UMBC Institutional Review Board

UMBC Institutional Review Board

Publicly available, de-identified sources

The use of data from the following list of IRB approved public data sets is not considered human subject research as long as the following two criteria are met:

•Research will NOT involve merging any of the data sets in such a way that individuals might be identified

• Researcher will NOT enhance the public data set with identifiable, or potentially identifiable data

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• National Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project(healthcare databases)

• American National Election Studies
• National Election Studies

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System(public data only)

• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• ICPSR Archives and Projects(click link to search for archived datasets)

• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• Murray Research Center

• National Cancer Institute
• SEER Data, 1973-2011

• NationalCenter for Health Statistics
• National Health Care Surveys
• National Health InterviewSurvey
• National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
• Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey

• National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
• Database of Longitudinal Studies
• Virtual Repository of Human Biospecimen

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) Public Use Datasets

• National Institute of Justice Data Resources Program
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

• NationalOpinionResearchCenter
• General Social Survey
• International Social Survey

• National Science Foundation
• Science Resources Studies

• PennsylvaniaStateUniversity, Department of Sociology
• American Religion Data Archive

• PhysioNetWorks
• MIMIC II Clinical Database
• MIMIC III Clinical Database

• Sociometrics Corporation
• Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library

• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
• Children's Mental Health Initiative

• U.S. Department of Education
• National Center for Education Statistics(public use sources only)
• Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS)(public use sources only)

• U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
• National Longitudinal Surveys

• University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics
• Health and Retirement Study

• University of Minnesota, History Department
• Integrated Public Use Microdata Samples

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CarolinaPopulationCenter
• The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health - public use

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Demography of Health and Aging
• Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

• U.S. Census Bureau
• American Factfinder

Last updated 02/22/2017