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NBER: FW: Workshop on U.S. Census Bureau's & CDC's non-public microdata
Subject: FW: Workshop on U.S. Census Bureau's & CDC's non-public microdata
From: Joan Stillwell (stillwel@nber.org)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2007 - 12:36:30 EST
The following message is forwarded at the request of David Cutler. It
describes a workshop to be held at Stanford University which may be of
interest to faculty in the area.
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>From: pcor-adjunct-bounces@mailman.stanford.edu
>[mailto:pcor-adjunct-bounces@mailman.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Amber Hsiao
>Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:40 PM
>To: pcor-corefaculty@mailman.stanford.edu;
>pcorfellows07@mailman.stanford.edu;
>pcor-facultyfellows@mailman.stanford.edu;
>pcor-associates@mailman.stanford.edu; pcor-adjunct@mailman.stanford.edu
>Subject: Workshop on U.S. Census Bureau's & CDC's non-public microdata
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> Hi All,
>
>The below announcement may be of interest to you. It is a workshop for
>faculty and grad students who might be interested in accessing data sets
>at the Census Bureau and the CDCs National Center for Health Statistics.
>Please contact Chris Thomsen
>(<mailto:CThomsen@stanford.edu>CThomsen@stanford.edu) with any questions.
>
> Thanks,
>
>Amber
>__________________________
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>AMBER HSIAO
>Information Editor/External Relations Coordinator
>Center for Health Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
>Center for Primary Care & Outcomes Research, School of Medicine
>Stanford University
>117 Encina Commons, Room 183 | Stanford, CA 94305-6019
><mailto:amhsiao@stanford.edu>amhsiao@stanford.edu | P. 650.723.0759 | F.
>650.723.1919 | healthpolicy.stanford.edu
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>Faculty and graduate students are invited to a workshop on the study of
>non-public microdata collected by the U.S. Census Bureau and the CDC's
>National Center Health Statistics. Topics to be covered include:
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>* an explanation of kinds of data and their use for research
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>* guidance on proposal development for access to the confidential data
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>* plans for new Stanford secure data center
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>The workshop will be led by Matthew Snipp (Professor of Sociology), Henry
>Brady (Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at UC Berkeley)
>and Andrew Hildreth (research director of the California Census Research
>Data Center.)
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>A listing of the NCHS data sets just made available through the census
>centers can be found at:
><http://www.stanford.edu/group/iriss/blog/archives/2007/02/national_center.html>http://www.stanford.edu/group/iriss/blog/archives/2007/02/national_center.html
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>Two sessions will be offered:
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>Monday, March 19 at 4:15
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>Newhall Room at the Littlefield Center of the Graduate School of
>Business. Light snacks available.
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>Tuesday, March 20 at noon
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>Wallenberg Learning Theater, Wallenberg Hall, Main Quad. Lunch available.
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>Please RSVP to: Afrooz@Stanford.edu
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>The workshops are hosted by the Institute for Research in the Social
>Sciences and the California Census Research Data Center.
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