefits students by reducing course costs. Adopting OER in the classroom allows faculty more freedom in choosing instructional tools. Faculty also benefit from open access publishing by increasing their exposure. However, on the campus of a small, private institution, attendance at workshops to spread awareness and increase the use of these materials was minimal. Faculty had the perception that free resources could not be the same quality as traditional resources. In order to dispel this myth, the Electronic Resources Librarian and Educational Technology Manager collaborated to create custom one hour sessions for individual departments, leveraging library/faculty liaison relationships and the expertise of the office of educational technology. In the session, faculty learn more about open access publishing options, the value of open educational resources, the quality of many open educational resources, and where to find these resources. The session uses the course management system to both disseminate the information shared in the session and create a forum for departments to share resources with each other. Through the CMS, faculty gain access to vetted resources. All attendants have editing privileges within the site after the workshop, allowing them to curate course-specific lists for sharing and future reference. Pilot sessions have been well received and wider implementation is planned for the next academic year.
Presentation for the American Sociological Association's Department Affiliates Webinar Series. Discussion of using quantitative data in courses throughout the undergraduate curriculum, including why it's a good practice, how it can be done, and where one can find resources that make it easier.
Data in The Classroom: It's Not Just for Nerds Anymore!ICPSR
These slides provide resources for real, interactive, and fun data faculty can bring into the classroom for great discussions and paper assignments designed to get students thinking critically. You don't need to be a numbers guru to do it! These slides also emphasize the value of data and numbers to students in getting great jobs and in understanding the world around them.
Apo presentation research librarians day feb 2017SusanMRob
Engagement & Impact through Open Access policy and Practice research & Resources via Australian Policy Online by Amanda Lawrence - presented at the Research Support Community Day 2017
Slides | Targeting the librarian’s role in research servicesLibrary_Connect
Slides from the Nov. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Targeting the librarian’s role in research services" with Nina Exner, Amanda Horsman and Mark Reed. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=223121
Transforming liaison roles for academic librarians is critical, as universities are moving to position themselves to meet the demands of a more competitive national research environment. At La Trobe University, librarians are repackaging current research support services to streamline and incorporate these more efficiently into the researcher’s life cycle, in order to support the University’s research initiatives
Your digital humanities are in my library! No, your library is in my digital ...Rebekah Cummings
A presentation on the intersection of libraries and digital humanities presented at the Utah Digital Humanities Symposium at Utah Valley University on February 26, 2016.
Let's Work Together: UCD Research, UCD Library & AltmetricsUCD Library
Presentation given by Michael Ladisch, UCD Bibliographic Services Librarian, and Joseph Greene, UCD Research Repository Librarian, at CONUL Annual Seminar, June 3-4, 2015, Athlone, Ireland.
This presentation was provided by Suzie Allard (Univ Tennessee - Knoxville) during a NISO Virtual Conference on Data Curation, held on Wednesday, August 31
February 18 2015 NISO Virtual Conference Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
Building Best Practices in Research Data Management: Tisch Library’s Initiatives
Regina F. Raboin, Science Research and Instruction Librarian/ Data Management Services Group Coordinator, Tisch Library, Tufts University
Slides | Research data literacy and the libraryColleen DeLory
Slides from the Dec. 8, 2016 Library Connect webinar "Research data literacy and the library" with Sarah Wright, Christian Lauersen and Anita de Waard. See the full webinar at: http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/library-connect-webinars?commid=226043
RDAP 15 Local ICPSR Data Curation Workshop Pilot ProjectASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2015
Minneapolis, MN
April 22-23, 2015
Linda Detterman, Jennifer Doty, Jared Lyle, Amy Pienta, Lizzy Rolando and Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh
Promoting Open Access and Open Educational Resources to FacultyNASIG
Heather Crozier, presenter
Student debt is a compelling issue and many institutions are investigating solutions to ease the financial burdens of their students. Increasing the use of open educational resources benefits students by reducing course costs. Adopting OER in the classroom allows faculty more freedom in choosing instructional tools. Faculty also benefit from open access publishing by increasing their exposure. However, on the campus of a small, private institution, attendance at workshops to spread awareness and increase the use of these materials was minimal. Faculty had the perception that free resources could not be the same quality as traditional resources. In order to dispel this myth, the Electronic Resources Librarian and Educational Technology Manager collaborated to create custom one hour sessions for individual departments, leveraging library/faculty liaison relationships and the expertise of the office of educational technology. In the session, faculty learn more about open access publishing options, the value of open educational resources, the quality of many open educational resources, and where to find these resources. The session uses the course management system to both disseminate the information shared in the session and create a forum for departments to share resources with each other. Through the CMS, faculty gain access to vetted resources. All attendants have editing privileges within the site after the workshop, allowing them to curate course-specific lists for sharing and future reference. Pilot sessions have been well received and wider implementation is planned for the next academic year.
Presentation for the American Sociological Association's Department Affiliates Webinar Series. Discussion of using quantitative data in courses throughout the undergraduate curriculum, including why it's a good practice, how it can be done, and where one can find resources that make it easier.
ICPSR: Resources for Use in Undergraduate InstructionICPSR
This presentation was given at an ICPSR Lunch and Learn on 2-24-2010. Resources that can be used in undergraduate social science education were discussed and the slides/notes should contain enough information that they can be used by others to promote these resources.
This presentation describes TeachingWithData.org, a collection of resources for faculty who want to include data in their undergraduate social science courses. The presentation was given at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (Atlanta) by John Paul DeWitt (SSDAN) and Lynette Hoelter (ICPSR)
Meeting Federal Research Requirements for Data Management Plans, Public Acces...ICPSR
These slides cover evolving federal research requirements for sharing scientific data. Provided are updates on federal agency responses to the 2013 OSTP memo, guidance on data management plans, resources for data management and curation training for staff/researchers, and tips for evaluating public data-sharing services. ICPSR's public data-sharing service, openICPSR, is also presented. Recording of this presentation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_erMkASSv4&feature=youtu.be
Data Sharing with ICPSR: Fueling the Cycle of Science through Discovery, Acce...ICPSR
Data Sharing with ICPSR was presented at IASSIST 2015 in Minneapolis, MN.
The learning objectives and content cover:
- Federal data sharing requirements and
other good reasons to share data
• Options for sharing data
• Protection of confidentiality when
sharing data
• Data discovery tools
• Online data exploration tools from ICPSR
This is an update on the status of federal requirements for data sharing in 2015. These slides were presented at ACRL in Portland in March 2015, by Linda Detterman and Jared Lyle of ICPSR, based at the University of Michigan. The session includes overviews of federal requirements, data curation, data management plans, data sharing services, and lots of fun!
These are the slides and text used for webinar given on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 on the new web page for the Life of a Dataset, and depositing data at ICPSR.
Presentation by Stuart Lewis of the University of Edinburgh. It was presented at the LSHTM Research Data Services workshop on June 30th 2015, an event organised to mark the end of LSHTM's Wellcome Trust funded RDM project.
Stuart Macdonald talks about the Research Data Management programme at the University of Edinburgh Data Library, delivered at the ADP Workshop for Librarians: Open Research Data in Social Sciences and Humanities (ADP), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 18 June 2014
Presentation given by Sarah Jones and Joy Davidson to a group of South African librarians at a webinar organised by LIASA HELIG. http://www.liasa.org.za/node/977
Trailblazing in the Wilderness of Data ManagementStephanie Wright
Presentation to Montana State University faculty and librarians. Suggestions for services and collaborations for consideration in development of a new data management program.
Staffing Research Data Services at University of EdinburghRobin Rice
Invited remote talk for Georg-August University of Göttingen workshop: RDM costs and efforts on 28 May in Göttingen. Organised by the project Göttingen Research Data Exploratory (GRAcE).
Data in the HS Classroom: When, Why, and How?ICPSR
Presentation given as part of the High School Teachers of Sociology Workshop at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2012 (Denver, CO).
Quantitative Literacy: Don't be afraid of data (in the classroom)!ICPSR
This presentation was conducted at the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, April 11, 2012. It contains several links to interesting data and statistics, not too complex, that can easily be introduced for discussion in the classroom.
This is Part III of a workshop presented by ICPSR at IASSIST 2011. This section focuses on data management including data management plans, secure computing environments, and restricted data contract management.
Spice up your lecture with Inquiry-based LearningICPSR
This presentation is a part of ICPSR's monthly Webinar series. It describes inquiry-based learning and how using data in the college classroom can help foster deeper learning. TeachingWithData.org, a repository of social science materials, was introduced.
Many federal funding agencies, including NIH and most recently NSF, are requiring that grant applications contain data management plans for projects involving data collection. To support researchers in meeting this requirement, ICPSR is providing a set of tools and resources for creating data management plans. This presentation will covers:
• ICPSR’s Data Management Plan Website
• Suggested Elements of a Data Management Plan
• Example Data Management Plan Language
• Designating ICPSR as an Archive in a Data Management Plan
• Additional Resources for a Preparing Your Data Management Plan
Presented by Amy Pienta, Research Scientist, University of Michigan
Using Quantitative Data in Teaching: ICPSR ResourcesICPSR
These slides are from a presentation given at the 2010 American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences meetings (Las Vegas, NV). It is an introduction to how and why instructors might want to use real data in their undergraduate social science courses and what resources ICPSR provides to assist them in doing so.
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This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
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2. Introduction
• ICPSR’s Elevator Story
– What is an “ICPSR”
– Why do people use ICPSR
• ICPSR Website
– The Study Home Page
– Data Tools
• ICPSR in Education
• Other Data Services
3. What is ICPSR?
- Then and Now -
• One of the world’s oldest and largest social
science data archives, est. 1962
• Data distributed on punch cards, then reel-
to-reel tape, now:
– Data available on demand
– Over 8,200 studies with over 68,700 data sets
• Membership organization among 21
universities, now:
– Currently about 715 members world-wide
– Federal funding of public collections
4. What We Do – It’s About Data!
• Seek research data and
pertinent documents from
researchers (PIs, research
agencies, government)
• Process and preserve the
data and documents
• Disseminate data
• Provide
education, training, &
instructional resources
5. Why People Use ICPSR
• Write articles, papers, or theses using real
research data
• Conduct secondary research to support findings
of current research or to generate new findings
• Use as intro material in grant proposals
• Preserve/disseminate primary research data
– Fulfill data management plan (grant)
requirements
• Study or teach quantitative methods
6. Supporting a growing number of
disciplines
• Anthropology • Health & Medical Policy
• Business/Economics • History
• Communications • International Relations
• Criminal Justice • Law/Legal Services
• Demography • Political Sciences
• Education • Psychology
• Foreign Policy • Public Policy
• Gerontology • Sociology
7. We are Not Alone!
Another Acronym: CESSDA
Council of European Social Science Data Archives
8. Niche Archives
• ARDA – Association of Religion Data Archives:
http://www.thearda.com/
• The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research:
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
9. Back to ICPSR - Most Popular Downloads this Past Year:
• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
• General Social Surveys (1972-2010 Cumulative)
• National Survey on Drug Use and Health
• World Handbook of Political & Social Indicators III
• National Survey of Midlife Development in the US
• Chinese Household Income Project
• American National Election Study: 2008 Pre- and Post-Election
Survey
• Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study
• Globalization Comparative Panel Dataset
• India Human Development Survey
10. What’s in a “Download?”
• Documentation files - pdfs • Data in many forms!
– Questionnaire – SPSS, SAS, Stata
– Codebook – ASCII
– Description & Citation
11. “Shopping” for Data: The MyData Account
• MyData account – operates as authentication and like a
shopping cart!
• Authenticate once every six months on campus and you
can carry it with you
12. Supporting the Data
• Free user support
• The HELP Page offers:
– User support (at ICPSR) email and phone contact
information
– Data User Help Center: Short Tutorials & Webinars
available 24/7
– Local Support: Who to contact at your local institution
– Glossary of Terms
– Social Networks: Where you can find us on YouTube,
Facebook, Twitter, Slideshare, and more
15. The Challenge – Hoards of Data & Metadata
How does one make sense of:
• 8,200 studies
• 68,700 datasets
• 585,000 files
• Millions of variables
• 62,500 bibliographic citations
18. The Bibliography of Data-related Literature
It’s really a searchable database . . .
containing over 62,500 citations of known published
and unpublished works resulting from analyses of
data archived at ICPSR
. . .that can generate study bibliographies
associating each study with the literature about it
. . . Included in the integrated search
on the ICPSR Web site
20. The Social Science Variables Database at ICPSR
Enables ICPSR users to:
• Search & Compare Variables across
datasets
• Assists in:
– Data discovery
– Comparison/harmonization projects
– Data harvesting & data analysis
– Question mining for designing new research
– Research methods & substantive courses
instruction
25. ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative
Methods
• Instruction on the tools and practices needed to analyze data
• For those with math phobia and those with advanced analysis
skills
• 3-5 day workshops and 4-8 week courses
• Primarily held in Ann Arbor, MI,
on the campus of The University
of Michigan, but some courses
on other campuses also
• http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/
26. Bringing Data Into the Classroom
• Easy to use features of ICPSR’s Website in classes
– Social Science Variables Database
– Bibliography of Data-Related Literature
– SDA
• Additionally, in partnership with teaching faculty, ICPSR has
developed:
– Short Exercises – the DDLGs
– Online teaching modules
– Online tutorials
– Student research opportunities
29. Research Opportunities for Students
– Research paper
competitions -- a
research journal
experience & cash
prizes!
– Paid student internships
focusing on
investigating social
sciences research
31. ICPSR Data Hosting Services
From Full-Service Archives To Al a Carte Data
Management
• Data (website) hosting
• Preservation
• Data Sharing & Impact
• Data Outreach &
Engagement
• Data security & tracking
32. The Statement Heard Round the
Research World:
• The National Science Foundation has released a new
requirement for proposal submissions regarding the
management of data generated using NSF support. Starting in
January, 2011, all proposals must include a data management
plan (DMP).
• The plan should be short, no more than two pages, and will be
submitted as a supplementary document. The plan will need to
address two main topics:
– What data are generated by your research?
– What is your plan for managing the data?
36. Secure Data Services - Restricted-use Data
• Potential increase in demand for data
management services as a result of
grant/contract requirements
• Increase in demand for processing, analysis, and
distribution of sensitive data
• Resulted in improvements focused on secure
computing and data sharing environments at
ICPSR
37. Three Angles of Security
• Secure Ingest
• Secure Online Application & Tracking
• Secure Computing in the Cloud
39. For More Info:
• Explore the website - www.icpsr.umich.edu
• Sign up for our email announcements -
www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/membership/lists/index.jsp
• “Like” ICPSR on Facebook/follow ICPSR on Twitter
• Attend or view our webinars (open to the public!)
• Find our presentations on www.slideshare.net –
user: icpsr
• Contact user support – netmail@icpsr.umich.edu
Editor's Notes
As of September 2012, over 68,700 datasets (over 585,000 files) available for download. As a sense of volume of downloads, total downloads for FY 2012 = over 1,172,304 datasets downloaded/accessed (4,765,641).Also in FY2012 – about 35,345 (19,600 members) MyData accounts downloaded/accessed something – were active.
ICPSR supports students, faculty, researchers, and policymakers.
Archiving and sharing data is a global activity.
There are a number of niche archives. These archives tend to focus on a substantive area or topic and put really cools tools around them.
Downloads for the period July 2011 - June 2012
We keep talking about “the download.” What’s in a download anyway?First: Many PDFsA copy of the actual questionnaire – it’s not pretty!A copy of the codebook – much more attractive & it contains frequencies!Description & Citation: essentially, the data about the data (metadata) as well as the data citation you are to use when citing the dataset as a source.Second: The actual data file(s)System files for SAS, SPSS, & StataASCII files – straight-up data file and/or Setups files for SAS, SPSS, Stata
As you seen, ICPSR doesn’t just deliver data. We surround that data with tools and services that support its use and interpretation.
This is the front office for ICPSR employees.
This is the front office for our customers!FIND & ANALYZE DATA: this is the page where you can find several tools to help you find/browse data (you can also use the search box in the center of the Find Data page). The Search/Compare Variables link enables you to examine and compare variables and questions across studies or series.Find publications enables you to search (or submit!) citations for works that use ICPSR data as part of analysis.Resources for students covers information on the research paper competition and our paid internships.You’ll find links to our thematic collections (also known as our special topic archives or projects) in the left-hand pane. MEMBERSHIP IN ICPSR: this page contains all the information about the consortium (history, mission, staff overview, careers, and contact information). This area contains the list of members and a list of partners. You’ll find our subscribed Email Lists here – important if you are interested in our webinars, summer program, or other news about the consortium. Need printed promotional materials on ICPSR or templates for workshops? – see the Promoting ICPSRlink.DEPOSIT DATA: this page is for those interested in depositing data at ICPSR or preparing data in good form for long term preservation. Also, links to discussion of protection of respondent confidentiality are found here.ICPSR Summer Program: contains information on the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods including course descriptions, fees, and registration.RESOURCES FOR INSTRUCTORS: contains short data-driven exercises and modules, resources for students (careers/internships information), and links to other data-related teaching resources.DATA MANAGEMENT: describes ICPSR's practices in selection and appraisal of data, ingest, access and dissemination, and disaster planning. Provides information on digital preservation, data management plans and data citations.CONTACT US: information on contacting various ICPSR staff is found by clicking on the “Contact” link at the bottom of each page.
The Study Home Page is also a great “search” strategy. Click into any study, and you will find all the information we have been able to gather about the study.Use the Summary for a quick review, then click into the “view details” to understand the full scope of the research – methodology, survey type, sampling, scope, geography, subject terms used to tag the dataset, PI, and much more. You’ll also find a link to all of the journal articles, reports, and presentations we’ve been able to link to the dataset (where the data was used as part of the analysis within the article). This is a great way to understand whether this data is for you.
What’s in the collection?Resources using data in the ICPSR holdings as the primary data sourceResources using ICPSR data in a comparison with the primary dataset investigatedResources "about" an ICPSR dataset or study series.
Know of reports, articles, publications connected to our data? Contact us!
Tool for teachingResearch Methods:Concept operationalizationEffect of question wording, context, and answer categories on variable distributionsSubstantive classes:Cultural / social changes reflected in different question wordings, or elicited answers (longitudinal or time series data)Current content:2,602 studies (48 percent of ICPSR holdings with data and setups)6,493 datasetsApprox. 1.7 million variablesContinues to grow by includingAll new releases, if suitableRetrofits as made available by small-scale projects
ICPSR is working with Berkeley to render SDA in a format that will allow us to customize the appearance of the interface and results.View SDA studies here: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/access/sda.jsp Over 725 as of Fall 2011.
Gender variable by occasions smoked marijuana variable
Instructional materials are another way to “share” research data – in addition to educating the next generation.
Exploring Data Through Research LiteratureDesigned to teach quantitative research methods to undergraduates in a different way. Integrates ICPSR bibliography of data related literatureinto teaching students how make their way from ideas to empirical work to literature and back. Suitable for both research methods and other substantive courses requiring empirical researchhttp://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/EDRL/index.jspInvestigating Community and Social CapitalUses 3 data sets including the General Social Survey, DDB Needham Life Style Surveys, and State-level data to reproduce findings from Robert Putnam’s Bowling AloneTeaches how to browse codebooks, devise and execute crosstabulations, and use summary statistics Helps teach replication of scientific evidence http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICSC/index.htmlSETUPSUses the 2008 National Election Study to understand voting behavior (2004 also available)Provides substantive background, terms and descriptions, and embedded exercises to allow users to get through simple exploratory analyses of political behavior. Builds crosstabular exercises based on various questions about the 2008 Presidential elections. www.icpsr.umich.edu/SETUPS2008
While most of our current archive ‘collections’ are full-service (onsite staff process and disseminate data onsite using our full infrastructure), and increasing number of projects are using ‘pieces’ of our services.
Explore live.Note that recording of DMP webinar is on this page.
22 pages of guidelines and references even including a sample plan (boilerplate!) available for download.
Ingest refers to improvements in our internal (staff) computing systems – ICPSR has implemented secure data environment ensuring data (and research subjects) are protective at the moment the data arrives to our system.Application (contracting) and monitoring of the progress of the research and status of the data – the restricted contracting system assists research teams in submitting contracts and updating as team members change over the course of several years as the research continues. No more lost documents, including IRB approvals, as all are housed online in our secure cloud.Computing in the cloud – our external (data user) computing systems for distribution of data – our virtual data enclaves ensure the sponsor of the research that research subjects are protected while easing the data protection plan requirements for data analysts.
We are in the development phase of technology for disseminating video research data!