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DHSc ARP Guide: Data Collection Sources

This website will serve as a guide for all students enrolled in the Applied Research Project (ARP) course series, DHSC8020 (pre-requisite) and DHSC9015 to 9055. Please refer to the guide often for direction following up with the ARP Facilitator as needed.

Sources of Data

There are two sources of data: primary and secondary. Primary sources of data are data gathered directly by the researcher, including surveys/questionnaires, interviews, observations, and biophysical measurements (e.g., heart rate, blood pressure, weight, muscular strength). Secondary sources of data are existing data available through databases, such as "health-related data [collected] through the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the U.S. Bureau of the Census..." (Portney & Watkins, 2015, p. 295).

Portney, L.G. & Watkins, M.P. (2015). Foundations of clinical research: Applications to practice (3rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis

Example Secondary Sources of Data

APCD Council. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.apcdcouncil.org/ 

Analyze CHIS Data | UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/analyze/Pages/default.aspx

CDC - BRFSS Annual Survey Data. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/annual_data.htm

CDC WONDER. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://wonder.cdc.gov/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (n.d.). Research, Statistics, Data & Systems. Retrieved from https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems.html

Existing Surveillance Data Sources and Systems - A Nationwide Framework for Surveillance of Cardiovascular and Chronic Lung Diseases - NCBI Bookshelf. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK83157/

Get GSS Data | NORC. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://gss.norc.org/Get-The-Data

Harvard Dataverse. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://dataverse.harvard.edu/?q=&types=datasets&sort=dateSort&order=desc&page=1

Hawaii Health Data Warehouse. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://hhdw.org/

Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). Retrieved from http://hints.cancer.gov

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/

MPC Data Projects. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ipums.org/

NHANES - Questionnaires, Datasets, and Related Documentation. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/nhanes_questionnaires.htm

NHIS - Questionnaires, Datasets, and Related Documentation from 1997 to the Present. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/quest_data_related_1997_forward.htm

NNYFS - NNYFS Comprehensive Data List. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/search/nnyfs12.aspx

NYC Open Data. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://data.cityofnewyork.us/

OFHS and OEHS Public Datasets : The Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://grc.osu.edu/omas/datadownloads/ofhsoehspublicdatasets/

Sodapop. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://sodapop.pop.psu.edu/

The Association of Religion Data Archives | Quality Data on Religion. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.thearda.com/

The Data Web - DataFerrett (U.S. Census Bureau). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://dataferrett.census.gov/

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics - PSID. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/

US Census Bureau, D. I. D. (n.d.). Small Area Health Insurance Estimates for Counties and States (SAHIE). Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/did/www/sahie/data/20082013/index.html

YRBSS | Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System | Data | Adolescent and School Health | CDC. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.htm

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