proposal outline and a sample proposal .
The RDC proposal requirements are similar to a grant or IRB application. The main differences are the researcher must:
They examine the proposal for disclosure risk, consistency with NCHS mission, appropriateness of the chosen dataset(s), availability of RDC resources, and feasibility of the project. The review committee issues of one of the following decisions:
Please submit any publications that result from work using RDC data to rdca@cdc.gov. When publishing, we ask that you specify that you accessed the confidential data through the Research Data Center. Here are some examples based on other published articles.
We accessed county level identifiers which are considered restricted-use variables through the NCHS Research Data center.
Because of access to restricted data made possible by the NCHS Research Data Center, we were able to merge respondent residence in a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), data not available in the public-use data sets, with the other public-use data.
Residence information is not available in the public use data set to protect respondent confidentiality. Therefore, we accessed residence data through the Research Data Center at the National Center for Health Statistics.
Please avoid statements such as:
Access and analyses of these data were approved by the NCHS Research Data Center.
If you would like, you can add the following disclaimer at the conclusion of your publication:
The findings and conclusions in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Research Data Center, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
*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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