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The RMRDC Mission
The mission of the RMRDC is to promote and facilitate research that could benefit from using restricted federal statistical data especially related to economic, population, and health issues of local, regional, and national importance. Statistical analysis of the data must strictly conform to U.S. Census Bureau security guidelines and is allowed only after the project has been approved and its investigators have passed security background checks.Ìý
Funding and Support
Funding for the RMRDC comes from the financial commitments made by RMRDC consortium member research organizations and universities. The lead institution is the Â鶹ӰԺ, where the RMRDC is housed at the .Ìý
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The Role of the U.S. Census Bureau
The RMRDC operates through a contract between the Â鶹ӰԺ and the . This contract requires the RMRDC to enforce the security guidelines outlined by the Census Bureau and to employ a Census Bureau employee who will counsel researchers on proposal development and ensure that security guidelines are communicated and enforced.
All data used by approved projects reside on the servers of the FSRDC network, which are managed and secured by the U.S. Bureau of Census.
RMRDC Consortium Members and Representatives
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- ​Jani Little, RMRDC Executive Director (jani.little@colorado.edu)
- ​Catherine Talbot, RMRDC Administrator (catherine.b.talbot@census.gov)
- Haeseong Park, Graduate Research Assistant (haeseong.park@colorado.edu)
- University of Colorado Denver
- ​Laura Argys (laura.argys@ucdenver.edu)
- University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
- Glen MaysÌý(glen.mays@cuanschutz.edu)
- Colorado State University
- Anita Alves Pena (anita.pena@colostate.edu)
- Tim Komarek (tim.komarek@colosatate.edu)
- Colorado State University-Pueblo
- ​Kevin Duncan (kevin.duncan@csupueblo.edu)
- University of Wyoming
- Alexander James (ajames7@uwyo.edu)
- University of Denver
- ​Markus Schneider (markus.schneider@du.edu)
- Colorado School of Mines
- Benjamin Gilbert (bgilbert@mines.edu)
- Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety
- Joshua Black (joshua.black@rmpdc.org)
- University of Texas El Paso
- Caitlyn N. Muniz(cnmuniz@)
- University of New Mexico
- Robert Rhatigan (rhatigan@unm.edu)