1. ICPSR and ISR:
A Focus on Enhancing Undergraduates
Academic Successes
Presenters:
Rita Bantom, Derek Moss and John Garcia
MONDAY OCTOBER 22ND 2012.
ROOM: PARK TOWER SUITE 8212
10:30AM TO 11:45 AM

2. Agenda
• What is ISR and ICPSR?
• Introducing ICPSR Data/Research Resources
• Introducing Resource Center for Minority Data
– RCMD goals and objectives
– RCMD Research Tools
• Summer Program in Quantitative Methods
• Data -Driven Learning Guides- Instruction
• Career Opportunities
– Undergraduate=Summer Internship
– Full Time / Part time
• Scholarships and Paper Competitions
• Questions, Answers and Contacts

3. ICPSR

4. ISR Mission
• Plan and conduct of high quality social science
research
• Develop new social science methods
• Dissemination of findings from research
• Educate the next generation of social
scientists
• New international ventures and new collaborations
with federal agencies, foundations, corporations, and
private individuals

5. ISR Fact Sheet
• Founded in 1949
• Largest academic social science survey and
research organization in the world
• Annual budget in excess of $80 million for
each of the last four fiscal years
• More than 250 Ph.D. Research Scientists
from 20 disciplines

6. Notable ISR Research Projects

7. ISR Structure
• Five separate but interdependent centers
each with particular focuses and capabilities

8. Survey Research Center
• Founded in 1946 by the “Super
Founders”
• Focus: Interdisciplinary social science
research involving collection and
analysis of date, especially using the
survey
• Principal disciplines: Economics, Sociology, Statistics, Survey
Methodology, Psychology, Public Health
• Survey Research Operations
• Program in Survey Methodology

9. Center for Political Studies
• Evolved from SRC because of success
of the National Election Study.
• Founded by Warren Miller. Separate
center in the 1970s
• Focus: Interaction among
institutions, political processes and
individuals with a concern for
democratic politics
• Principal discipline: Political
Science

10. Research Center for Group Dynamics
• Brought to Michigan from MIT in 1948 by Dorwin
“Doc” Cartwright
• Intellectual focus: Understanding human behavior is
social contexts
• Principal Discipline: Psychologists and social
psychologists

11. Population Studies Center
• Founded by Ron Freedman in
1961
• Merged with ISR in 1998 and
moved into the building in 2003
• Focus: Family formation, human capital, health and
mortality, population dynamics, aging
• Disciplines: Sociology and Economics, but involves a
dozen disciplines

12. Inter-university for Political and
Social Research, (ICPSR)
Founded by Warren Miller in 1962 as a consortium
and now there is over 715 members
Focus is to process, preserve, and disseminate
social science data and supporting documents.
Leader in providing education, training, and
instructional resources to help users understand
and analyze research data.

13. ICPSR Benefits
• Support students, faculty, researchers, and policymakers
who seek to:
– Write articles, papers, or theses to fulfill
undergraduate or graduate requirements
– Conduct secondary research to:
• Better understand results of a study or generate
new findings
• Support findings of primary research
– Study or teach statistical methods

14. Why is this important to me?
• Research data available for secondary analysis in many
content areas
• Available in multiple statistical packages (STATA, SAS,
SPSS, R)
• Quantitative literacy important resource for self and
resource for teaching students
• Opportunity to share your research with a domestic and
international audience and meet funder requirements for
public access
• A number of opportunities to enhance research experiences
via internships, paper competitions and more

15. About the Data Collection
• ICPSR archives both U.S. and international data
• Data Sources:
• Government (census, government organizations)
• Large data collection efforts (National Longitudinal Study of
Adolescent Health, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, NCAA)
• Polls (ABC and CBS news polls, voter polls)
• Principle Investigators (Latino National Survey, Survey of Black
Americans)
• Data repurposed (Integrated Fertility Survey Series, Project on
Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods)
• Topical Archives (i.e. Substance Abuse, Aging, Education, Criminal
Justice etc.)

16. Supporting a growing number of
disciplines
• Anthropology • Health & Medical Policy
• Criminal Justice • History
• Demography • Law/Legal Services
• Economics • Political Sciences
• Education • Psychology
• Foreign Policy • Public Policy
• Gerontology • Sociology

17. Sample of Popular Studies
• General Social Surveys
• National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2009
• American National Election Study, 2008: Pre- and Post-
Election Survey
• Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), 1991-2006
• National Health Interview Survey, 2009
• National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2008
• National Neighborhood Crime Study (NNCS), 2000
• Latino National Survey (LNS), 2006
• Gender, Mental Illness, and Crime in the United States, 2004
• NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate, 2009

18. Accessing Data and Studies
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19. Multiple ways to search:
Keyword, Geographic, Browse by Topic, Investigator
www.icpsr.umich.edu
www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsr

20. ICPSR’s Bibliography of
Data-Related Literature
• Publications based on data held at ICPSR
– Find an article in our bibliography and we display
the related dataset(s)
• Ability to see the article citation and click
through for full-text
• Many use the Data Bibliography as a search
tool!

21. Specialty Archives/Thematic
Collections
These archives (thematic collections), focus on
specific subject areas:
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
(SAMHDA)*
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)*
• National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)*
• Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR)*
• National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program
• Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
• International Data Resource Center (IDRC)
• Member Archive (ICPSR collection)
*These archives are federally funded

22. Resource Center for Minority Data
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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD/

23. Portal for Social Science Research
focusing on Race & Ethnicity
“RCMD aims to be part of an interactive
community of persons interested and be
involved in minority related
issues/investigations in order to make possible
the broadest scope of research endeavors and
examinations.”
- John Garcia (Director RCMD)

24. Online Analysis Software
• Survey Documentation & Analysis (SDA)
• Web-based, requires no additional software or licensing
• Over 580 datasets available for use with SDA
• Easy for students but sophisticated analyses available for
researchers
• Good for preliminary analyses to determine whether data
will work for a particular research question (e.g., RCMD
subsetting tools)
• Find studies with SDA

25. Special RCMD Analytic Tools
• Sample characteristics
This tool is designed to help analysts decide if the sample is adequate or
appropriate for the analysis at hand. This is of particular interest for
comparative analysis.
• Syntax generation
This tool is largely instructional. It allows for menu driven recoding
that generates “syntax” instructions for the demographic variables in
the study. This will help students learn how to conduct their own
analyses without the aid of SDA.
• Subsetting
This tool allows analysts to interactively pull a demographic extract of
the entire study. This is particularly useful for those conducting
subpopulation analyses.

26. Training and Teaching
Quantitative Skills

27. Online Learning Center
• Tool to help develop classroom lectures and exercises that
integrate data early into the learning process.
• Intended for use in introductory-level substantive classes.
• Addresses key concerns raised by teaching faculty in focus
groups and in-depth interviews.
• Data Driven Learning Guides as modules for teaching core
concepts in the social sciences.
• Let’s take a quick look; Online Learning Center
• http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/instructors/index.jsp
Also, a webinar is available for using the OLC in the classroom
1. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cgi-bin/bob-
ia/olcsda?resc_id=13513&ddlg=identitypol

28. Opportunities

29. Educating the Next Generation
• U-M Program in Survey Methodology
• Theoretical grounding in all aspects of survey methodology
• Approximately 30 Ph.D. and M.S. students each year
• Summer Educational Opportunities
• Summer Institute for Survey Research Techniques; about 200 students each year
• Summer Program in Quantitative Methods; more than 800 students each year and
increasing
• Demography and Population Studies Training
• Large training program for both predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars and includes an
international training program
• Approximately 75 trainees each year

31. Master of science
• Survey methodologists
– Sound survey technical skills through
practice
– Intellectual capabilities
• Critical examination of methodology
• Research design & implementation
• Implementation of innovation
• Two year 47 credit hour program of study
– Internship during intervening summer
• Academic & practical preparation
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32. Doctoral program
• Develops research professionals
– Sound technical skills
– Intellectual capabilities
– Research capabilities
• Four to five year course of study
– Year 1: preparation for qualifying exam
– Year 2: preparation for comprehensive exam
– Years 3-5: candidacy & research
– Culmination: dissertation presentation & defense
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33. 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
www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/

34. Sample Courses
INTRODUCTORY LEVEL
– Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis I and II
– Mathematics for Social Scientist I and II
– Introduction to Computing
– Regression Analysis I: Introduction
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
– Regression Analysis II: Linear Models
– Categorical Data Analysis
– Maximum Likelihood for General Linear Models
– Introduction to R Statistical Computing

35. Research Opportunities for Students
• Research paper
competitions
– a research journal
experience & cash
prizes!
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36. SRC Summer Internship Program
– Graduate and Undergraduate
– Combine social science and statistical theory with the
practical challenges of day-to-day project
implementation.
– Learn the principles of survey research from some of the
most dedicated practitioners in the field.
http://www.isr.umich.edu/sip

37. ICPSR Summer Internship

38. Internship Goals
• Introduce undergraduates to all parts of the
research process
• Provide advanced training in methods/statistics
• Provide experiences in professional socialization
• Long Term Goal:
– ICPSR Faculty, Staff, Researcher or Board member
– An advocate for social science research and public
access data

39. Internship Components
• 10 week summer experience
• Mentor based supervision
• Three main areas of focus:
– Data Processing Assignments “Real Work”
– Graduate level courses in statistics
– Research Projects

40. Award Winning Program!!!
ICPSR is the Employer of the Year 2009 award recipient from Michigan Council for Internships &
Cooperative Education (MC-ICE) for outstanding contributions for its efforts in promoting and
sustaining quality internships education programs in the State of Michigan.

41. Career Opportunities- Survey Research
Thank you!
 Careers- includes health, education, law, politics, business,
Derek Moss,psychology
economics, ISR Director of Human Resources
- dmosss@umich.edu
 Range of skills utilized- analytical applications to issues; quantitative
Rita Bantom, Human Resource Director- ICPSR
techniques; problem solving- identifying problems, assessment, interpreting
research results, etc., and research reporting and dissemination.
- rbantom@umich.edu
John A. Garcia Director –Resource Center for
Job prospects-- in government (i.e. analyst, legislative researcher,
Census Bureau); Research /Education (research scientist, interviewer,
Minority Data ,
faculty); Business/Industry ( pollster, forecaster, consultant), and Health (
policy analyst, lobbyist, hospital risk management)
- johngarc@umich.edu
 Training/Educational Opportunities – SRC Summer Institute in Survey
Research Techniques & ICSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods

42. Questions?

43. Welcome to ICPSR !

44. Researcher Interviews

45. Sample Courses (Cont.)
• ADVANCED LEVEL
– Advanced Maximum Likelihood
– Causal Inference for the Social Sciences
– Regression III: Advanced Methods
– Multilevel Models
– Time Series Analysis
– Advanced Bayesian Models

46. Online Modules:
EDRL
ICSC
SETUPS
www.icpsr.umich.edu/EDRL/
www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICSC/
www.icpsr.umich.edu/SETUPS/

47. Additional Workshops
• 19 other short workshops
• From “Spatial Regression” to “Panel Data
Analysis”
• From “Combining Qualitative & Quantitative
Research Approaches” to
“Designing, Conducting, and Analyzing Field
Experiments”
• Lots of real neat stats classes!
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