About

The RMRDC Mission

The mission of the RMRDC is to promote and facilitate research that could benefit from using restricted federal statistical data especially related to economic, population, and health issues of local, regional, and national importance. Statistical analysis of the data must strictly conform to U.S. Census Bureau security guidelines and is allowed only after the project has been approved and its investigators have passed security background checks. 

Funding and Support

Funding for the RMRDC comes from the financial commitments made by RMRDC consortium member research organizations and universities. The lead institution is the University of Colorado Boulder, where the RMRDC is housed at the Institute of Behavioral Science. 

The Role of the U.S. Census Bureau

The RMRDC operates through a contract between the University of Colorado Boulder and the U.S. Census Bureau. This contract requires the RMRDC to enforce the security guidelines outlined by the Census Bureau and to employ a Census Bureau employee who will counsel researchers on proposal development and ensure that security guidelines are communicated and enforced.

All data used by approved projects reside on the servers of the FSRDC network, which are managed and secured by the U.S. Bureau of Census.