National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program

Announcements

Research paper competition winners announced

ICPSR is pleased to announce the winners of our 2012 Research Paper Competitions.

Quentin Karpilow of Kenyon College won the Undergraduate Competition with his paper "Racial and Ethnic Threats in Pretrial Release Processing." The paper used State Court Processing Statistics, 1990-2006, County Characteristics (2000-2007), 1998 and 2000 Uniform Crime Reports, and the 1999 National Jail Census to examine pretrial release outcomes for adult defendants charged with drug felonies according to their racial or ethnic backgrounds and various community and incarceration settings. Karpilow was a 2011 ICPSR Summer Intern and has earned a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics. This paper was selected as the second-place winner of the 2012 North Central Sociological Association Student Paper Competition for Undergraduates.

Zornitsa Kalibatseva of Michigan State University won the Master's Competition with her paper "A Symptom Profile Analysis of Depression in a Nationally Representative Sample of Asian Americans." The study uses the National Comorbidity Survey to examine the differences in symptoms of depression between Asian Americans and European Americans.

The first-place award in the Resource Center for Minority Data Paper Competition was won by Amanda Mireles of Princeton University for her paper "Cultural Capital Investments: Concerted Cultivation and the Academic Achievement of Hispanic Kindergarten Students." Mireles analyzed data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to measure academic achievement of Hispanic students. She earned a B.A. with High Honors in Sociology, received Certificates of Proficiency in African American Studies and Latino Studies, and is the recipient of the 2011 Isidore Brown Thesis Award for this paper.

Second-place in the RMCD competition went to Danae Ross of Wayne State University for her paper "Black Feminism and Hip Hop: A Cross-Generational Disconnect." The paper used the 1993 National Black Politics Study to investigate the impact of a strong feminist perspective on the likelihood of listening to rap music among black women. Ross is a McNair Scholar, has earned a B.A. with High Honors in English and Sociology, and has been accepted in the Ph.D. program in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. This paper was selected as the third-place winner for the 2012 North Central Sociological Association Student Paper Competition for Undergraduates.

The first-place winners received $1,000; the second-place prize is $750. All the papers used data from the ICPSR or RCMD archive.

ICPSR is holding three competitions this year:


All competitions are open to undergraduate and master's students, and recent graduates. See the competition Web site for details. Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2013.

2012-05-07

Slides, video available from webinar on HIV, drug addiction archive

Slides and video are now available from the ICPSR webinar held February 21, 2012, on the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program.

Presenters Amy Pienta and Kaye Marz described how NAHDAP facilitates research on drug addition and HIV infection by enhancing, sharing,and preserving data from research grands funded by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse.

The slides (PPTX, 10.1MB) and video (WMV, 38.6MB) are available now for viewing.

The webinar covered the following topics:

Data Sharing:

  • Technical assistance with data preparation
  • Educational activities to promote data sharing
  • Proposal preparation and data sharing plans
  • Confidential data and Restricted data dissemination

Data Use:

  • Identifying drug abuse and HIV data
  • Customized sub-setting and on-line analysis
  • Retrieval and use of data files from the archive
  • Related Bibliography

2012-02-21

Webinar scheduled on the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program

Join us on Feb. 21 for a webinar titled “The National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program: Supporting Research Data Sharing and Use.”

The goal of this 60 minute webinar is to describe the ways the National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP) facilitate research on drug addiction and HIV infection by enhancing, sharing, and preserving data produced by research grants funded by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse. This webinar will cover:

Data Sharing:

  • Technical assistance with data preparation
  • Educational activities to promote data sharing
  • Proposal preparation and data sharing plans
  • Confidential data and Restricted data dissemination

Data Use:

  • Identifying drug abuse and HIV data
  • Customized sub-setting and on-line analysis
  • Retrieval and use of data files from the archive
  • Related Bibliography

The webinar will take place from 1-2 p.m. EST on Feb. 21. To register and for more information, please go to https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/640715546.

2012-02-07

ICPSR invites submissions for 2012 Research Paper Competitions

ICPSR invites submissions for our 2012 Research Paper Competitions from undergraduates and master’s students at member institutions.

  • The ICPSR Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the ICPSR General Archive or Thematic Collections.
  • The IFSS Research Paper Competition, for analyses on any topic using data from the Integrated Fertility Survey Series .
  • The RCMD Research Paper Competition, for analyses on issues relating to minorities in the United States, including immigrants, using data from the Resource Center for Minority Data.

The purpose of these competitions is to highlight student research papers using IFSS, RCMD, or ICPSR data. The objective is to encourage students to explore the social sciences by means of critical analysis of a topic supported by quantitative analysis of a dataset(s) held within ICPSR, IFSS, or the RCMD archive and presented in written form. Undergraduates or master’s competition entries could be papers written for a capstone course, a senior seminar, or any writing intensive course for which the student uses quantitative data analysis to support or refute a hypothesis. A master’s thesis could be appropriate provided that the terms above are met.

Competitions awards are $1,000 for first place and $750 for second place. The deadline for submission is January 31, 2012. Please share this exciting opportunity with your faculty and students!

2011-11-01

NAHDAP announces the release of new datasets

NAHDAP announces the release of the following datasets:

Drug Use Trajectories: Ethnic/Racial Comparisons, 1998-2002 [United-States]

Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS): A Comparison of Two Reentry Strategies for Drug Abusing Juvenile Offenders, 2003-2009 [United States]

2011-06-23

NAHDAP awards subcontracts for drug/alcohol abuse data

Researchers in alcohol and drug addiction and HIV/AIDS will soon have easy access to data from several important studies thanks to five subcontracts recently awarded by the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP) through a contract with National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

The participating studies will receive funds to process and prepare their data for public distribution through the NAHDAP Web site.

The subcontractors are:

  • the Center for Education and Drug Abuse Research (CEDAR) at the University of Pittsburgh
  • the Oregon Youth Substance Use (OYSUP) project at the Oregon Research Institute
  • the Older Drug User Study at Kennesaw State University in Georgia
  • the Enhanced Linkage of Drug Abusers to Primary Medical Care project at Boston Medical Center
  • the Archiving Two Chicago NIDA-Funded Epidemiological Surveys project at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

All of the studies were funded by NIDA and will become part of the NAHDAP archive when completed.

NAHDAP’s innovative subcontracting system advances the goal of promoting the wide dissemination of research data on drug and alcohol abuse by providing financial incentives as well as training in data processing to the participating studies. Typically, data would be processed by NAHDAP staff — under these subcontracts, staff from the participating research centers will be trained in data processing so that data from subsequent research projects can be more easily deposited with ICPSR and disseminated to the public.

At the end of the one-year subcontracts, data from each project will be posted and made available on the NAHDAP Web site.

NAHDAP’s mission is to acquire, preserve and disseminate data relevant to drug addiction and HIV research. It is funded by NIDA.

2011-06-22

NAHDAP releases two datasets

The National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program is pleased to announce the public-use release of two datasets from the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Studies (CJ-DATS).

The HIV/Hepatitis Prevention for Re-Entering Drug Offenders surveyed former prison inmates in two groups: one received standard, one-hour, CDC intervention to track their possible illicit activity upon release, while the other received CJ-DATS Targeted Intervention, which is more interactive. The goal was to determine if there were differences in behavior based on the type of intervention received.

The Detention to Community dataset tracked juvenile offenders with history of drug abuse, and also splits them into two groups: one received standard services, and the other went through Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy. The goals were to determine the best, targeted services to address drug abuse, delinquency, and sexual risk taking among juveniles released from detention facilities; to test innovative intervention which link in-detention and outpatient services; and to test a family-based HIV/AIDS prevention program.

These releases continue NAHDAP’s mission to acquire, preserve and disseminate data relevant to drug addiction and HIV research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

2011-02-02

NAHDAP releases Inmate Pre-Release Assessment, 2001

The National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program is pleased to announce the public-use release of the Inmate Pre-Release Assessment 2001, a post-release survey from the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS).

The IPASS was developed specifically as a post-release risk measure for prison-based substance abuse treatment graduates by taking into account the inmates’ historical drug use and criminal activity, as well as his or her performance during the prison-based treatment program.

2011-01-10

NAHDAP disseminating restricted-use data on acquisition and transmission of HIV

The National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program is pleased to announce the release of its first restricted-use dataset on HIV, the Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program (SATHCAP), 2006-2008.

SATHCAP is a multisite study designed to assess the role of drug use in the sexual transmission of HIV from high-risk groups, such as gay men and drug users, to lower-risks groups, such as non-drug-using sexual partners.

The dataset is the second restricted-use release by NAHDAP, which archives and disseminates data from research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

To access the data, users must first set up a MyData account, and then fill out a Restricted Use Contract Data application.

Please contact Sabrina Bauroth at savripas@umich.edu or 734-615-7827 if you have any questions about the SATHCAP Restricted Use Contract application.

2011-01-04

ICPSR annual report released

ICPSR's 2009-2010 annual report (pdf) is now available. The report describes a productive year, with increases in membership and revenue, and progress on a wide range of new initiatives.

The report highlights three new projects at ICPSR: the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program, the China Multi-Generational Panel Dataset-Liaoning, and the Restricted-Use Contracting System.

Three ICPSR researchers are also profiled: JoAnne McFarland, director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive; Christopher Ward, project manager at the Integrated Fertility Survey Series; and John Garcia, ICPSR's director of diversity and leader of the Resource Center for Minority Data.

Grant revenue, overall revenue, and our fund balance all increased in the 2009-2010 fiscal year. At the end of the year, ICPSR had nearly 690 members, and more than $19.1 million in revenue.

2010-10-26

ICPSR offers guidelines on data management plans

As one of the leaders in data archiving for nearly 50 years, ICPSR is in a unique position to assist researchers with the data management plans increasingly being required by federal funding agencies such as NIH and NSF. Therefore, we are pleased to offer a new set of guidelines for preparing data management plans. We hope these resources can assist researchers in all disciplines meet these new requirements, and better understand how to preserve and disseminate their research data.

Our guidelines provide a detailed list of the elements of a data management plan, developed through a gap analysis of existing recommendations for such plans. We also list existing examples of data management plans, as well as other resources available on the Web.

Depositing data with ICPSR can be an integral part of a data management plan. In fact, the NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences recently named ICPSR as an archive that would help grant applicants meet its requirement for data storage. Our data management plan guidelines also provide information on how to deposit data with ICPSR.

We plan to update our guidelines regularly, and welcome any suggestions via email at web-support@icpsr.umich.edu.

ICPSR is also hosting a Webinar on data management plans as part of our Social Science Data Fair scheduled for November 8-11. Enrollment is currently open for all sessions.

2010-10-25

James McNally, NAHDAP Director

Dr. McNally is responsible for the oversight of NAHDAP's activities and will lead the development of the new archive, which seeks to facilitate the sharing and dissemination of drug abuse and HIV data to the broader research community.

Dr. McNally has been with ICPSR since 1988 and also leads the NACDA Program on Aging, a NIH/NIA P30 Center. The Center's primary responsibility is the oversight of the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), a repository of over 1,600 studies on health and the aging lifecourse. Dr. McNally has been recognized for his work both in archival development and on the measurement of health and the use of complex data. Originally trained in formal demography at Georgetown University, he developed an interest in gerontology while at Brown University and in policy research while at Syracuse University's Center for Policy Research. He works primarily on issues of family support and health among the aged, both in the United States and internationally. He does methodological research on the repair of deficient data and has been cited as an expert authority on imputation in deliberations before the U.S. Supreme Court. His work in HIV research began in the 1980s and he is currently following changes in knowledge and attitudes towards HIV in the sample population 30 years later as this group enters their 50s and 60s. He is a member of the Research Faculty at the LBGT Population Center, located at Fenway Health in Boston, where he is interested in the characteristics of long-term HIV survivors.

Dr. McNally has been the principal investigator of multiple NIH funded research grants associated with the archiving and dissemination of secondary data, including confidentiality and disclosure risk management and the creation of a biomarker registry.

2010-10-22

Funds available to archive data: increased number of awards and extended deadline

The National Addiction & HIV Archive Program is seeking requests for proposals for subcontracts focused on acquiring datasets on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse.

NAHDAP anticipates awarding up to five contracts with a maximum of $50,000 each in direct cost and limited indirect costs. The term will be February 1, 2011 thru December 15, 2011.

Subcontractors must be able and willing to deposit datasets on HIV/AIDS or drug addiction resulting from research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Details are available in the subcontract competition document. Applications are due by December 10, 2010.

NAHDAP is funded through a contract with NIDA with the goal of acquiring, preserving and disseminating research relevant to drug addiction and HIV research.

2010-10-13

NAHDAP releases datasets from the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies

The National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program is pleased to announce the release of two data series from the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) — the Performance Indicators for Corrections (PIC) and the Targeted Interventions for Corrections (TIC).

The TIC measures the effects of treatment programs for criminal justice populations in order to develop an evidence-based library of targeted treatment interventions, including those for HIV/AIDS prevention. The material is primarily drawn from existing drug-treatment resources, especially those developed by CJ-DATS Research Centers.

The aims of the PIC are to develop and establish methodological evidence in evaluating client functioning and treatment engagement; client responses to treatment interventions; and strategies for monitoring needs and performance over time, program functioning, and organizational change.

2010-10-04

NAHDAP releases criminal justice and drug abuse treatment dataset

The National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP) is pleased to announce the release of the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) from the National Criminal Justice Treatment Program Survey (NCJTP) Survey in the United States, 2002-2008.

The NCJTP Survey included participation from key criminal justice administrators, managers, and staff in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and the data collected relates to current practices in a range of community correctional settings for adults and juveniles.

The goal of the survey is to describe current practices and policies; examine agency structures; and assess coordination and integration between corrections and treatment systems.

2010-09-08

NAHDAP disseminating restricted-use data from NSPY

The National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program is now responsible for disseminating restricted-use data from the National Survey on Parents and Youth.

To access the data, users must first set up a MyData account, and then fill out a Restricted Use Contract Data application.

Please contact Sabrina Barouth at savripas@umich.edu or 734-615-7827 if you have any questions about a NSPY Restricted Use Contract application.

2010-08-25

ICPSR researcher publishes op-ed in Chronicle

ICPSR researcher Felicia LeClere has published an opinion essay in on the Chronicle of Higher Education's Web site on the topic of data sharing.

The piece addresses the emerging paradigm shift toward more sharing of data among funding agencies and scientists. The essay also takes on, point by point, the most common arguments against sharing primary research data.

The movement toward more data sharing is being pushed forward by a new policy at the National Science Foundation requiring grant seekers to provide data-management plans describing how and when data will be shared. The policy is set to be in place around October, according to the NSF.

2010-08-03

Want to learn more on data sharing?

NAHDAP has recently added a couple of new links to resources on data sharing (from NSF and NIH) and written a document on effective data sharing plans.

Additional information can be found on the Deposit page on our Web site.

2010-06-21

NAHDAP hires team

Principal Investigator Felicia LeClere has named a team of researchers and technicians to operate NAHDAP as it begins its five-year grant term. LeClere has been with ICPSR since 2005, and also manages the Data Sharing for Demographic Research program. NAHDAP’s archive manager is Sabrina Avripas Bauroth, a Licensed Master Social Worker who came to NAHDAP after managing a depression disease management program funded by the National Institute of Mental Health at the University of Michigan Health Service Department of Family Medicine. Tannaz Sabet, who has been with ICPSR since 2001, will serve as research area specialist, with responsibility for data evaluation and processing. Sheldonn Plummer, who graduated from the University of Michigan with bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Psychology in 2010, is NAHDAP’s senior research technician. She will prepare all datasets for archiving and dissemination.

2010-06-02

NAHDAP provides guidance for preparing data for deposit

NAHDAP has outlined the steps necessary to prepare data for easy and efficient deposit into the archive in a new fact sheet. The guidance addresses issues including missing data, ID or case identification variables, date formats, and descriptive and technical variables. Following these guidelines will allow for expedited deposit of data into NAHDAP for use by the HIV/drug abuse research community.

2010-06-01

NAHDAP outlines methods of data release

Researchers have many options for releasing their data through NAHDAP, according to a new fact sheet released by the program. Depending on the data’s sensitivity and proposed audience, NAHDAP can provide:

  • public data release, in which all data and documentation are available to anyone who registers with the NAHDAP Web site
  • restricted-use release for data with strong disclosure risks, typically involving users’ Institutional Review Boards and review by NAHDAP staff
  • enclave data release, limited to users who travel to our headquarters in Ann Arbor, MI, and adhere to strict procedures for data use, for data with direct identifiers such as street addresses.

NAHDAP staff can assist data depositors in identifying the appropriate way to release their data, which can include a combination of methods.

2010-06-01

NAHDAP highlights reasons to deposit data

With one of NAHDAP's goals being the archiving and dissemination of research data on HIV infection and drug addiction funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the program is emphasizing the scholarly and technological advantages of depositing data with us.

Sharing data with other researchers expands scientific knowledge and generates additional research which is credited to the original source. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, for example, which has been in the public domain since its inception, has produced more than 3,000 publications in the last 20 years authored by people not on the original research team.

NAHDAP's fact sheet on sharing data also addresses ownership of the data; assistance available for data preparation; and issues related to complex data and disclosure control practices.

2010-06-01

Upcoming data releases

The following NAHDAP datasets will soon be available for use in SPSS, SAS, Stata, and ASCII formats:

  • The National Survey of Parents and Youth (NSPY)
  • Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS)
  • Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program (SATH-CAP)

Some of the datasets will also be available for online analysis in SDA (Survey Documentation Analysis).

2010-05-26

NAHDAP featured at several upcoming events

The National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP) will take part in the following events:

2010-04-29

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