Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Formation1962 (1962)
Location
Director
Margaret Levenstein
Parent organization
University of Michigan
Websitewww.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an American political science and social science research consortium, based at the University of Michigan. It was founded in 1962. An integral part of the infrastructure of social science research, ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction (over 16,000 discrete studies/surveys with more than 70,000 datasets).