NYCRDC Executive Director Position Announcement

The NYCRDC Consortium is seeking applicants for the part-time post of Executive Director.  Click here for the position announcement.  Applications should be received by February 15, 2008.

SIPP Synthetic Beta data now available
November 2007

There is a significant opportunity to use a new data product from the
Census Bureau, SSA, and IRS that is now underway.

The Census Bureau recently released the beta version of a new data
product that links the Survey of Income and Program Participation to the
respondents' full lifetime history of earnings (W-2, box 1, uncapped)
since 1978 and FICA eligible earnings since 1937. Social Security
benefit information is also included. The proposed public-use data were
synthesized to protect confidentiality.

While the file is in beta, anyone may use it but an application is
necessary, and only the variables on the proposed public-use file can be
used. The benefit of using the beta version of this file is that your
analysis will also be run on the underlying confidential data without
further application. For those who are unfamiliar with these data, use
of the underlying confidential data (SIPP linked to SSA earnings)
normally requires approval of an RDC-based project.

Full description of the application process and data:
http://www.bls.census.gov/sipp/synth_data.html

Full description of the analysis environment on the Cornell Virtual RDC:
http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/?page_id=276

Email address for questions and applications:
hhes.synthetic.data.use.list@census.gov

This project was supported by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Social
Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, and the National
Science Foundation.

Thanks,
John,

--
John M. Abowd
Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and
   Professor of Information Science
Director, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER)
Contact information: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/jma7/

AHRQ data now available at NYCRDC at Cornell and Baruch
June 2007

The Center for Economic Studies (CES) http://www.ces.census.gov is pleased to announce that the Census Bureau has reached agreement with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to make AHRQ's restricted Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data available to qualified researchers through the Census Research Data Center (RDC) network.

Proposals will be accepted by CES beginning July 1, 2007 to use AHRQ data sets. AHRQ has specified a proposal format on their data center website and will handle all proposal review and also disclosure avoidance review for their data; they have agreed to waive their fee for creating the researcher's data extract for RDC researchers. Standard Census RDC access charges, if any, will apply. Proposals to use their data at any site other than their headquarters site in Rockville MD will be submitted through the standard Census RDC proposal process, but will not have to meet Census Bureau standards, just AHRQ standards (see their website). (Proposals to use confidential data from both the Census Bureau and the AHRQ must use the existing Census Bureau application procedure, and will also be reviewed by AHRQ, and the Internal Revenue Service if tax data is involved.)

All researchers will need to become Special Sworn Status (SSS) employees of the Census Bureau -- in case of incidental access to confidential Census Bureau or Internal Revenue Service data while in an RDC -- and will also be required to become National Center for Health Statistics agents (as AHRQ data is based on the National Health Interview Survey), and take the appropriate training for both roles.

Researchers currently using the Rockville AHRQ data center will be able to transfer their research to a Census RDC site once they become SSS employees. Contact the appropriate Census RDC Administrator for more information on the SSS process.

For more information on the proposal process or the datasets, see the AHRQ data center web site at http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/onsite_datacenter.jsp

List of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Datasets that will be available:
a. Household Component-Insurance Component linked file (1996-1999, 2001)
b. Nursing Home Component (1996)
c. Medical Provider Component (except directly identifiable data)
d. Two-Year, Two-Panel Files
e. Area Resource File (county-level data that can be linked to MEPS-HC)
f. MEPS-HC Public Use Files

AHRQ will create a custom extract (e.g., merged analytic files with linking variables removed) for each project.

Please contact AHRQ at CFACTDC@AHRQ.HHS.GOV for complete details on additional non-public MEPS data available for RDC use. Other AHRQ confidential data files may be made available at a later date.

Trade data sets now available at Census RDCs
February 2007

Three trade data sets are now available to include in proposals for Census RDCs. These trade data include, export trade data (1992-2005), import trade data (1992-2005) and exporter database (1987,1992, 1996-2004).

1. Export trade data (1992-2005, approx 24 million obs depending on year)
Information on U.S. exports of merchandise from the U.S. to all countries, except Canada, is compiled from copies of Shipper's Export Declarations (SEDs) and SED data from qualified exporters, forwarders, or carriers.  Copies of SED's are required to be filed with Customs officials at the port of export. The SED is unique among Census Bureau forms since it is not sent to respondents soliciting responses as in the case of surveys. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection initially collects the SED at the port of export and subsequently transmits it to the Census Bureau. Each SED represents a shipment of one or more kinds of merchandise from one exporter to one foreign importer on a single carrier. Filing the SED is mandatory under Chapter 9, Title 13, United States Code. Qualified exporters, forwarders, or carriers submit SED data by automated means directly to the U.S. Census Bureau. 

2. Import trade data (1992-2005, approx 47 million obs depending on year)
Published information on U.S. imports of merchandise is compiled primarily from automated data submitted through the U.S. Customs' Automated Commercial System. Data are compiled also from import entry summary forms, warehouse withdrawal forms and Foreign Trade Zone documents as required by law to be filed with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Data on imports of electricity and natural gas from Canada are obtained from Canadian sources.

3. Exporter database (1987,1992, 1996-2004)
The exporter data, provided in “A Profile of U.S. Exporting Companies” (Exporter Profile), are compiled by the Foreign Trade Division of the U. S. Census Bureau, using the Exporter Database. The Exporter Profiles are developed to provide both government and private sector users with information about the exporting community including employment size, type of company, and major foreign markets.

For more info, see http://www.ces.census.gov

NCHS data available at NYCRDC at Cornell and Baruch
Jan 31, 2007

To: rdc-info@lists.census.gov
From: daniel.h.weinberg@census.gov
Date: 01/31/2007 10:11AM
Subject: NCHS data to be available at Census RDCs


The Center for Economic Studies (CES) is pleased to announce that the Census Bureau has reached agreement with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to make NCHS data available to qualified researchers through the Census Research Data Center (RDC) network.

Proposals will be accepted by CES beginning February 15, 2007 to use many of the NCHS data sets (see the list below). NCHS will handle all proposal review and also disclosure avoidance review for their data, and will charge a small fee for creating the researcher's data extract. Standard Census RDC access charges, if any, will apply. Proposals to use their data at any site other than their headquarters site in Hyattsville MD will be submitted through the standard Census RDC proposal process, but will not have to meet Census Bureau standards, just NCHS standards (see the Guidelines on the NCHS RDC website). (Proposals to use confidential data from both the Census Bureau and the NCHS must use the existing Census Bureau application procedure, and will also be reviewed by NCHS.)

All researchers will need to become Special Sworn Status (SSS) employees of the Census Bureau -- in case of incidental access to confidential Census Bureau or Internal Revenue Service data while in an RDC -- and will also be required to become NCHS agents, and take the appropriate training for both roles.

Researchers currently using the Hyattsville NCHS RDC site will be able to transfer their research to a Census RDC site once they become SSS employees. Contact the appropriate Census RDC Administrator for more information on the SSS process.

For more information on the proposal process or the datasets, see the NCHS RDC web site at
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/rdc.htm.


List of Datasets that will be available
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I, II, and III
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery
National Hospital Discharge Survey
National Nursing Home Survey
National Home and Hospice Care Survey
National Employer Health Insurance Survey
National Health Provider Inventory
National Health Interview Survey 1967-2005
National Immunization Survey
Longitudinal Study on Aging
National Survey of Family Growth
State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey
a. Health
b. Child Well-Being and Welfare, 1997
c. National Survey of Early Childhood Health
d. National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs
e. National Survey of Children's Health
f. National Asthma Survey
g. National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Vital Statistics
a. Birth
b. Mortality
c. Marriages and Divorces
d. Fetal Death
e. National Death Index

Linked Data
National Health Interview Survey with Mortality data 1986-2000
National Health Interview Survey with Medicare Enrollment and Claims data
1991-2000
National Health Interview Survey with Social Security Administration
Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance data 1962-2003
National Health Interview Survey with Social Security Administration
Supplemental Security Income data 1974-2003
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I Epidemiologic Follow-up
Study with Mortality data 1971-2000
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I with Medicare Enrollment
and Claims data 1991-2000
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I with Social Security
Administration Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance data
1962-2003
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I with Social Security
Administration Supplemental Security Income data 1974-2003
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II with Mortality data
1976-2000
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II with Medicare
utilization and expenditure data 1991-2000
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III with Mortality data
1988-2000
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III with Medicare
Enrollment and Claims data (CMS-1991-2000)
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III with Social Security
Administration Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance data
1974-2003
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III with Social Security
Administration Supplemental Security Income data 1974-2003
Longitudinal Study of Aging II with Mortality data 1994-2002
Longitudinal Study of Aging II with Medicare Enrollment and Claims data
1991-2000
Longitudinal Study of Aging II with Social Security Administration
Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance data 1962-2003
Longitudinal Study of Aging II with Social Security Administration
Supplemental Security Income data 1974-2003
1985 National Nursing Home Survey with Mortality data 1985-2002
1985 National Nursing Home Survey with Social Security Administration
Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance data 1962-2003
1985 National Nursing Home Survey with Social Security Administration
Supplemental Security Income data 1974-2003
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2006 Research Data Center Conference

New York Census Research Data Center
Baruch College, CUNY
September 14, 2006

The 2006 Research Data Center Conference was held September 14, 2006 at Baruch College in New York City.  Links to the program, abstracts, and presentations can be found here.

Professor Sanders Korenman new NYCRDC Executive Director

To friends of the New York Census Research Data Center:

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC), I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Sanders Korenman of the City University School of Public Affairs (SPA)at Baruch College as our new Executive Director, starting on September 16. He will assume leadership just as the NYCRDC-Baruch opens its doors for business later this month. The NYCRDC-Cornell is already open for business.

Sanders Korenman, an economist, has been a member of the SPA faculty since 1996. In 1997-98 he served as Senior Economist for labor, welfare, and education for President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. He was a member of the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Academy of Sciences from 1998 to 2003. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Recent research includes studies of the effect of welfare reform on marriage and fertility, and the socioeconomic effects of the attack on the World Trade Center. His web page:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/spa/Faculty/SandersD.Korenman.jsp

At this juncture, we offer our sincerest thanks to Professor Neil Bennett, our outgoing first Executive Director, who so ably led the effort to get the NYCRDC off the ground. The upcoming opening at Baruch is due in large part to his work over the past few years.

Regards,
Erica L. Groshen
on behalf of the Board of Directors of the NYCRDC

2005 Census Research Data Centers Conference

The 2005 Census Research Data Centers Conference will be held October 27, 2005 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and is hosted by the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER).

INFO 747: Social and Economic Data

Spring 2005
Instructor:  John M. Abowd
Wednesdays 7:00 - 9:30pm
Ives 115
4 credits

The course is designed to teach the student all the basics required to acquire and transform raw information into social and economic data. Legal, statistical, computing, and social science aspects of the data "production" process will be treated. Major emphasis will be placed on U.S. Census data that are accessible from the Census Bureau's Research Data Center network. This version of the course has been specially prepared for graduate students who are planning to use RDC-based data or are seriously considering it. RDC-based data products covered include the new Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) micro data; the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and its predecessor the Longitudinal Research Database (LRD); internal versions of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Current Population Survey (CPS), American Community Survey (ACS), American Housing Survey (AHS), and the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Census of Population and Housing; the Employer Business Register (BR and SSEL); the Censuses and Annual Surveys of Manufactures, Mining, Services, Retail Trade, Wholesale Trade, Construction, Transportation, Communications, and Utilities; Business Expenditures Survey; Characteristics of Business Owners; and others. Students will be introduced to the new NSF-sponsored Virtual Research Data Center.

Core topics include:

• Basic statistical principles of populations and sampling frames
• Acquiring data via samples, censuses, administrative records, and transaction logging
• Law, economics and statistics of data privacy and confidentiality protection
• Data linking and integration techniques (probabilistic record linking; multivariate statistical matching)
• Data imputation techniques
• Analytic methods for complex linked data sets

For a detailed description and syllabus visit the course web site at: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/info747/.