2020 Data Resource Page: Coronavirus, Activism, Policing, Census, Elections, and More

2020 Data Resources to Use and Share!

Updated November 2020

The year 2020 is turning out to be a year unlike any many of us have experienced in our lives. Keenly aware of major world events (both planned and unexpected) that will have our data users looking for resources, ICPSR staff have put together this 2020 Resources list that we will update throughout the year. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please let us know at icpsr-help@umich.edu or fill out our submission form to suggest resources to add to the list.

 

COVID-19 pandemic

• ICPSR launches new repository for COVID-19 data
• A letter to the ICPSR Community from Director Margaret Levenstein
• ICPSR Restricted-use Data Access: Important instructions and resources
• ICPSR Working Paper 2: Best Practices for Measuring the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of Epidemics
• Working/studying from home? If there's a chance your campus or institution will go remote, please sign in to your ICPSR MyData account before leaving. This will automatically validate your account for use off-campus for the next six months. If you have already left campus, you can request access to ICPSR data and resources by contacting icpsr-help@umich.edu. If you have questions about accessing data and resoureces remotely, please review our Instructions for Remote Data Access. You might also be interested in Important Instructions and Resources regarding your ICPSR Restricted-use Data Access.
• Looking for data on health care in the United States? The mission of Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) is to increase the understanding of and improve health and health care in the United States through secondary analysis of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported data collections. HMCA distributes data collections free of charge to the research community and provides technical support to the users of the data. 
• Looking for data on children and families? Answer questions like, "Do the emergency childcare needs of healthcare workers impact their likelihood to work during a pandemic?" and more through data available from the Child Care and Early Education Research Connections archive.
• Teaching/taking courses online? Here are resources to help you:
  • Data-Driven Learning Guides: Plug-and-play lesson plans with learning outcomes, homework questions and all the stats word done for you
  • Take a look at ICPSR's YouTube for pre-recorded presentations on topics including data privacy, handling human subjects data, civic engagement data and more
  • Resources for students are available on-demand including how to read a journal article, a guide to SPSS outputs and more 
  • ICPSR Representatives from your own institutions may have more resources! Take a look at tips for moving classes online from ICPSR Representative Nathaniel Porter at Virginia Tech, and also from ICPSR Representative Dr. Bill Harder at American University
  • Webinar Recording (originally presented 3/20 at 2pm EDT): Harnessing the Geospatial Components in Social Science Research Data
  • Webinar Recording (originally presented 3/31 at 1pm EDT): Maximizing Research Impact with NAHDAP: It Starts with Sharing Your Data!
• Data visualizations: ICPSR staffers spotted some noteworthy external-to-ICPSR data visualizations:
  • Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (hCoV-19)
  • Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University
• Learn more about the COVID 19 Data Archive in this Data Fair presentation: ICPSR's COVID 19 Data Archive, presented by Dr. Amy Pienta and Dr. Chelsea Goforth

Civic Activism / Policing

• Data on civic activism / policing:
  • 22 studies related to police use of force from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
  • Los Angeles County Social Survey, 1992 (LACSS) (ICPSR 36599) - a study conducted in LA at the time of the 1992 civil uprising
  • Study of Sworn Nonfederal Law Enforcement Officers Arrested in the United States, 2005-2011 (ICPSR 35648)
  • Role of Police Psychology in Controlling Excessive Force in 50 Large Cities in the United States, 1992 (ICPSR 6402)
  • Police Use of Force [United States]: Official Reports, Citizen Complaints, and Legal Consequences, 1991-1992 (ICPSR 6274)
  • National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2015: Extract Files (ICPSR 36851) and National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2014: Extract Files (ICPSR 36421) which include Ferguson Police Department data from the period associated with the protests. Additional police department data associated with protest periods may be found in the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Series. A resource guide is available for use with this data: NIBRS Resource Guide.
  • Detroit Longitudinal Study, 1967 (ICPSR 7312)
  • Justifying Violence: Attitudes of American Men, 1969 (ICPSR 3504)
  • Racialized Cues and Support for Justice Reinvestment: A Mixed-Method Study of Public Opinion, Boston, 2016 (ICPSR 36778)
  • Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics Body-Worn Camera Supplement (LEMAS-BWCS), 2016 (ICPSR 37302)
  • The Benefits of Body-Worn Cameras: New Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Nevada, 2014-2015 (ICPSR 37048)
  • Developing a Common Metric for Evaluating Police Performance in Deadly Force Situations in the United States, 2009-2011 (ICPSR 33141)
  • Multi-Method Study of Police Special Weapons and Tactics Teams in the United States, 1986-1998 (ICPSR 20351)
  • Police Use of Deadly Force, 1970-1979 (ICPSR 9018) 
  • The Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS) data collection is a supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) that provides detailed information on the characteristics of persons who had some type of contact with police during the year, including those who contacted the police to report a crime or were pulled over in a traffic stop.
  • Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) Series: Conducted periodically since 1987, LEMAS collects data from over 3,000 general purpose state and local law enforcement agencies, including all those that employ 100 or more sworn officers and a nationally representative sample of smaller agencies. Data obtained include agency responsibilities, operating expenditures, job functions of sworn and civilian employees, officer salaries and special pay, demographic characteristics of officers, weapons and armor policies, education and training requirements, computers and information systems, use of video technology, vehicles, special units, and community policing activities.
• Data on social media activism:
  • 120 variables relating to Twitter
• Several 2020 Data Fair, "Data In Real Life" conference presentations addressed this topic, please visit the ICPSR 2020 Data Fair Playlist on our YouTube channel.

Census

• 2020 Census: Citizenship, Science, Politics, and Privacy: This half-day symposium was co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and the Ford School of Public Policy. Scholars, public officials, private sector representatives, and other census stakeholders addressed preparations for the 2020 Census and the conversations, controversy, and lawsuits over the possible addition of a citizenship question, all to answer the question: What is at stake for the 2020 Census? One of the presenters was ICPSR’s own Director Margaret Levenstein.
  • Playlist of the event: http://bit.ly/2Qh2Pz5
  • Live Stream of the event: http://bit.ly/2SdYWYU
• Data in the News: Covering the 2020 Census: This is a recording of a webinar led by Dr. Mark Hansen, Director of the Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School and ICPSR Council Member, during 2020 Love Data Week at ICPSR. Hansen set up a Slack channel called NewsCounts (newscounts.slack.com) to connect journalists and academics wanting to collaborate on Census coverage.

• Telling Generational Stories From the U.S. Census: This is a session recording from the 2019 Biennial ICPSR Meeting. Presenters: Trent Alexander, ICPSR, and Katie Genadek, U.S. Census Bureau

• Metadata to Interpret our Stats into the Future (Intro to Census Data Repository): Presented by Jared Lyle, Director of Metadata and Preservation at ICPSR and Director of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Alliance, on October 2, 2018, as part of the ICPSR Data Fair.

• The United States Census Bureau Data Repository preserves and disseminates survey instruments, specifications, data dictionaries, codebooks, and other materials provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. ICPSR, the host of this data repository, has also listed additional Census-related data collections from its larger holdings.

Earth Day at 50

• University of Michigan’s “Earth Day at 50: Rise up for the Environment” is a commemorative week of action, March 9-14, 2020. Fifty years ago, in March 1970, U-M held the nation’s first "Environmental Teach-In." The five-day event served as a model for the first Earth Day celebrations held nationwide. On March 9–14, U-M’s Earth Day at 50, a yearlong commemoration of that event, comes to a crescendo with speakers, teach-ins and activities across campus and various Ann Arbor venues.
• Looking for classroom activities? Have your students work through, "Attitudes about Global Warming in the United States: A Data-Driven Learning Guide"

Olympics

• There are at least 278 Studies, 291 Variables, 39 Series, and 1 Data-related Publication tied to the ICPSR website search term “olympics.” See answers to CBS News/New York Times poll questions like “If the Soviet Union does not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, do you think the United States should or should not take part in the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow?" and more.

Elections

• United States Historical Election Returns Series: The United States Historical Election Returns series was developed by ICPSR and was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. ICPSR's holdings of historical election data cover the years 1788-1990 and consist of several discrete datasets that contain county- and state-level returns for all elections to the offices of president, governor, United States senator, and United States representative.

• Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science (SETUPS) Series SETUPS are computer-related modules designed for use in teaching introductory courses in American government and politics. The modules are intended to demonstrate the process of examining evidence and reaching conclusions in a way that stimulates students to think independently and critically, with a deeper understanding of substantive content. They enable students with no previous training to make use of the computer to analyze data on political behavior. Included in this series is SETUPS: Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election (ICPSR 36853)

• American National Election Study (ANES) Series: The American National Election Study (ANES), begun in 1948, is the oldest continuous series of survey data investigating electoral behavior and attitudes in the United States. The focus of the survey includes voter perceptions of the major political parties, the candidates, national and international issues, and the importance of the election. Also explored are voter expectations about the outcome of the election, degree of voter interest in politics, political affiliation and voting history, as well as participation in the electoral process. ANES interviews are conducted before and after presidential elections and after national congressional elections. Post-election interviews include questions on actual voting behavior and voter reflections about the election outcome.

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Jun 5, 2020

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