- Access to ICPSR is limited to current students, faculty and staff at The Chicago School. For access to datasets, you will need to create an ICPSR account using your Chicago School email address.
- To create an account you need to go to ICPSR and click the “Log In” button at the top right corner of the page.
- On the page that opens choose the “Sign in with email” option and click the “Set up a new account” link. (If you have previously had an account you may need to migrate it and so select the “Migrate MyData info”).
- Once you have created the account using your email address you will be able to access your account and datasets available from ICPSR.
- To begin a project involving data analysis, you will first need to search for a dataset to answer your research questions. Then you can download the dataset and run a simple statistical procedure(*) on your own computer with your own software, or you can use the online data analysis system for a selection of the ICPSR datasets available on our site.
* You will need basic statistical skills for using the online analysis system and more advanced skills for running your own analysis, although SAS, SPSS, AND Stata setup files are provided with many ICPSR datasets.
