DSDR Data Sharing for Demographic Research

DSDR^[1] (Data Sharing for Demographic Research)^[2] is a project of ICPSR in collaboration with the Carolina Population Center (CPC)^[3] at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Minnesota Population Center (MPC)^[4] at the University of Minnesota, the Population Studies Center (PSC)^[5] at the University of Michigan, the Hopkins Population Center (HPC)^[6] at Johns Hopkins University, and the Population Research Center^[7] at the RAND Corporation. The DSDR project is supported by the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

The first five years of the DSDR project established the basis for a shared data infrastructure to support demographers housed in NICHD-funded population centers and those researchers whose data have particular relevance to demographic research. DSDR provides data archiving, preservation and dissemination as well as other data infrastructure services. DSDR continues to introduce new technologies, such as the online Restricted Contracting System (RCS) and data architecture to help re-engineer the ways in which we provide these services. DSDR's goal continues to work toward a unified legal, technical, and substantive framework in which to share research data in the population sciences.

Mission Statement

The DSDR mission is supported by several key aims:^[8]

• Public-Use Data Sharing

Provide investigators with tools that will help them to disseminate public access versions of their data, including consultation about dissemination strategies, assistance with disclosure risk analysis, and the development of user-friendly documentation, metadata, and user tools. DSDR aims to create a searchable index of key demographic and population research.

• Restricted-access Data Sharing

Provide investigators with tools and strategies for the dissemination of restricted-access (confidential) data. Consult researchers about categories of data that require restriction, model restricted-access contracts, standards for the establishment of secure data downloads, and enclave facilities in North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota at which restricted-use data can be made available. Provide management of restricted-access data dissemination for investigators who wish to turn the responsibility over to DSDR, or whose project funding has ended.

• User Support, Outreach, and Specialized Training

Assist investigators in ensuring that potential users can locate their data, get support in all the stages of acquisition and use, and receive appropriate training in data use, especially for complex datasets. Consult and collaborate with data producers to prepare data for archiving, conduct data confidentiality and disclosure reviews, and provide data producers with models to guide them through the data preparation process.

• Archiving

Provide long-term secure archiving of public-use and restricted-use data, in order to ensure that these resources are permanently preserved for future use.

• Research and Development

Improve the science of data sharing and archiving, by investing in improvements to the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and in the design of software to enhance Web-based dissemination, and by selectively investigating questions of study design and dissemination related to confidentiality, security, and disclosure risk.

List of Studies in the DSDR Archive

• Biodemographic Models for Reproductive Aging (BIMORA) Project
• Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study
• China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset - Liaoning (CMGPD-LN), 1749-1909
• Chinese Household Income Project, 2002
• Chitwan Valley Family Study: Changing Social Contexts and Family Formation
• Great Plains Population and Environment Data Series: Agricultural Data, 1870-1997; Social and Demographic Data, 1870-2000
• Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA), 2004
• India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005
• Japan 2000 National Survey on Family and Economic Conditions (NSFEC)
• Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS)
• Low Fertility Cohorts Study, 1978: A Survey of White, Ever-Married Women Belonging to the 1901-1910 United States Birth Cohorts
• The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP)
• The Nang Rong Projects
• National Couples Study (NCS)
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 1999-2000
• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth), 1994-2002
• National Survey of Adolescents, 2004
• Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS): Wave 1, 2001
• Time, Love, and Cash in Couples with Children Study (TLC3), 2000-2005

References

1. ^ [1]^{[dead link]}
2. ^ http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/DSDR/
3. ^ "UNC Carolina Population Center". Cpc.unc.edu. http://www.cpc.unc.edu/. Retrieved 2011-10-22. 
4. ^ "Welcome to MPC | Minnesota Population Center". Pop.umn.edu. http://www.pop.umn.edu/. Retrieved 2011-10-22. 
5. ^ "Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan". Psc.isr.umich.edu. http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/. Retrieved 2011-10-22. 
6. ^ "Hopkins Population Center". Web.jhu.edu. http://web.jhu.edu/popcenter. Retrieved 2011-10-22. 
7. ^ "Population Research Center". RAND. 2010-09-15. http://www.rand.org/labor/population/. Retrieved 2011-10-22. 
8. ^ [2]^{[dead link]}

External links

• DSDR (Data Sharing for Demographic Research)
• ICPSR (The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
• ISR (The Institute for Social Research (at the University of Michigan))
• RAND Corporation
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Columbia Population Research Center
• DSDR Facebook page