Minnesota Research Data Center

SES-0851417凯瑟琳·菲奇·林恩·布莱维特迈克尔·达文·托马斯·霍姆斯史蒂文·罗格斯该奖项是根据《2009年美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助的。这笔赠款在明尼苏达大学建立了人口普查局研究数据中心(RDC)。明尼苏达州民主联盟的目标是双重的。首先，RDC将帮助明尼苏达州的研究人员与人口普查局和国家卫生统计中心合作，支持和改善经济、人口和卫生研究的基础数据基础设施。其次，RDC将刺激新的学术研究，利用强大的受限访问数据集来促进对美国社会变化的根源和后果的理解。明尼苏达州RDC将设在明尼苏达州人口中心(MPC)，这是一个与人口普查局就改善和传播人口普查数据产品的项目进行合作的传统组织。明尼苏达州研究发展中心将为来自广泛学术学科的研究人员提供服务，但在人口学和公共卫生方面将具有特别的优势。明尼苏达州有来自社会科学和政策部门的杰出研究人员，他们将利用新获得的人口统计数据来研究婚姻、移民和家庭变化等主题。该大学排名第一的公共卫生学院在大规模数据分析和改进方面拥有不同寻常的优势，附近的梅奥诊所正在开发专注于健康数据的新项目。因此，一大批国家认可的调查人员将利用人口普查局与NCHS和医疗保健研究与质量机构(AHRQ)最近达成的协议。RDC还将为传统的RDC研究人员提供服务；来自经济学、应用经济学和劳资关系等杰出部门以及明尼阿波利斯联邦储备银行的经济学家将专注于经济微观数据的分析。明尼苏达大学RDC的出现将刺激社会学、经济学、公共事务和流行病学等一系列学术领域的原创性和创造性研究。有限的十年一次和经济普查数据为研究美国人口和经济的长期结构调整提供了强大的资源。明尼苏达大学的社会科学家将能够同时研究广泛的时间范围和空间组织的细节。访问NCHS和AHRQ的内部数据将导致大量新的科学和政策相关研究，涉及健康行为和差异、获得和使用医疗保健、人口老龄化、实现公共卫生目标的进展，以及许多其他主题。更广泛的影响：由于MPC与人口普查局和NCHS在大型数据基础设施项目上的合作历史，明尼苏达州RDC将处于独特的地位，使整个RDC计划受益，并协助统计机构实施数据改进项目。明尼苏达州RDC将帮助整个RDC网络的用户有效地使用受限的人口和健康数据文件，其中一些文件是明尼苏达州调查人员帮助创建的。MPC研究人员将继续与人口普查局和NCHS合作，改进受限和公共使用的数据和文件。所有使用人口普查局受限数据的区域发展中心项目将通过提供改善数据收集、处理和传播所需的知识而使人口普查局受益。在明尼苏达大学设立RDC的一个最重要的原因是让研究生可以使用这一资源。许多学生将在使用RDC的过程中接受培训--通过与教职员工合作，学习如何撰写成功的研究计划，适当地保护私人数据，并有效地分析RDC数据。来自该大学的学生也可以免费进入研究发展中心从事他们自己的研究项目。

SES-0851417Catherine FitchLynn A BlewettMichael DavernThomas HomesSteven RugglesThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This grant establishes a Census Bureau Research Data Center (RDC) at the University of Minnesota. The goals of the Minnesota RDC are twofold. First, the RDC will help Minnesota researchers, working in collaboration with the Census Bureau and the National Center for Health Statistics, to support and improve basic data infrastructure for economic, demographic, and health research. Second, the RDC will stimulate new academic research that capitalizes on powerful restricted-access datasets to advance understanding of the sources and consequences of change in American society. The Minnesota RDC will be housed in the Minnesota Population Center (MPC), an organization with a tradition of collaboration with the Census Bureau on projects to improve and disseminate Census data products. The Minnesota RDC will serve researchers from a broad range of academic disciplines, but will have particular strengths in demography and public health. Minnesota has outstanding researchers from social science and policy departments who will exploit newly-available demographic data to study topics such as marriage, migration, and family change. The University's top-ranked School of Public Health has unusual strength in large-scale data analysis and improvement and the nearby Mayo Clinic is developing new programs focusing on health data. Accordingly, a large pool of nationally-recognized investigators will take advantage of the recent agreement between the Census Bureau and NCHS and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The RDC will also serve traditional RDC researchers; economists from the distinguished departments of Economics, Applied Economics, and Industrial Relations--as well as the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank--will focus on analysis of economic microdata. The availability of an RDC at the University of Minnesota will stimulate original and creative research in an array of academic fields such as sociology, economics, public affairs, and epidemiology. The restricted decennial and economic census data provide powerful resources for studying the long-run restructuring of the American population and economy. Social scientists at the University of Minnesota will be able to address simultaneously the broad sweep of time and the detail of spatial organization. Access to the internal NCHS and AHRQ data will result in a substantial body of new scientific and policy-relevant research into health behavior and disparities, access to and use of medical care, population aging, progress toward public health goals, and many other topics. Broader Impacts: Because of MPC's history of collaboration with the Census Bureau and NCHS on large-scale data infrastructure projects, the Minnesota RDC will be uniquely positioned to benefit the entire RDC program and to assist the statistical agencies with data improvement projects. The Minnesota RDC will help users across the entire RDC network efficiently use restricted population and health data files, some of which Minnesota investigators helped to create. MPC researchers will continue collaborating with the Census Bureau and NCHS on improving restricted and public-use data and documentation. All RDC projects using Census Bureau restricted data will benefit the Census Bureau by contributing knowledge necessary to improve data collection, processing and dissemination. One of the most important reasons for establishing an RDC at the University of Minnesota is to make this resource available to graduate students. Many students will be trained in the process of using the RDC--learning how to write successful research proposals, properly safeguard private data, and efficiently analyze the RDC data--by working with faculty members. Students from the University will also have free access to the RDC to pursue their own research projects.