Data @ VirtualRDC

1 Overview

The following datasets are available on the VirtualRDC, in either dummy (zero-obs) form, or with some content based on public-use data. Check the Data section for updated documentation on these datasets. Some documentation on the full dataset may be available on the CES website.

2 Types of datasets

The VirtualRDC does not host confidential data of any type. Here’s what types of data we have:

• public -use data: Public use data not (easily) available elsewhere, or because they have a use in the analysis of synthetic data.
• Synthetic data: replicates the exact structure and the statistical properties of the original (confidential) dataset, without using any of the original confidential data content. They are, of course, also public-use datasets…
• Zero-obs or dummy datasets: replicate the exact structure of the original dataset, but contain no data at all – no original data, no synthetic data, none.
• Public-use based replica: replicates the exact structure of the original (confidential) dataset, with the content of a similar publi-use dataset reformatted to resemble the original dataset

3 Available public-use datasets

• Download-only:
  • Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI)
• Access on compute servers only :
  • Public-use  files (constantly but idiosynchratically updated)

    /data/clean for clean SAS and Stata data sets
    /data/doc for documentation on the available files

    You will find SAS and Stata versions of many datasets, including QWI and OnTheMap, here. If you see a dataset missing which you would wish to have available, let us know.

  • There might also be a small set of public-use data in the RDC-compatible structure under

    /ssgprojects/virtualrdc/{economic,demographic,decennial,mixed}

4 Available synthetic datasets

• OnTheMap synthetic data (1 replicate from Versions 3, 4, and 5 –the current version on the Census Bureau OnTheMap site). Please consult the VirtualRDC OnTheMap website
• Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database
• SIPP Synthetic Beta file

5 Available dummy datasets

Zero-obs datasets have the basic structure of the (confidential) datasets, without containing any data. To effectively use them, users should reference a path as (in SAS)

%let prefix=/data/virtualrdc;
libname INPUTS "&prefix./economic/ocd/microdata";

When transferring programs to the Census RDC, setting

%let prefix=;

and making no other changes will let the programs work as-is on the confidential data in the Census RDC.

The following zero-obs datasets are available on VirtualRDC nodes:

• LEHD Infrastructure files FROM 2004 SNAPSHOT (documentation)

  /mixed/lehd/s2004/brb/us/brb_us_brlist.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/brb/us/brb_us_ecflist.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/brb/us/brb_us_xwalk.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ecft26/ca/ecf_ca_sein_t26.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ecft26/ca/ecf_ca_seinunit_t26.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ecft26/ca/ecf_zz_sein_t26.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ecft26/ca/ecf_zz_seinunit_t26.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ecft26/ca/es202_ca_t26.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ecf/zz/ecf_zz_sein.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ecf/zz/ecf_zz_seinunit.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ehf/zz/ehf_zz_controltotals.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ehf/zz/ehf_zz_phf.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ehf/zz/ehf_zz.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ehf/zz/ehf_zz_sein_employment.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ehf/zz/ehf_zz_shf.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ehf/zz/ehf_zz_uhf.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/ehf/zz/ehf_zz_uniqpik.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/galt26/zz/gal_zz_2003_br_2001.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/galt26/zz/gal_zz_2003_t26flags.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/galt26/zz/gal_zz_2003_t26.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/gal/zz/gal_zz_2003_acspow_2001.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/gal/zz/gal_zz_2003_ahs_2002.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/gal/zz/gal_zz_2003_es202only.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/gal/zz/gal_zz_2003_maf_2004.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/gal/zz/gal_zz_2003.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/gal/zz/gal_zz_2003_xwlk_2001.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/icft26/zz/icf_zz_t26.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/icf/zz/icf_zz_implicates_age_sex.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/icf/zz/icf_zz_implicates_county.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/icf/zz/icf_zz_implicates_education.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/icf/zz/icf_zz.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/qwi/zz/qwi_zz_seinunit.sas7bdat
  /mixed/lehd/s2004/u2w/zz/u2w_zz.sas7bdat

• Other Census RDC datasets:

  demographic/acs
  demographic/ahs
  demographic/cps
  demographic/sip
  economic/asm
  economic/brdis
  economic/cbo
  economic/cmf
  economic/crt
  economic/csr
  economic/ilbd
  economic/lbd
  economic/meps
  economic/ocd
  economic/qfr
  economic/rnd
  

• Internal decennial census microdata dummy datasets

  decennial/1970cen
  decennial/1980cen
  decennial/1990cen