NEW YORK CENSUS RESEARCH DATA CENTER

A Partnership for Research

The New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC) at Baruch College is one of nine secure facilities in the country that provide researchers with the opportunity to engage in approved projects that use the confidential microdata collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The NYCRDC represents the collaborative effort of the Census Bureau and 14 prominent social science research organizations: Baruch College, The City University of New York, Columbia University, Cornell University, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Fordham University, The National Bureau of Economic Research, New York University, Princeton University, The Russell Sage Foundation, Rutgers University, the University at Albany of the State University of New York, Stony Brook University of the State University of New York, and Yale University. The NYCRDC also received generous support from the National Science Foundation (grant SEC-0322902 and grant ITR-0427889) to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

All research proposals must undergo a rigorous and extensive review process before they can be carried out at an RDC. Researchers must be able to demonstrate that projects using Census data benefit the Census Bureau, meet standards of scientific merit and feasibility, and satisfy stringent and confidentiality requirements. Proposals requesting NCHS and AHRQ data must meet criteria outlined by those agencies.

For more information regarding proposals and the Census RDC program, refer to the main NYCRDC web site at www.ciser.cornell.edu/NYCRDC/home.shtml or the Center for Economic Studies site at www.ces.census.gov.