As one of the world's oldest and largest social science data archives, ICPSR is a go-to source for data for analysis, resources for teaching and learning, and support for collecting and sharing one's own data. This webinar will provide a brief overview of the 19,000+ data collections in the ICPSR catalog and instruction on how to search and evaluate the data held therein. One way to approach the catalog is through a set of "thematic data collections" or topical archives -- we will show where to find those and highlight collections related to policy and arts management. Participants will also be introduced to the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods and ICPSR resources related to collecting and sharing primary data.  

Presenter: Lynette Hoelter, Archivist and Director, Instructional Resources and Social Sciences Data Archive, ICPSR

Lynette Hoelter is an archivist at ICPSR and a research affiliate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. At ICPSR, she is involved in projects related to quantitative reasoning and statistical literacy, especially within the undergraduate social science curriculum. Lynette also leads or co-leads projects relating to social science research infrastructure, including ResearchDataGov.org, a platform to find and apply to access restricted data from the federal statistical system. Trained as a sociologist, her research interests include the study of family and relationship processes and best practices for teaching and learning quantitative skills. She has also taught for the departments of sociology and urban and regional planning, the survey methodology program, and ICPSR at the University of Michigan.