Resources for using publicly available data about veterans.
The RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute’s data hub is a resource repository for selected national datasets that assess veteran status. These resources are for researchers and other stakeholders looking to advance their understanding of our veteran population. Specifically, the institute created codebooks for each relevant dataset that provides an overview of the dataset, how to access the data, which variable(s) assess veteran status, other veteran-related questions, and additional resources for using the data. All codebooks below cite directly from the original documentation of the data source when providing descriptions of specific variables.
Currently, codebooks are available for the following datasets:
These publicly available datasets and RAND codebooks were used to develop a collection of infographics focused on veterans’ social, economic, and physical well-being.
