A partnership between UCI's School of Social Sciences and the U.S. Census Bureau.

The University of California, Irvine branch of the California Federal Statistical Research Data Center (RDC) is a partnership between UCI's School of Social Sciences and the U.S. Census Bureau. The on-campus site allows approved UCI and other researchers access to confidential Census data and other federal statistics that are central to high-quality research in economics, sociology, health services, public health, transportation, law, business, and more.

General inquiries can be directed to rdc@uci.edu. If you are interested in scheduling a presentation for your class, research group, center, or school about the RDC and the research opportunities it affords, please contact Matthew Freedman.

For a primer on the RDC, please see this short informational video.

Recent News and Activities

• The 2025 FSRDC Annual Conference will be held at Cornell University on September 26, 2025. More information about the conference is available here.
• The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) hosted its 2025 conference at the University of Ottawa May 13-14. More information about the conference can be found here.
• The Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology hosted its 2024 FCSM Research and Policy Conference October 22-24, 2024 in Hyattsville, Maryland. More information is available here.
• The RDC system has made available metadata about all active and completed RDC projects using Census Bureau data. These metadata are available here.