Research Program

The Center for Economic Studies (CES) and its network of Census Research Data Centers (RDCs) support and encourage research activity using Census Bureau microdata to improve Census Bureau programs. CES and the RDCs provide access to researchers, federal agencies, and other institutions to non-publicly available Census Bureau data files.
2007 Annual Research Report (PDF - 984kb)

News

*Updated* Call for Papers - NSF-Census-IRS Workshop on Synthetic Data and Confidentiality Protection
A workshop that will bring together university-based researchers, members of the international official statistical community, and other interested user communities is planned for July 31, 2009, the Friday before the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, DC.
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Call For Papers - 2009 Census Research Data Center Conference
The 2009 Census Research Data Center Conference will be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY on October 5 and 6. Highlights will include participation from researchers working in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, as well as a poster presentation option in addition to the standard paper presentation format. Further details are available at the Cornell Virtual RDC .
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Call for Papers - Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (Micro) Data 2009
The 9th Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (Micro) Data Conference will be held from Friday, October 2 to Sunday, October 4, 2009 in Tokyo. This will be the first CAED Conference held in Asia. The aim of the CAED conferences is to promote scientific research using enterprise micro data. Details of the 2009 CAED Conference are available at the conference website. Call For Papers
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AHRQ Data Available Through Research Data Centers
The Center for Economic Studies (CES) 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.
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Center for Economic Studies Dissertation Mentorship Program
The Center for Economic Studies wants to assist doctoral candidates who are actively engaged in dissertation research in economics or a related field using U.S. Census Bureau microdata at a Research Data Center.
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NCHS Announcement
As announced earlier, data from the National Center for Health Statistics are also available through the RDCs.

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NCHS RDC Guidelines
NCHS RDC Datasets

Discussion Papers

Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data
Abraham, Haltiwanger, Sandusky, Spletzer

Employer Health Benefit Costs and Demand for Part-Time Labor
Feenstra Schultz, Doorn

Credit Market Competition and the Nature of Firms
Cetorelli

Trends in Regional Industrial Concentration in the United States
Drucker

Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach
Jenkins, Burkhauser, Feng, Larrimore

Complex Survey Questions and the Impact of Enumeration Procedures: Census/American Community Survey Disability Questions
Houtenville, Erickson, Bjelland

Upcoming Seminars

05/07US Trade in Toxics -- CANCELED
Becker Tang
05/21Entry and Exit under Trade Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence
Handley
06/03TBA
Arzaghi
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Questions about the seminars can be e-mailed to ces.seminars@census.gov