IRP Data Security Training

Access levels to confidential research data at IRP

Personnel at IRP whose work may authorize them access to IRP sensitive and restricted data belong to one of the following groups:

Data Scientists

IRP Data Scientists have the highest level of access to sensitive and restricted data at IRP; they provide research data (like the Wisconsin Administrative Data Core, WADC) to researchers for which the most sensitive personal identifiers have been removed or masked

Researchers

Research teams analyze the confidential data and produce results in which the data are aggregated; they generally do not require knowledge of individual identifiers.

CRD Data Collectors

Data Collectors collect and update case information from public records maintained at county courthouses to create the new cohorts of the Court Record Data Collection at IRP.

SSCC maintains the computing resources for IRP

IRP is a member of the Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC), which maintains the servers and computer networks used by University departments and Institutes located in the William Sewell Social Science Building.

All confidential data received by IRP is stored on an SSCC-operated secure server, SILO.

Although IRP takes great care to ensure that electronic security is current and effective, IRP and the Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) understand that it is ultimately up to the user to maintain data confidentiality.

Continue to SECTION I of the training