Presenters: Rita Bantom, Derek Moss and John Garcia

MONDAY OCTOBER 22ND 2012. ROOM: PARK TOWER SUITE 8212

10:30AM TO 11:45 AM

ICPSR and ISR: A Focus on Enhancing Undergraduates Academic Successes

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

ICPSR

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

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

Notable ISR Research Projects

ISR Structure• Five separate but interdependent centers

each with particular focuses and capabilities

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.)

Supporting a growing number of disciplines

• Anthropology• Criminal Justice• Demography• Economics• Education• Foreign Policy• Gerontology

• Health & Medical Policy

• History• Law/Legal Services• Political Sciences• Psychology• Public Policy• Sociology

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

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Accessing Data and Studies

Multiple ways to search: Keyword, Geographic, Browse by Topic, Investigator

www.icpsr.umich.eduwww.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsr

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!

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

Minority Data

esource enter for R C eally ool

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD/

“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.”

Portal for Social Science Research focusing on Race & Ethnicity

- John Garcia (Director RCMD)

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

• Sample characteristicsThis 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.

Special RCMD Analytic Tools

Training and Teaching Quantitative Skills

• 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

Online Learning Center

Opportunities

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

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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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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

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/

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

Research Opportunities for Students

• Research paper competitions – a research journal

experience & cash prizes!

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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

ICPSR Summer Internship

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

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

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.

Thank you!Derek Moss, ISR Director of Human

Resources - dmosss@umich.edu

Rita Bantom, Human Resource Director- ICPSR

- rbantom@umich.edu

John A. Garcia Director –Resource Center for Minority Data ,

- johngarc@umich.edu

Career Opportunities- Survey Research

Careers- includes health, education, law, politics, business, economics, psychology

Range of skills utilized- analytical applications to issues; quantitative techniques; problem solving- identifying problems, assessment, interpreting research results, etc., and research reporting and dissemination.

Job prospects-- in government (i.e. analyst, legislative researcher, Census Bureau); Research /Education (research scientist, interviewer, faculty); Business/Industry ( pollster, forecaster, consultant), and Health ( policy analyst, lobbyist, hospital risk management)

Training/Educational Opportunities – SRC Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques & ICSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods

Questions?

Welcome to ICPSR !

Researcher Interviews

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

Online Modules:EDRL

www.icpsr.umich.edu/EDRL/

ICSC

www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICSC/

SETUPS

www.icpsr.umich.edu/SETUPS/

• 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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