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Promise Neighborhoods Restricted-Use Data Files: Technical Specification and Requirements

Author: Urban Institute | Year of Publication: 2013

The Promise Neighborhoods restricted-use data files (RUDF) will contain individual-level and summary data on Promise Neighborhoods programs and participants. The Urban Institute will create the RUDF for the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from data collected by Promise Neighborhoods implementation grantees through surveys, case management systems, and administrative sources. This document specifies the data ED expects the grantees to provide to the Urban Institute for the RUDF. ED will make the RUDF available to approved researchers for conducting future studies on Promise Neighborhoods through a National Center for Education Statistics restricted-use license, with stringent restrictions on acceptable use that rule out attempts to identify any individuals in the data. Data in the RUDF will include information on the characteristics of persons and families who live in the Promise Neighborhoods or participate in Promise Neighborhoods programs, the types and amounts of services they received, and selected results measures (e.g., Government Performance and Results Act indicators). Implementation grantees and the Urban Institute will take appropriate steps to remove direct identifiers and to ensure the privacy of individuals and families is protected before the data files are delivered to ED or shared with other researchers. Grantees collected the last required RUDF data in 2016.

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