CORE--STATISYICAL DATA ENCLAVE

描述：(改编自应用程序)：许多数据集的价值 对衰老研究的重要性可以通过结合个体来增强 答复者使用来自不同管理来源的数据进行报告。在这些人中 提供这一选项的调查是国家长期护理调查 (NLTCS)，老龄化I和II的纵向调查(LSOA)，健康和 退休研究(HRS)和资产和健康动态研究(AHEAD)。 现在可以通过Medicare Billings文件建立管理联系 (NLTCS、AHEAD和LSOA-II)、医疗补助账单文件(NLTCS)和社会保险 安全管理局的收入和福利文件(HRS及以后)，以及 伤残申领数据(提前)。因为NLTCS、LSOA I和II、HRS以及 前面是所有的小组研究，累积的受访者报告也最终 与从死亡证书中提取的信息合并，通常与 与国家死亡指数(NDI)的联系。这些联系带来的附加值 代价是识别个人身份的风险增加 受访者，可能侵犯他们的隐私和机密性。至 将这些风险降至最低，收集和分发调查的调查人员 数据和维护行政记录的机构强制访问 对用户社区的限制。 这些数据使用政策正在变化。管理访问链接的 社会保障-放置HRS文件，并设置类似的访问限制 预计将提前合并-社保数据也是如此。HCFA程序 管理对合并来自HRS/AHEAD的个人调查数据的文件的访问 医疗保险索赔文件正在审查中。LSOA和NLTCS已经 他们建立了自己的程序，将数据分发给研究 社区。 核心E的总体目标是鼓励和引导丰富的 详细的合并数据集现在可用，同时为PARC提供 适应即将出台或正在变化的访问指南所需的专业知识 新数据文件。这个核心的具体目标是：(1)内部发展 技术专长以满足当前和未来对访问 包含机密信息的数据文件；(2)方便访问 PARC与当前可用的受保护数据文件相关联；(3)培训PARC 关于他们有义务遵守他们的访问条款 协议；(4)监督帕洛阿尔托研究中心联系人遵守 获取各种文件；以及(5)维护和扩展内部系统 专业知识，同时保护多个受限制访问文件 学习。

DESCRIPTION: (adapted from the application): The value of many data sets important to the study of aging can be enhanced by combining individual respondent reports with data from various administrative sources. Among the surveys that provide this option are the National Long-term Care Survey (NLTCS), the Longitundial Surveys of Aging I and II (LSOA), the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and the Asset and Health Dynamics Study (AHEAD). Administrative linkages are now possible with the Medicare Billings File (NLTCS, AHEAD, and LSOA-II), the Medicaid Billing File (NLTCS), and the Social Security Administration's Earnings and Benefits File (HRS and AHEAD), and Disability Claim data (AHEAD). Because the NLTCS, LSOA I and II, HRS, and AHEAD are all panel studies, cumulative respondent reports are also eventually merged with information abstracted from death certificates, usually with a linkage to the National Death Index (NDI). The value-added by these linkages comes at the expense of an increased risk of identifying individual respondents, potentially violating their privacy and confidentiality. To minimize these risks, the investigators who collect and distribute the survey data and the agencies that maintain administrative records have imposed access restrictions on the user community. These data use policies are in flux. Procedures governing access to the linked Social Security-HRS files are place, and similar access restrictions are expected for merged AHEAD-Social Security data as well. HCFA procedures governing access to files merging individual survey data from HRS/AHEAD with Medicare Claims files are under review. The LSOA and the NLTCS have established their own procedures for distribution of data to the research community. The overall goal of Core E is to encourage and guide the use of the richly detailed merged data sets now available while providing PARC with the expertise needed to accommodate forthcoming or changing access guidelines and new data files. The specific goals of this core are to: (1) develop in-house technical expertise to satisfy current and future restrictions on access to data files that include confidential information; (2) facilitate access of PARC associates to protected data files currently available; (3) educate PARC associates as to their obligations to comply with the terms of their access agreements; (4) monitor compliance of PARC associates with the terms of access to various files; and (5) maintain and expand in-house system expertise while simultaneously protecting restricted access files for multiple studies.