NACDA Mission
- Enhance and expand the longitudinal collections and further develop the archive to support behavioral and social science research on healthy aging worldwide.
- Focus on longitudinal, panel, repeat measure, and linked data while acquiring emerging biomedical data, lifecourse data, harmonized data, and data that are otherwise not readily available.
- Advise and assist in the archiving and documentation of data and metadata for researchers who are producing longitudinal, repeat-measure and linked data, including guidance in methods that ensure adequate confidentiality review and protection for geospatial data.
- Enhance services that make the archiving process easier and implement innovative solutions for safe distribution, including the active monitoring of data use.
- Distribute data and documentation to researchers in a form that will facilitate their efficient and cost-effective use.
- Facilitate secondary analysis by providing user support, data access, training, and consultation.