Research Programming Services

The Research Programming Services is composed of programmers who are responsible for the data-related activities of research projects, including data cleaning, data management, data dissemination, and statistical analyses. CPC has been involved in many primary data collection efforts, and the unit provides several survey-related activities among its services. Among these are questionnaire design, codebook and other documentation preparation, and domestic and overseas travel for training and supervising of data preparation. The research programmers also provide user service for the trainees and research assistants on their projects, and they act as resources for specific software packages in which they are experienced.

Phil Bardsley is responsible for programming support for trainees and projects and is the first stop for those having SAS, Stata, SPSS, data management, and other analysis needs.