TCRDC Helps Duke Researchers Like Ph.D. Student Deborah Rho

TCRDC Helps Duke Researchers Like Ph.D. Student Deborah Rho

15 April 2013 8:57AM

To most people, the U.S. Census Bureau is simply the government office that, every ten years, counts the number of people who live in the United States.

But to many researchers at Duke University, the Census Bureau is a rich source of demographic and economic data, data that make it possible to answer all sorts of important and interesting questions.

A lot of the data, however, are confidential, and rightfully so: would you want any member of the public to have the ability to look up your salary or age? So how are researchers at Duke able to access and use them? Normal.dotm 0 0 1 82 470 Duke University 3 1 577 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}

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Enter the Triangle Census Research Data Center (TCRDC).

Read how the TCRDC helps Duke researchers, including Deborah Rho, a PhD student in economics. Article written by Paul Dudenhefer.

See the entire Spring issue of GIST, the Social Science Magazine of Duke University.