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The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) is the largest academic social research and survey organization in the world, established in 1949. [1] ISR includes more than 300 scientists from a variety of academic disciplines – including political science, psychology, sociology, economics, demography, history, anthropology, and statistics.
A unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, ICPSR is a membership-based organization, with over 760 member colleges and universities and other research institutions around the world. A Governing Council of leading scholars and data professionals guides and oversees the activities of ICPSR.
The Center made a major institutional move in July 1998, from the College of Literature, Science, and Arts into the Institute for Social Research (ISR). The merger into ISR facilitates close integration between the PSC's demographic research and the long tradition in survey methodology and major data collection projects at ISR.
[3] [4] He earned his PhD at the University of Michigan and was one of the founding members of the Institute for Social Research. [5] He taught at the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1976, and directed the "Survey Research Center". [5] In 1963 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [6] He was president of the ...
From 1858 to 1930, the University of Michigan had no organized entity for its scholarly publications, which were generally conference proceedings or department-specific research. [8] The University Press was established in 1930 under the university's Graduate School, and in 1935, Frank E. Robbins, assistant to university president Alexander G ...
The Population Dynamics Branch (PDB) of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) funds DSDR. DSDR is located within the ICPSR, the world's largest social science data archive, and is part of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. DSDR provides a platform through which ...
Jeffrey David Morenoff (born March 27, 1966) is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at the University of Michigan.. He is also a professor of public policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, a research professor at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, and the director of the Population Studies Center at the ...
Pamela Jane Smock (born September 29, 1961) is an American sociologist and demographer. She is a research professor in the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center, [1] of which she was the director from 2010 to 2013.