To use the RDC, you must send a complete proposal to the RDC Director, as an email attachment. To make this process as easy as possible, we've provided a proposal checklist and a sample proposal .
Upon receipt, the proposal will be evaluated by a review committee for feasibility, content, and disclosure risk. The committee meets on a rolling basis. An RDC Staff Analyst will contact the researcher(s) within a week of the completed review. The total turnaround time is about 6-8 weeks.
The Proposal Review Committee consists of the:
The Proposal Review Committee will issue one of the following decisions:
Please note: Approval of an application does not constitute endorsement by NCHS of the substantive, methodological, theoretical, policy relevance, or merit of the proposed research. NCHS approval only constitutes a judgment that this research, as described in the application, is not an illegal use of the requested data file and that there is high probability that the project can be successfully completed in the RDC.
Peter Meyer, Director
Research Data Center
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