Resources

The CFDR staff provides support with a wide range of services. These services for faculty and student affiliates include data searches, data acquisitions and programming assistance with SAS, SPSS and STATA.

Grant Preparation:

  • Disseminate information about grant deadlines and opportunities
  • Organize mock study sections
  • Provide detail on new grant formats
  • Consult and advise at all stages of grant preparation
  • Consult about contact with funding agencies
  • Help draft text on research environment
  • Develop budget
  • Check references and bibliography

Grant Administration:

  • Provide office space and equipment for students/staff/consultants/visiting scholars
  • Assist with annual reports
  • Answer budget queries
  • Help manage human resources issues
  • Purchase statistical software
  • Assist with public access compliance
  • Provide up-to-date information on regulations

Workshops:

  • Grant writing
  • Programming: SPSS, SAS, Stata, R, and GIS
  • Statistical procedures
  • Demographic techniques
  • Commonly used datasets
  • Qualitative analyses
  • Short summer courses (e.g., longitudinal data analysis)

Research Support:

  • Conduct literature searches
  • Identify key facts or trends
  • Assist with data searches
  • Disseminate information on new and updated datasets
  • Maintain data archive
  • Acquire new data
  • Purchase software licenses and arrange installation
  • Help obtain restricted data
  • Interface with agencies on data contracts
  • Establish sample representativeness
  • Set up data entry
  • Help create contextual data files
  • Provide tables of contents service
  • Maintain Working Paper Series
  • Provide updates on conferences
  • Design webpages for funded projects
  • Provide secure data room
  • Create maps, posters, brochures, and briefs
  • Help facilitate working group meetings

Programming Assistance:

  • Provide coding examples
  • Consult on programming methods and strategies
  • Help with data conversion
  • Assist in data file construction
  • Help with SAS, Stata, and SPSS programming
  • Provide annotated output comparing SAS, Stata, and SPSS

Faculty Funding:

Workshop Series Resources
Training/Graduate Programs
Templates
Public Access Policy
Data
Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS)
National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT)
Marriage and Divorce Data Compass
Grant Opportunities
Ohio State Data Center

Updated: 02/01/2023 02:28PM