Rehabilitation Dataset Directory: Repository Profile

Repository: Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR)

Basic Information
Repository Full Name	Data Sharing for Demographic Research
Repository Acronym	DSDR
General Theme or Special Population	Population demographics
Summary	The Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR) is a data sharing project providing curation, archiving services and a shared data infrastructure to support demographers housed in the population centers funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and researchers whose data have particular relevance to the demographic and population sciences community. Topics include health and mortality, early life conditions, children and youth as well as older adult health. Although DSDR focuses on data collected through funding from the NICHD Population Dynamics Branch (PDB), it also provides services for other data sets that fall within the scientific mission of PDB. DSDR is supported by the PDB of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and housed within the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan.
Key Terms	Population data centers, Population characteristics, Demographics, Genomics data, Data harmonization, Restricted data, Health and mortality, Migration, Early life conditions, Older adult health, Children and youth
Sponsoring Agency/Entity	National Institutes of Health (NIH), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Datasets Information
Data Type(s)	Primarily survey and interview based data
Continent(s)	Asia, Central America & Caribbean, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America, Africa,
Countries	International
Strengths and Limitations
Strengths	Extensive listing of datasets related to population and demographics (nearly 900 as of March 2020). Easy to use browsing and filtering capabilities. DSDR curated datasets are well documented. Includes a wide variety of datasets and topical areas, both public access and restricted use.
Limitations	A number of the datasets listed are not available in the repository. Information regarding these is limited - typically only include a brief summary description with an external link to the Principal Investigator (PI) or institute to contact and request data.
Data Repository Details
Primary Website	https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/DSDR/index.html
Repository Tools	Extensive search & filtering capabilities including by subject, keyword, geography, time period, data availability & format. For datasets with data residing in, or curated by DSDR/ICPSR (~95 datasets): Extensive & complete documentation Variable lists & frequencies Online data analysis (24 datasets) Data-related publications list Social Science Variables Database (SSVD) enables users to search for variables across datasets,compare results, and download data.
Data Submission Requirements	Deposits should include all data and documentation necessary to independently read and interpret the data collection.
Data Submission Process	Data deposit process: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/DSDR/deposit.html
Data Access	DSDR holdings search : https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/DSDR/access/index.html
Data Access Requirements	DSDR includes both public and restricted use datasets. Access requirements vary by dataset.