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Need to expand your skills in statistical methods and quantitative analysis? Attend the ICPSR Summer Program! Each year, ICPSR provides a comprehensive, integrated program of studies in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social science methodology. Registration is now open for the 2013 session.

For a listing of course offerings and application information, see the ICPSR Summer Program web site.  New and ongoing courses this year include:

• Assessing and Mitigating Disclosure Risk for Confidential Data
• Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods
• Network Analysis: An Introduction

Note that while most courses are held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the following three will be held nearby, in Amherst, MA or New York, NY:

• Analyzing Developmental Trajectories
• Designing, Conducting, and Analyzing Field Experiments
• Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction
• The Workflow of Data Analysis using Stata

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And don’t forget ICPSR as a source of quantitative data on a range of topics: from consumer behavior, election statistics, health, international relations, social attitudes and behavior, and more!  Recently added datasets include:

• Congressional Record for 104th-109th Congresses: Text and Phrase Counts
• Eurobarometer 73.1: The European Parliament, Biotechnology, and Science and Technology, January-February 2010
• Mathematics Teaching in the 21st Century
• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1994-2008
• State Vaccination Requirements and Exemption Law Database, 2011

In other news, ICPSR now is releasing all of its new data files in R software format.

For further information, contact Katherine McNeill, Social Science Data Services Librarian, at mcneillh@mit.edu.