Survey on Equitable Access to Federal Restricted Data (deadline 8/15)

[Pettit, Kathryn]

Sharing this request from an external colleague for survey respondents about accessing federal restricted access data. It would be great to have representation from local nonprofits and other folks interested in local analysis to improve accessibility of these rich data.

Best, Kathy

 

Kathryn Pettit

Senior Fellow

Co-Director, National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

Pronouns: she/her/hers

 

U R B A N   I N S T I T U T E

 

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We’re reaching out to researchers working at less-resourced public colleges or universities, minority-serving institutions (MSIs), local and state government agencies, and a small nonprofit agencies with an opportunity to respond to a survey to help generate effective and practical strategies to assist researchers access and conduct restricted-access data research and inform structural changes and practices in the FSRDC network to make evidence-building research more inclusive, equitable and representative of diverse perspectives.

 If you are interested in responding to the survey, please follow the link below. The survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. We ask that you also broadly share this email and survey link with colleagues.

 Tis survey will close on August 15, 2024.

 We would appreciate your insights and feedback on:

●     Perceived barriers to restricted-access data research

●     Supports needed to conduct restricted-access data research

●     Datasets of interest

●     Access modality preferences

●     Interest and confidence in conducting restricted-access data research

 

Survey Link:

Equitable FSRDC Access Feedback Survey

 At the end of the survey, an opportunity to be invited to participate in focus groups to discuss topics and insights in greater detail will also be provided.

 The survey is being conducted by the Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center, a member of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) network, as part of the project as part of project Challenges to inclusive and equitable evidence-building research in the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs) which is part of a larger National Secure Data Service Demonstration (NSDS-D) project.  sponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation (NSF).

 

Study 2024-0198           IRB Approval: May 23, 2024

If you have any questions about this survey or project, you may contact:

 Shannon Degenhart, PhD, 

Title: Research Specialist

Organization: Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center (TXRDC)
Phone: (979) 845-5618

Email:  shdeg...@tamu.edu

 

Thank you!

 

Additional Information about the FSRDC Network

The Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) network is a nationwide network of 33 Research Data Centers (RDCs) which provide researchers, with approved projects, access to highly restricted federal statistical data. The FSRDC network is a collaboration among the Census Bureau, other federal agencies, and research institutions. Each RDC comprises a partnership of multiple institutions and organizations and is co-administered by an institutional director and a Census Bureau administrator. These RDCs are an invaluable resource for many types of scientific endeavors, allowing researchers to access otherwise unavailable data such as: detailed geographic data, firm- and establishment-specific economic data, individually-linkable demographic data, and more.

 

These data come from agencies such as, but not limited to: 
 

●        The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ),

●        The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA),

●        The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),

●        The Census Bureau

●        The Internal Revenue Service (IRS),

●        The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES),

●        The Bureau of Justice Statistics,

●        The Bureau of Transportation Statistics,

●        The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),

●        The Social Security Administration (SSA),

●        The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),

●        The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and

●        The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

Over 800 projects have used RDC data.