What is DSDR?

We are a data sharing project for the demography and population sciences community. As part of our mission, we serve all population centers, but in particular, we provide data curation and archiving services for the centers for population studies.

Our Mission

Increase the impact of NICHD-funded research within the scientific mission of the NICHD-Population Dynamics Branch by providing research infrastructure to:

• Promote data sharing
• Support the development of procedures and technologies for data sharing
• Disseminate best practices in data sharing
• Provide a resource that catalogs NICHD-funded data available for secondary analysis
• Promote the secondary analysis of data collected through NICHD grants to research teams outside the original grantees

Review the Literature

The Bibliography of Data-related Literature contains 32,600 + citations of works using data held in the ICPSR archive. Use it to:

• Identify research that has already been undertaken in an area
• Replicate analyses of data
• Avoid duplicating analysis that has already been done
• Identify cross-disciplinary implications and uses of data

Get Results with Online Analysis

Run basic crosstabs, frequencies, and more complex analyses for many DSDR studies without downloading data! From a study homepage, select the "Analyze Online" button to explore this feature. Visit the DSDR page on SDA to learn more!