New Data for Researchers

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has opened a Research Data Center (RDC) in Atlanta at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) facility. The new RDC will be open to CDC researchers and the public. The Atlanta RDC will provide access to the full NCHS data portfolio of restricted data and will also be a mechanism for providing access to other CDC surveillance data to external researchers.

NCHS and the U.S. Census Bureau have agreed to allow access to NCHS data at ten Census Bureau RDCs around the country and another RDC is expected to open at the University of Minnesota soon. NCHS data are being accessed on more than 25 research projects throughout this network. This represents a major step forward in NCHS's efforts to expand access to its data files. By making its data available through RDCs, NCHS can provide secure access to the full range of health and vital statistics information that it collects, while continuing to protect the confidentiality of the respondents and records. For more information about the NCHS RDC, visit www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/rdc.htm.

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