ICPSR Annual Report: FY21 in Review

The Consortium held together through the COVID-19 pandemic and worked to keep data available through tough times. The community stayed connected virtually, using technology for meetings and for dozens of webinars, including those at the biennial ICPSR Data Fair, which focused on “Data in Real Life.”

Membership

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

Data: 499 new or updated ICPSR studies in Fiscal Year 2021

 

ICPSR’s Holdings as of June 30, 2021

On-demand Holdings

Restricted Holdings

Visitors to the ICPSR website

507K

Users

824K

Sessions

499K

New Users

430K

Page Views

109K

Returning Visitors

Webinars

25+ webinars in fiscal year 2020-2021. Webinar videos and slides are available on the ICPSR YouTube channel.

2020 ICPSR Data Fair: “Data in Real Life” (September 21-25, 2020)

  • 28 Presentations
  • 1,000+ Live Attendees
  • 70 Countries Represented
  • 53 Presenters
  • 500+ Institutions Represented

One Data Fair attendee told us, “You assembled an amazing diverse group of topics of high interest and importance and a very impressive lineup of speakers. This was infinitely better than many conferences where one has to pay high fees to register.”!

Experience the awesomeness for yourself: We’ve created a YouTube playlist with recordings of all of the sessions.

Social Media

X (Former Twitter)

  • 7.9K followers
  • 548 posts
  • 4.1K engagements

LinkedIn

  • 897 followers
  • 392 posts
  • 999 engagements

Facebook

  • 4.6K fans
  • 460 posts
  • 3.2K engagements

YouTube

  • 341 subscribers
  • 41.5K views
  • 585K impressions

Instagram

  • 261 followers
  • 377 posts
  • 1.0K engagements

Financial Report

ICPSR closed fiscal year 2021 with revenues totaling $12.0 million, representing a 26-percent decrease from fiscal year 2020’s total.  Membership income increased 4.4 percent from fiscal year 2020 at $4.34 million and contributed 36 percent of the organization’s total revenue.  Sponsored project awards contributed $4.5 million and accounted for 38 percent of ICPSR’s revenue. Summer Program revenue was $2.4 million for fiscal year 2021. ICPSR’s overall expenses were $17.6 million, a 10-percent increase from fiscal year 2020. The organization closed fiscal year 2021 with an operating surplus of $843,913.  As of June 30, 2021, ICPSR maintained a total fund balance of $11,484,723.

Conferences

30 conferences attended by ICPSR staff in FY-2021, many of them virtual, due to the pandemic, including:

  • Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA)/American Economic Association (AEA)
  • Asian Studies Annual Conference
  • Southwestern Social Science Association (SSCA)
  • American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Educational Activities

Summer Program

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research included, at a glance:

1,253

Participants

83

Instructors

58

Teaching Assistants

  • 55 four-week courses online
  • 32 workshops
  • 8 lectures
  • 15 Blalock lectures
  • 41 statistical short workshops
  • 4 ICPSR sponsored short workshops

The program received 604 applications for scholarships, awarding 99 scholarships sponsored by ICPSR and other organizations.

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 four winners in 2021.

ICPSR Undergraduate

ICPSR Masters