Grant: Canadian Initiative on Soc Stats (CISS) Data Training Schools & Res Data Centres

The CRDCN started as a platform that enables STC, through its RDCProgram, to provide researchers with ready access to a growing number of confidential survey and administrative data files in what will soon be 31secure sites across the country. In the new grant period the Network will build on its considerable success as a platform that has engaged the attention of this country’s leading quantitative social science and health researchers: it will undertake an active role to ensure that the data resources that it offers are put to effective use, a role complementary to the Network support of independent research. More specifically, our intentionis to initiate, facilitate, and encourage collaboration among academic researchers, policy makers, and data producers in programs of research that will address policy concerns and priorities and to create teams of researchers to carry them out. In doing so, it will enlarge the resources available to the research community at large.