California Census Research Data Center

9812173 Brady这是加州大学伯克利分校和加州大学洛杉矶分校的合作提案，旨在与美国人口普查局合作建立加州人口普查研究数据中心(“CCRDC”或“California CRDC”)。CCRDC由两个安全地点或实验室组成，一个在加州大学洛杉矶分校，另一个在加州大学伯克利分校。西海岸有一大批社会科学家，他们已经或想要制定研究项目，利用人口普查局对商业机构和公司进行的经济调查或对家庭和个人进行的人口统计调查得出的微观数据。通过建立这个研究数据中心(RDC)，西海岸一大批杰出的社会科学研究人员目前面临的区位劣势将会减少。通过降低研究成本，我们预计将在一系列重要的基础研究和与政策相关的问题上刺激大量利用人口普查微观数据的重要和高质量的研究项目。此外，通过与加州CRDC建立伙伴关系，人口普查局将有机会利用加州的面积和多样性，并利用该州现有的努力，从行政记录中开发其他数据源。当这些行政数据与人口普查数据联系在一起时，有可能开辟独特的、开创性的研究路线。这两个实验室，一个在加州大学洛杉矶分校，一个在加州大学伯克利分校，将在一个统一的中心下开发和运营。该中心将有一个共同的治理结构、执行董事和审查委员会，将与人口普查局合作，为西海岸的研究人员提供公平和客观的机会，同时保护基础微数据的机密性。特别是，CCRDC的首席和联合首席调查员、一名执行主任和审查委员会将努力在两个实验室灌输“保密文化”。在最初的三年里，加州大学洛杉矶分校、加州大学伯克利分校和加州大学加州政策研讨会将为CCRDC提供资金。在同样的三年内，国家科学基金会也要求提供资金，以帮助支付该中心的部分费用。这些来源的承诺将使中心能够在每个实验室支持两名学院研究协调员、一名执行主任和一名人口普查局工作人员，并创造一个可靠的计算和安全环境。有了这些工作人员和基础设施，中心应该有可能开发出足够的资助研究项目组合，为实验室支付合理的使用费，在三到五年结束时实现财政自给自足。

9812173 Brady This is a collaborative proposal from UC Berkeley and UCLA to establish the California Census Research Data Center ("CCRDC" or "California CRDC") in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The CCRDC consists of two secure sites or laboratories, one at UCLA and the other at UC Berkeley. There is a substantial community of social scientists located on the West Coast who have either developed or would like to develop research projects that would make use of microdata from the Census Bureau's economic surveys of business establishments and firms or from its demographic surveys of households and individuals. By establishing this Research Data Center (RDC), the locational disadvantage currently confronting a large and distinguished group of social science researchers on the West Coast will be reduced. By reducing the costs of conducting research, we project that a large number of important and high quality research projects utilizing micro-level data from Census surveys will be stimulated on a wide range of important basic research and policy-relevant issues. Moreover, by establishing a partnership with the California CRDC, the Census Bureau will have the opportunity to exploit the size and diversity of California and to capitalize on existing efforts by the state to develop other data sources from administrative records. These administrative data have the potential, when linked with Census data, to open up unique and path-breaking lines of research. The two laboratories, one at UCLA and one at UC Berkeley, will be developed and operated under one unified Center. The Center will have a common governance structure, Executive Director, and Review Board that will work with the Census Bureau to provide fair and objective access to West Coast researchers while at the same time protecting the confidentiality of the underlying microdata. In particular, the principal and co-principal investigators, an Executive Director, and the Review Board for the CCRDC will work to instill the "culture of confidentiality" at both laboratories. Over its first three years, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the University of California's California Policy Seminar will fund the CCRDC. Funding also is requested from the National Science Foundation over this same 3-year period to help defray some of the Center's costs. Commitments from these sources will enable the Center to support two Faculty Research Coordinators, an Executive Director, and a Census Bureau employee at each laboratory and to create a reliable computing and security environment. With this staff and infrastructure, it should be possible for the Center to develop a sufficient portfolio of funded research projects, paying reasonable user fees for the laboratories, to be financially self-sufficient by the end of a three to five year period.