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Research Data Centers

There are currently 33 open Federal Statistical Research Data Center (RDC) locations.  The RDCs partner with over 50 research organizations including universities, non-profit research institutions, and government agencies.


Atlanta
Founded in 2011, the Atlanta RDC is located in the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and attracts researchers from across the Southeast.


Boston
Founded in 1994, the Boston RDC is located at the NBER in Cambridge and provides secure data access to researchers from across New England.


California - Berkeley
Founded in 1998, the California RDC at Berkeley is located on the UC Berkeley campus, and serves researchers from the Bay Area to Northern California.


California - Irvine
Opened in late 2014, the California RDC at Irvine is located in the Social Sciences Gateway Building on the University of California, Irvine campus.


California - Stanford
Founded in 2009, the Stanford RDC operates in partnership with the California RDC, serving San Francisco peninsula and Northern California researchers.


California - UCLA
Founded in 1998, the California RDC at UCLA is located on the UCLA campus and provides data access to researchers in southern California.


California - USC
Founded in 2014, the California-USC RDC is located on the campus of the University of Southern California.


Central Plains
Opened in November 2015, the Central Plains RDC serves researchers at universities within the Central Plains region.


Chicago
Founded in 2003, the Chicago RDC consortium includes the Chicago Fed, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois.


Dallas-Fort Worth
Opened in 2018, the Dallas-Fort Worth FSRDC is located in the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and provides access to researchers in the region.


Federal Reserve Board
Opened in 2019, the Federal Reserve Board RDC is located in Washington, DC and serves researchers throughout the Washington, DC metro area.


Florida
Opening in 2022 at the University of Florida, the Florida RDC will give researchers across Florida access to federal microdata.


Georgetown
Opened in 2017, the Georgetown RDC is located at the Massive Data Institute at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.


Kansas City
Opened in February 2016, the Kansas City RDC is located at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and attracts researchers from across the region.


Kentucky
Opened in 2017, the Kentucky RDC is located on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, and will serve researchers in the East-Central region.


Maryland
The Maryland RDC is a joint project of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the School of Public Health.


Michigan
Founded in 2003, the Michigan RDC is located at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor.


Minnesota
Founded in 2010, the Minnesota RDC supports researchers at the University of Minnesota and welcomes other researchers from the Twin Cities and Upper Midwest.


Missouri
Opened in November 2015, the Missouri RDC is located at the Ellis Library on the University of Missouri campus, and serves all researchers in the region.


New York - Baruch
Founded in 2005, the NYRDC-Baruch is located at Baruch College-CUNY in New York City and serves researchers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.


New York - Cornell
Founded in 2005, the NYRDC-Cornell is located in Ithaca and provides data access to researchers in the Finger Lakes region of New York State.


Northwest
Founded in 2012, the Northwest RDC is located in Seattle and provides secure access to restricted data for researchers in the region.


Penn State
Founded in 2014, the Penn State RDC is located in the Paterno Library in the center of the University Park campus.


Philadelphia
Opened in 2017, the Philadelphia FSRDC is located in the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and attracts researchers from across the East.


Rocky Mountain
Opened in 2017, the Rocky Mountain RDC is located at the Un. of Colorado Boulder and serve researchers along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.


Texas
Founded in 2012, the TXRDC is located at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and provides data access to researchers in the region.


Texas - UT Austin
Opened in 2017, UT-Austin provides researchers in central Texas secure environment to access federal statistical data.


Triangle Research Data Centers
Founded in 1999, Triangle RDC has two locations at Duke and UNC that serve the social science research community across North Carolina and southern Virginia.


University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The UIUC RDC provides researchers with the opportunity to conduct approved research projects using confidential federal data.


Wasatch Front
Opened in August 2020, the WFRDC is located at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.


Wisconsin
Opened in September 2015, the WiscRDC is located in the heart of the UW Madison campus, and serves a strongly interdisciplinary community.


Yale
Founded in 2015, the Yale RDC serves researchers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Page Last Revised - December 20, 2022
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