IRIS is pleased to announce that our fifth data release is now available on the virtual data enclave.
The 2022 dataset includes information on research spending, vendor contracts and employees from more than 80 campuses across the country. It contains data on more than 535,000 sponsored research grants worth more than $137 billion, about $31 billion in payments to more than 970,000 vendors of research-related goods and services, and wages to about 864,000 employees.
The dataset has been used by researchers in higher education, economics, sociology and many other fields.
This year, we’ve added several new features, including:
- Improved quality of imputation on gender, ethnicity, and race variables that provide demographic characteristics of employees who are paid on grants
- Improved quality of occupational classification with a focus on faculty rank and appointment
- Comprehensive collection and processing of award data from external sources, including NIH, NSF, USDA, NASA, DOE, and DOD
- Expanded record linkage product and linked data at both award- and Principal Investigator (PI)-level for these six agencies
- New collection of COVID-19 research grant data from NIH and NSF
- Application of a topic modeling method to text data (award abstract) for extracting and inferring topics associated with federally funded sponsored projects
- Continuous effort towards cleaning and disambiguating funding source names with a particular focus on federal and private funding agencies, as well as nonprofit and corporate foundations
- Increased code availability to researchers in the IRIS Virtual Data Enclave (VDE) for reproducibility
For more on the data release, visit https://iris.isr.umich.edu/research-data/2022datarelease/. And for details on our research data generally, see https://iris.isr.umich.edu/research-data/.
To view a webinar on the data release, visit https://youtu.be/tRalLbXnfQI.