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SES Division of Social and Economic Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | July 1, 2016 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | July 1, 2016 |
| Award Number: | 1562503 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Nancy Lutz
nlutz@nsf.gov (703)292-7280 SES Division of Social and Economic Sciences SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences |
| Start Date: | July 1, 2016 |
| End Date: | June 30, 2019 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $299,999.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $299,999.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
500 S LIMESTONE LEXINGTON KY US 40526-0001 (859)257-9420 |
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500 S.Limestone,109 Kinkead Hall Lexington KY US 40526-0001 |
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Economics, Sociology, Methodology, Measuremt & Stats, Geography and Spatial Sciences |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.075 |
ABSTRACT
SES - 1562503
James P Ziliak
Christopher R Bollinger
Glen Mays
Eugenia F Toma
Derek Young
University of Kentucky
This project establishes the Kentucky Research Data Center (KRDC) in Lexington, Ky. as a partnership between the Bureau of the Census and the University of Kentucky, and will join an existing network of over two dozen such RDCs throughout the nation. In addition to faculty and students at the University of Kentucky, inaugural consortium partners are Indiana University, The Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Louisville. The establishment of KRDC will have a broad impact on the infrastructure available to scholars and students in the East-Central consortium region, whose translational research will impact economic, social, and health policy both regionally and nationally. Moreover, because many researchers at KRDC's consortium schools currently collaborate with colleagues at universities across the country with an RDC, the establishment of KRDC will significantly ease those collaborations, improve research productivity, advance the dissemination of published data products, and foster new research networks.
Research that informs evidence-based policy is in heightened need in this era of fiscal austerity and economic and demographic change. For purposes of preserving respondent confidentiality, many major social, health, and business surveys suppress identifying information such as state or county of residence from publicly released data. This inhibits certain forms of research, including tracking the health and economic status of individuals across states and over time, characterizing urban growth and decline using address-level unit status records of living quarters and nonresidential units, and the more formal statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of public policies. However, restricted-access research data centers (RDCs) permit the study of issues having scientific and social import within a secure environment that ensures respondent confidentiality.
The investigators affiliated with KRDC reflect the cross-disciplinary expertise of the consortium schools with the areas of economics, sociology, public health, public policy, statistics, nutrition, education, social work, and medicine represented. They will conduct research on topics spanning income inequality, poverty measurement and anti-poverty policies, education, health disparities across geographic regions, race and gender, domestic violence and substance use, food insecurity, immigration, and firm dynamics and government procurement processes. In the secure data environment, the projects will utilize nearly twenty different Federal statistical datasets supported by the Bureau of the Census, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and other federal agencies that contribute data to the RDC network such as the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Housing and Urban Development, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Department of Agriculture.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
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Research that informs evidence-based policy is in heightened need in this era of economic and demographic change. For purposes of preserving respondent confidentiality, many major social, health, and business surveys suppress identifying information, such as state or county of residence, from publicly released data. This inhibits certain forms of research, including tracking the health and economic status of individuals across states and over time, characterizing urban growth and decline using address-level unit status records of living quarters and nonresidential units, and the more formal statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of public policies. However, restricted-access research data centers (RDCs) permit the study of issues of scientific and social import within a secure environment that ensures respondent confidentiality.
This grant from the National Science Foundation established the Kentucky Research Data Center (KRDC) in Lexington, KY as a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau and the University of Kentucky Research Foundation. In addition to the University of Kentucky, inaugural consortium partners are Indiana University, The Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Louisville. KRDC is part of the nationwide system of Federal Statistical Research Data Centers, and its establishment had a broad impact on the infrastructure available to scholars and students in the East-Central consortium region, whose translational research will impact economic, social, and health policy, both regionally and nationally. Moreover, because many researchers at the KRDC?s consortium schools currently collaborate with colleagues at universities across the country with an RDC, the establishment of KRDC significantly eased those collaborations, improved research productivity, advanced the dissemination of published data products, and fostered new research networks. In the inaugural two years after the lab opened its doors, a website, located at http://krdc.uky.edu/, was launched describing policies and procedures for lab access and to disseminate research findings. In addition, fourteen projects have been approved for research, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Social Security Administration, National Center for Health Statistics, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. One project has been accepted for publication in one of the top peer-reviewed journals in economics?Journal of Political Economy. This project examined how data processing procedures employed by the U.S. Census Bureau affects estimates of poverty and inequality in the United States, showing that current processes result in substantial undercounts of the number of poor persons and lower estimates of inequality of earnings. The project exemplifies the goals of KRDC of using high-quality restricted data to improve the data collection efforts of our federal statistical agencies and the evidence base available to the research and policy communities.
Last Modified: 07/04/2019
Modified by: James P Ziliak
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