Lab 1: Finding Sources, Documents, and Data

CISER (public site)

Find the documentation for the 2000 Census of Population and Housing Public Use Micro Sample.

What is a public use microsample area (PUMA)?

What is a confidentiality edit (hint: you might want to look here)?

Research Data Center (public site)

Create an account for yourself.

What is the Longitudinal Business Database?

What is the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program Business Register Bridge?

How many steps are there in the process of submitting a research proposal to the RDC system?

What is the difference between proposals that access only Title 13 data and those that access Title 13 and Title 26 data (hint: read the criteria document)?

Virtual Research Data Center (account needed)

Verify that your VRDC account works.

What is an SSH tunnel?

Why does the VRDC use VNC desktops?

What are synthetic data?