Public Use Databases
RAND conducted a survey designed to quantify the use of pesticides by the average U.S. military service member during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm between August 1990 and July 1991. Available documentation includes a report summarizing the results of the survey, the survey instrument and the survey dataset (including notes, notes.txt, and text fields, public_comments.txt; requires WinZip or other file expander software).
RAND's Contextual Data Library serves as a central data repository, funded by the Computing and Data Management Cores (Core B) of the RAND Population Research Center (NICHD grant P50 HD12639-16) and the RAND Center for the Study of Aging (NIA grants 5P01-AG08291 and P20-AG12815-01).
The Center for Aging actively supports empirical research on aging by facilitating the use of data sets commonly used in secondary analysis. Currently available are RAND versions of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) data.
The Family Life Surveys are a set of detailed household and community surveys of developing countries conducted by RAND, in collaboration with research institutions in the given countries. The currently available country surveys cover Malaysia (1976-77, 1988-89), Indonesia (1993), Guatemala (1995), and Bangladesh (1996).
The Data Management and Computing Core of the Population Research Center has acquired and translated documentation for Indonesian census and inter-censal data sets, collected by Indonesia's Central Bureau of Statistics.
The Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey (DNORS) is designed to examine the current location, well-being, and plans of people who lived in the City of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck on 29 August 2005. DNORS will produce a public use data set and documentation that will be available to all researchers.
RAND is currently conducting, under contract from the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), a statewide evaluation of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Program. RAND's CalWORKs Datasets: 1998 and 1999 All County Information Survey
Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A. FANS) is a longitudinal study of families in Los Angeles County and of the neighborhoods in which they live. L.A. FANS will produce a public use data set and documentation that will be available to all researchers.
The RAND Health Insurance Experiment is a 15-year, multimillion-dollar effort that encouraged the restructuring of private insurance and helped increase the stature of managed care. For information on obtaining data files, go to the RAND Health Insurance Experiment page.
The Central American Population Program of the University of Costa Rica maintains a Health and Fertility Archive.
The Public Health Preparedness Database contains a searchable database of exercises used to evaluate public health preparedness. The website and database were developed under contract #282-00-0005 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness (HHS-OPHEP).
The RAND Voices of Jihad Database compiles speeches, interviews, statements, and publications of jihadist leaders, foot soldiers, and sympathizers. Nearly all content is in English translation, and has been collected from publicly-accessible websites. Original links are provided, along with excerpts and full-text content when available.
The RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident Database is part of the Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB) compiled by the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT); it includes records of international terrorist incidents that occurred between 1968 and 1997 as well as domestic and international terrorist incidents that occurred from 1998 to present.
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