ICPSR Annual Report: FY22 in Review

The Consortium had a very impactful fiscal year, which included a new partnership with the National Science Foundation to build a new Research Data Ecosystem to help researchers across the gamut of scientific disciplines access, collect, store, and secure vital information. The ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research offered courses in a hybrid format (in-person and online).

Membership

783 total member institutions around the world at the end of the fiscal year.

Data

690 new or updated ICPSR studies in Fiscal Year 2022

Top Downloads

ICPSR's Holdings as of June 30, 2022

On-demand Holdings

Restricted Holdings

Web Presence

Visitors to the ICPSR website

Webinars

ICPSR broadcasted over 65 webinars in FY22. Webinar videos and slides are available on the ICPSR YouTube channel.

Check out our YouTube playlist for recordings from the event.

Social Media

Financial Report

ICPSR closed fiscal year 2022 with revenues totaling $20.5 million, representing a 71-percent increase from fiscal year 2021's total. Membership dues income increased 4.4 percent to $4.54 million and contributed 22 percent of the organization's total revenue. Sponsored project awards contributed $12.2 million and accounted for 60 percent of ICPSR's revenue. Summer Program revenue was $1.9 million for fiscal year 2022. ICPSR's overall expenses were $22.3 million, a 26 percent increase from fiscal year 2021. The organization closed fiscal year 2022 with an operating deficit of $1,873,862.  As of June 30, 2022, ICPSR maintained a total fund balance of $9,974,739.

Conferences

With conferences gradually returning to in-person due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICPSR was able to attend 7 conferences in FY22, which included:

• Population Association of America (PAA)
• Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Society for Prevention Research (SPR)

Notable headlines

• ICPSR Summer Program Welcomes New Director Robert (Rob) J. Franzese Jr.
• Four ICPSR Council Members Begin New Terms
• ICPSR's Miller, Flanigan, and Innovation Award Winners Honored at 2021 ICPSR Biennial Meeting
• ICPSR Mourns the Passing of Former Director Jerome Clubb
• ICPSR Council Members Cook, Jefferson nominated to serve on Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
• Remembering ICPSR Data Champion Piper Simmons
• In Memoriam: Judith S. Rowe

New Initiatives

• ISR Partners with NSF to Build a Research Data Ecosystem
• ICPSR & Millennium Challenge Corporation Launch Interactive Platform Offering Access to MCC Data
• Democratizing Social Media Data for Research Impact
• ICPSR Leads Project Promoting Communication and Collaboration on the Social Effects of COVID-19 
• Western Economic Association International launches new self-publishing repository
• ICPSR Partners with Michigan Medicine to Continue Supporting and Improving the U.S. Chronic Kidney Disease Surveillance System
• ICPSR to Collaborate with Census Bureau to Improve Record Linkage

Educational Activities

Summer Program

Research Paper Competition

The ICPSR Research Paper Competition recognizes graduates and undergraduates for standout work on papers on any topic using data from the ICPSR General Archive or Thematic Collections. There were two winners in 2022.