[Isl] FW: Florida Census RDC

[Neil Charness]

Hi Folks:

See below for a new initiative that would make it much easier to access protected federal data sets.  Best, Neil

Neil Charness, Ph.D., William G. Chase Professor of Psychology
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Subject: Florida Census RDC

Dear Faculty,

As some of you have heard, FSU, in partnership with UF as the project lead, has secured funding from the National Science Foundation for starting a secure Federal Statistical Research Data Center (RDC). Dr. 
Joe Grzywacz (College of Human Sciences) and I are the project leads here at FSU. The Florida RDC facility will be housed at UF in Gainesville and is anticipated to be operational later in 2021. An overview of the planned center can be found here:

https://www.census.gov/about/adrm/fsrdc/locations/florida.html

UF has developed a job advertisement for an RDC administrator, which is attached to this email. Feel free to distribute the notice as you see fit.

Utilization of the new facility at UF will be encouraged via multiple approaches. Among the RDC’s plans are the creation of a seed grant program aimed at facilitating access to the new facility, and it is possible that the seed grant program might assign some priority to graduate student-led research. These discussions are still ongoing and more information will be forthcoming. A summary of the data available from RDCs may be found here:

https://www.census.gov/about/adrm/fsrdc/about.html

I know several folks had ideas for possible research projects that they might undertake if they had access to these protected data. As we move forward, I would be happy to discuss where you are with these project ideas and if the topics remain of interest to you. At that same time, I’d be keen to know about additional ideas faculty might have for utilizing Census RDC resources to access protected data.

Thank you for your time. Please feel free to share this update with anyone you feel I may have missed on the email, and do not hesitate to contact me directly with any follow up questions or concerns. More information will be forthcoming as additional details of the RDC and its programs take shape.

Mark

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