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Steps
for Approved Projects
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The following information is provided for researchers who have received
approval for their projects.
Obtaining Special Sworn Status
Researchers are required to obtain special sworn status prior to beginning research
at the California
Census Research
Data Center.
To obtain special sworn status, researchers must be fingerprinted, make a
sworn statement in the presence of a notary public, and provide additional
information for background checks. Once completed, this process establishes
the researcher as a temporary uncompensated employee of the U.S. Census
Bureau. While working on projects at the CCRDC, researchers should consider
themselves to be temporary uncompensated Census Bureau employees.
Researcher Agreements
Researchers with approved projects sign an agreement with the University of California
and the Center for Economic Stuies that stipulates
the conditions under which data may be accessed at the Research Data
Center. Any violation
of the terms of this agreement will result in the termination of the project.
Disclosure Analysis
All statistical output researchers that is removed from the CCRDC must
undergo disclosure analysis prior to removal. No printed or other output may
be removed from the research data center without approval from the RDC
administrator. Coordinating disclosure analysis with the RDC administrator
with sufficient lead time before conference presentations or submission of
journal articles is the responsibility of the researcher.
Post-Project Certification
All approved projects submit with their proposal a description of the
benefits their project will provide to the Census Bureau. At the end of the every project, a
write-up must describing how the promised benefits
were provided (or in some cases, why the researchers were not able to provide
them). Please remember that,
under the U.S. Code, Title 13, Chapter 5, the Census Bureau is allowed to
give the confidential data to researchers ONLY if the project will provide
suitable benefits to the Bureau.
Thus, documenting the benefits your project provided is VERY
important. Researchers not
completing this description of benefits will NOT be approved for future
projects.
Discussion Papers
Researchers are required to submit to the Center for Economic Studies a
working paper describing the results of work completed at the California Census Research
Data Center.
Submission of a working paper does not preclude publication elsewhere. If a
working paper has been published elsewhere, researchers are encouraged to
contact CES with the new citation, and the working paper will be removed from
circulation. Click here for discussion paper
guidelines. For reference, please
see the CES Working Papers
Series.
Disclaimer
The following disclaimer must be included with all researchers' publications
resulting from use of data at the California
Census Research
Data Center:
"This paper (chapter) reports the results of research
and analysis undertaken while the author(s) was a research affiliate at the
Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. It has
undergone a Census Bureau review more limited in scope than that given to
official Census Bureau publications.
Research results and conclusions expressed are those of the author and
do not necessarily indicate concurrence by the Census Bureau."
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