Data Sharing for Demographic Research

Wave IV consists of data from the most recent of four in-home interviews which have followed a nationally representative sample of adolescents since they were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-195 school year. The Wave IV interviews were completed in 2008, when the sample was aged 24-32. The study combines longitudinal survey data on respondents' social, economic, psychological, and physical well-being with data on the family, neighborhood, community, school, friendships, peer groups, and romantic relationships.

Add Health has been one of the most downloaded datasets from ICPSR.

The Wave IV public data is available for download under Study #21600.

2011-04-05

ICPSR annual report released

ICPSR's 2009-2010 annual report (pdf) is now available. The report describes a productive year, with increases in membership and revenue, and progress on a wide range of new initiatives.

The report highlights three new projects at ICPSR: the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program, the China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset-Liaoning, and the Restricted-Use Contracting System.

Three ICPSR researchers are also profiled: JoAnne McFarland, director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive; Christopher Ward, project manager at the Integrated Fertility Survey Series; and John Garcia, ICPSR's director of diversity and leader of the Resource Center for Minority Data.

Grant revenue, overall revenue, and our fund balance all increased in the 2009-2010 fiscal year. At the end of the year, ICPSR had nearly 690 members, and more than $19.1 million in revenue.

2010-10-26

ICPSR offers guidelines on data management plans

As one of the leaders in data archiving for nearly 50 years, ICPSR is in a unique position to assist researchers with the data management plans increasingly being required by federal funding agencies such as NIH and NSF. Therefore, we are pleased to offer a new set of guidelines for preparing data management plans. We hope these resources can assist researchers in all disciplines meet these new requirements, and better understand how to preserve and disseminate their research data.

Our guidelines provide a detailed list of the elements of a data management plan, developed through a gap analysis of existing recommendations for such plans. We also list existing examples of data management plans, as well as other resources available on the Web.

Depositing data with ICPSR can be an integral part of a data management plan. In fact, the NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences recently named ICPSR as an archive that would help grant applicants meet its requirement for data storage. Our data management plan guidelines also provide information on how to deposit data with ICPSR.

We plan to update our guidelines regularly, and welcome any suggestions via email at web-support@icpsr.umich.edu.

ICPSR is also hosting a Webinar on data management plans as part of our Social Science Data Fair scheduled for November 8-11. Enrollment is currently open for all sessions.

2010-10-25

CMGPD Web site launched

The Data Sharing for Demographic Research project (DSDR), in collaboration with the China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset (CMGPD) research project, announces the launch of the CMGPD project Web site.

The China Multi Generational Panel Dataset - Liaoning consists of 1.5 million triennial observations of more than 260,000 residents from approximately 700 communities in the Liaoning Province of China collected between 1749 and 1909.

Through record linkage, as many as seven generations of paternal pedigrees can be reconstructed. The dataset is unique among publicly available population databases because of its time span, volume, detail, and completeness of recording.

The research team consists of Cameron Campbell of the University of California, Los Angeles; Shuang Chen of the University of Iowa; James Lee of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ICPSR, and Peking University; and Susan Hautaniemi Leonard of ICPSR.

2010-09-09

New Add Health Restricted Data Available

DSDR has released new Add Health restricted data: Alcohol Density data (Study #28841) and Political Context Files data (Study #28843). To request either the Alcohol Density data or the Political Context Files data, please contact Russ Hathaway (rhataway@umich.edu) for the data request form.

2010-09-02

ICPSR researcher publishes op-ed in Chronicle

ICPSR researcher Felicia LeClere has published an opinion essay in on the Chronicle of Higher Education's Web site on the topic of data sharing.

The piece addresses the emerging paradigm shift toward more sharing of data among funding agencies and scientists. The essay also takes on, point by point, the most common arguments against sharing primary research data.

The movement toward more data sharing is being pushed forward by a new policy at the National Science Foundation requiring grant seekers to provide data-management plans describing how and when data will be shared. The policy is set to be in place around October, according to the NSF.

2010-08-03

China Multi-Generational Panel dataset released

DSDR has released the China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset (CMGPD) base file under ICPSR Study # 27063. The China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset is drawn from the population registers compiled by the Imperial Household Agency (neiwufu) in Shengjing, currently the northeast Chinese province of Liaoning, between 1749 and 1909. It provides 1.5 million triennial observations of more than 260,000 residents of approximately 628 communities.

Possible applications of the dataset include the study of relationships between demographic behavior, family organization, and socioeconomic status across the life course and across generations, the influence of region and community on demographic outcomes, and development and assessment of quantitative methods for the analysis of complex longitudinal datasets.

2010-07-13

Chinese Household Income Project Series updated

DSDR has updated the Chinese Household Income Project, 1988 (Study #9836) and the Chinese Household Income Project, 1995 (Study #3012) to include SPSS, SAS, Stata, flat-ASCII with set-up files (SAS, SPSS, Stata) and tab-delimited ASCII as well as online data analysis (SDA). DSDR has also added online analysis for the 2002 Chinese Household Income Project (Study #21741) data.

2010-07-08