Research Data Centers: Kentucky Research Data Center

ES-1562503James P Ziliak Christopher R BollingerGlen MaysEugenia F TomaDerek Young肯塔基州大学该项目在肯塔基州列克星敦建立肯塔基州研究数据中心(KRDC)。作为人口普查局和肯塔基大学之间的合作伙伴关系，并将加入全国现有的由20多个这样的区域数据中心组成的网络。除了肯塔基大学的教职员工和学生，成立财团的合作伙伴还有印第安纳大学、俄亥俄州立大学、辛辛那提大学和路易斯维尔大学。KRDC的建立将对中东部联合体地区的学者和学生可用的基础设施产生广泛影响，他们的翻译研究将影响区域和国家的经济、社会和卫生政策。此外，由于KRDC联盟学校的许多研究人员目前与全国各地大学的同事通过RDC进行合作，KRDC的建立将极大地简化这些合作，提高研究生产率，推进已发布数据产品的传播，并培育新的研究网络。在这个财政紧缩、经济和人口结构变化的时代，为循证政策提供信息的研究变得更加必要。为了保护受访者的机密性，许多主要的社会、健康和商业调查从公开发布的数据中隐藏了身份信息，如居住的州或县。这抑制了某些形式的研究，包括跟踪各州和一段时间内个人的健康和经济状况，使用住宅区和非住宅单位的地址级单位状况记录来表征城市的兴衰，以及对公共政策有效性的更正式的统计评估。然而，受限访问的研究数据中心(RDC)允许在确保受访者机密性的安全环境中研究具有科学和社会意义的问题。隶属于KRDC的调查人员反映了联盟学校的跨学科专业知识，代表了经济学、社会学、公共卫生、公共政策、统计学、营养、教育、社会工作和医学等领域。他们将就收入不平等、贫困衡量和反贫困政策、教育、不同地理区域的健康差距、种族和性别、家庭暴力和药物使用、粮食不安全、移民、企业动态和政府采购程序等主题进行研究。在安全的数据环境中，这些项目将利用近20个不同的联邦统计数据集，这些数据集由人口普查局、国家卫生统计中心、医疗保健研究和质量局以及其他向RDC网络提供数据的联邦机构支持，如司法统计局、住房和城市发展局、劳工统计局和农业部。

SES - 1562503James P ZiliakChristopher R BollingerGlen MaysEugenia F TomaDerek YoungUniversity of KentuckyThis project establishes the Kentucky Research Data Center (KRDC) in Lexington, Ky. as a partnership between the Bureau of the Census and the University of Kentucky, and will join an existing network of over two dozen such RDCs throughout the nation. In addition to faculty and students at the University of Kentucky, inaugural consortium partners are Indiana University, The Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Louisville. The establishment of KRDC will have a broad impact on the infrastructure available to scholars and students in the East-Central consortium region, whose translational research will impact economic, social, and health policy both regionally and nationally. Moreover, because many researchers at KRDC's consortium schools currently collaborate with colleagues at universities across the country with an RDC, the establishment of KRDC will significantly ease those collaborations, improve research productivity, advance the dissemination of published data products, and foster new research networks. Research that informs evidence-based policy is in heightened need in this era of fiscal austerity and economic and demographic change. For purposes of preserving respondent confidentiality, many major social, health, and business surveys suppress identifying information such as state or county of residence from publicly released data. This inhibits certain forms of research, including tracking the health and economic status of individuals across states and over time, characterizing urban growth and decline using address-level unit status records of living quarters and nonresidential units, and the more formal statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of public policies. However, restricted-access research data centers (RDCs) permit the study of issues having scientific and social import within a secure environment that ensures respondent confidentiality. The investigators affiliated with KRDC reflect the cross-disciplinary expertise of the consortium schools with the areas of economics, sociology, public health, public policy, statistics, nutrition, education, social work, and medicine represented. They will conduct research on topics spanning income inequality, poverty measurement and anti-poverty policies, education, health disparities across geographic regions, race and gender, domestic violence and substance use, food insecurity, immigration, and firm dynamics and government procurement processes. In the secure data environment, the projects will utilize nearly twenty different Federal statistical datasets supported by the Bureau of the Census, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and other federal agencies that contribute data to the RDC network such as the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Housing and Urban Development, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Department of Agriculture.