Faculty and students at the University of Chicago who are affiliated with CHAS, either as Members or Fellows, or working on research projects associated with CHAS, can request for CHAS to sponsor statistical support from the Center for Health Statistics.  Please petition for support and explain your project needs to chas@ssa.uchicago.edu.

CHS has several projects accessible online, including:

MVPreg | MIXZIP | RMASS | BIFACTOR | SuperMix | Mixed-Up Suite | NPPL | LPL

The Center for Hospital and Healthcare Administration History (CHHAH) plays a dual role: making accessible to researchers and policy analysts the knowledge and experience of the past and collecting, preserving, and organizing information about today’s issues that will have lasting value for the future.  The Center was established by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American College of Healthcare Executives and is coordinated by the AHA Resource Center in collaboration with the Health Research and Educational Trust. The mission of the Center is to chronicle the history of hospitals and healthcare administration, especially that of the United States. The Center has become the collector and caretaker of collections and resources that in sum are the history of hospitals and healthcare administration. The Center is located at 155 North Wacker Drive – Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60606. The Resource Center’s hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. central time, Monday through Friday.  Inquiries may be directed via telephone:  (312) 422-2050 or email at rc@aha.org.

SSA and CHAS are happy to announce that we have continued our support and partnership with the Library and the Social Sciences Division in order to bring you access to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).  As a member of the UChicago community, you may access ICPSR from any computer on campus. Off-campus access is coming soon.  ICPSR is a repository of over 500,000 data sets that have been compiled by researchers in a broad range of disciplines. These data sets can be downloaded for analysis with major statistical packages, such as SPSS and SAS. Data sets range from broad topics like the U.S. Census to very specific topics, such as “Voting Results Under a Single-Transferable-Vote System in Malta, 1921-1996“, “The Evangelical Voter in the United States, 1983” or “Collective Memory in Lithuania, 1989“

Access ICPSR here  If the link does not work, copy and paste this url in your browser: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp  You will need to create an account so you may sign in to ICPSR.  There is no cost associated with the account.  After you establish your account and sign in, you will be able to find data sets, compare variables, and find publications as well as having access to other resources.

The Department of Statistics invites faculty, staff, and students of the University to participate in its consulting program. Consultation is provided by graduate students of the Department with guidance from faculty members. Assistance is available in the areas of applied probability, statistical design, choice and application of statistical methods, analysis of data, and interpretation of results. Clients are encouraged to seek consultation at the design stage of their research.

There is no fee for participation in the program, but participants will generally be required to make available a machine-readable version of their data. Participation will be limited to projects judged to provide the greatest potential benefits for both consultants and clients. In addition, as the number of quarterly requests for consultation generally exceeds the capacity of the program, potential clients are encouraged to make their participation requests early in the quarter. The program does not provide tutoring services, course work assistance, or emergency consulting.

The Survey Lab provides a wide range of data collection services.  They can carry out a project from start to finish, including questionnaire design and pre-testing, interviewer training and oversight, data collection and cleaning, final data files and reports. Or, you may need only one or two pieces of the total package: review of a draft questionnaire, consulting to help you through your own data collection process, hosting a web survey you have already designed, a formal training session for your interviewers, etc.  The Survey Lab’s services are available on a fee-for-service basis to clients both internal and external to the University of Chicago.