The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) is a partnership between a consortium of Canadian universities and Statistics Canada, through its Research Data Centre Program, to provide university, government and other approved researchers ready access to a vast array of social, economic and health confidential microdata in secure computer facilities located on university campuses across the country.
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In 2018, the central staff embarked on an ambitious National Engagement Strategy to consult our partners and researchers on their vision for the national network. The result of this cross-country tour combined with input from our Board of Directors was a new strategic plan for 2019-2024. The plan focuses on our growth as a physical, community, and institutional network and expands on the vision of CRDCN as Canada's national platform for leading edge research and training in the quantitative social and population health sciences to provide social, economic, health and environmental benefits for Canadians.
The CRDCN turned 15 in 2015, and this book tells the story of this quantum leap forward in quantitative social science research capability in Canada, paying tribute to the men and women who made it happen. You can read it online or order your own copy.
An RDC is a university-based laboratory, staffed by a Statistics Canada Analyst, which offers researchers:
Universities wishing to establish an RDC on site can find out how to do so in the documents below. Except in exceptional circumstances, new research data access facilities will begin as Branch RDCs, attached to an existing RDC, and remain as such until the level of activity warrants consideration as a full Centre.