[2] In an August 1962 letter to Rensis Likert, Miller justified his creation of the institute with four principles: "institutional rather than individual participation", "continuing rather than episodic relationships", "facilitation of advanced training in research analysis", and "participation in research planning as well as analysis".

[2] In 1971, grant funding for the ICPR dropped tremendously, making member fees the largest source of income for the rest of the 1970s.

[4]: 1729 The organization also began to obtain government contracts starting from 1975, which became an increasingly strong revenue source.

[2] Clubb would later dub this in a 2011 email as an "expression of reality", noting that it drew attention to the ICPSR "for disciplines and specializations other than political science".

A Governing Council of leading scholars and data professionals guides and oversees the activities of ICPSR.

[7] The founders of ICPSR believed researchers needed training to use the data the consortium was providing.

[8] The program offered nine courses, with the most popular class, "Proseminar in Behavior Research Methods", attracting 46 participants.

In 2015, the ICPSR Summer Program offered 81 courses addressing quantitative and analytic skills taught by 101 instructors from across North America and Europe.

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), established in 1978, is a topical data archive located within the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a unit of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan.