BFI recognizes the importance of providing researchers with access to the tools needed to perform ground-breaking research while also translating new insights into real-world impact though outreach and engagement. Through our data acquisition grant program, several data sets are now available to interested UChicago faculty and graduate students. Questions regarding data resources can be directed to bfi-datagrants@uchicago.edu
In partnership with Anthropic, BFI is pleased to offer BFI-affiliated researchers access to Claude.AI, a cutting-edge generative AI platform designed to support academic research, data summarization, ideation, and drafting. Claude offers natural language processing capabilities similar to ChatGPT, with a particular emphasis on constrained reasoning and interpretability.
Interested faculty and graduate researchers should submit their interest via the following form.
Access bulk tax, deed, foreclosure, involuntary lien, HOA Building Permits and MLS data:
Customize record layout from hundreds of fields
Select desired geographic coverage within the U.S. by state, region, zip code or county
Access the nation’s largest repository of real estate data and document images
Contact bfi-datagrants@uchicago.edu in BFI to request access to CoreLogic Tax and Deed History Data. Please title subject line of email with data name you are requesting. Staff will provide the CoreLogic EULA (End User License Agreement) and BFI Terms of Use documents to sign and return, after which staff will provide steps for accessing the data on RCC (Research Computing Center).
Please acknowledge the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago and Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance on all written work for the usage of this data.
Dewey Academic Research Data, often referred to as Dewey Data, is a research platform that provides access to third-party datasets across a variety of data categories including web traffic, wage data, geographic behavior, construction permits, healthcare, workforce, consumer behavior, and transportation. Dewey’s research data partners directory, include:
SafeGraph: fresh and accurate points of interest, building footprint, and consumer behavior data.
Similarweb: website visit & organic traffic keyword data for major worldwide brands.
WageScape: labor market intelligence data…, including historical wage data by job title and location.
Many additional data sets available via the Dewey research data partners directory
University of Chicago faculty, students, and researchers are eligible for access and may use the data included in their subscription or purchase additional datasets at an academic discount. Access to Dewey requires users to have an individual account.
Faculty, students and researchers from University of Chicago may request an account by following steps below:
Enter your @uchicago.edu or @chicagobooth.edu email into the “Get started” box on the Dewey platform.
Upon submission, your account will be created and you will have access.
Once logged in you may need to refresh the page or wait a few minutes to gain full access.
Please note: Dewey provides data for academic and non-commercial research purposes only. Users may not use data downloaded from Dewey for any non-academic or commercial endeavor.
Infogroup compiles the residential historic files, by aggregating multiple verified sources. They provide residence data for US households for the years 2006-2017, with national coverage. Variables include: individuals’ first, last names, and middle initials, allowing for linkages with external data, unique family identifiers to link yearly files, address and geocodes, primary home value, residents demographics including indicators for children residing in the households, rental indicators, and 2017 household income and ethnicity.
Qty of Record: 1,711,141,931 historical residential records
Product: US Historical Residential Dataset
Geography: US
Selection Criteria: 2006-2017 Historical Residential File
Permitted Use of Licensed Data: academic, non-commercial research
Contact bfi-datagrants@uchicago.edu in BFI to request access to Infogroup - US Historical Residential Data. Please title subject line of email with data name you are requesting. Staff will provide the EULA (End User License Agreement) and BFI Terms of Use documents to sign and return, after which staff will provide steps for accessing the data on RCC (Research Computing Center).
Please acknowledge the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago on all written work for the usage of this data.
Infutor’s Total Consumer History consists of nearly 400 million consumer records, linked with almost 1 billion current and historical addresses and name changes. Spanning more than 30 years, the file is built from hundreds of verifiable public and proprietary sources.
Use Cases:
Inbound: Identify / Verify / Score data
Optimize CRM/CDP: Create Value Added Solutions and/or Custom Models
Optimize CRM/CDP: Enhanced Intelligence for Analytics and/or Segmentation
Contact bfi-datagrants@uchicago.edu in BFI to request user access to the Infutor Data. Please title subject line of email with data name you are requesting. Staff will share the terms of use document for Infutor data for your review and concurrence. Please note, the Infutor data is identifiable data, so an approved IRB protocol is required prior to receiving approval and next steps for access to the data on the Secure Data Enclave (SDE) at RCC.
Please acknowledge the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago on all written work for the usage of this data.
L2 collects and updates registered voter data from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. regularly. This data gets updated at least every six months, and contact details like phone numbers are refreshed approximately every 30 to 60 days.
Those data are standardized and enhanced with propriety commercial data and modeling codes to form separate enhanced state files (the “L2 Voter Files”) containing all or most of the data fields currently marketed through L2’s online data tool known as L2 DataMapping for Voters.
The data can be used exclusively by faculty and PhD students of the University of Chicago. Users will be granted the data once they sign the End-User License Agreement (EULA) by accepting all the terms and conditions.
The data is located via UChicago's Midway Research Computing Center (RCC) within folders labeled BFI. Contact BFI at bfi-datagrants@uchicago.edu for any assistance.
Please acknowledge the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago on all written work for the usage of this data.
Medical claims data is at the core of much of health economics research. BFI's Health Economics Initiative is building data assets to help lower the barriers to research in this area for faculty and students across the university.
In 2018, we made our first purchase of Medicare claims data. The data covers 2010-2019 and includes the MedPAR, outpatient, home health, and master beneficiary summary files for 100% of Medicare beneficiaries. We plan to add additional files and years to increase the value of this data asset.
The data is hosted in a secure environment provided by the Center for Research Informatics (CRI) together with additional resources and procedures developed by the MWG in collaboration with the Research Computing Group (RCG) within the Department of Public Health Sciences.
Additional Health Data Resources for UChicago Faculty
The Data Lab provides resources for UChicago researchers to access and utilize large-scale administrative datasets to inform and improve U.S. health policy. In particular, it makes secure access to Medicare and Medicaid claims data possible. Click here for more information.
Please contact BFI at bfi-datagrants@uchicago.edu for more information.
Presently, GSO is an organization directly under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) realizing the function as an adviser for the MPI Minister in state management for statistics; conducting statistical activities and providing social and economic information to organizations and individuals domestically and internationally in accordance with the law.
Through two third of century establishing and developing, the statistics of Vietnam has been asserting its important role in providing statistical information to leaders of the Party and Government, and authorities of all levels to assess, forecast, define strategies and policies, make social and economic development plans, and to organizations and individuals to meet their information needs. Information published and provided by GSO is official and legal statistics, which is trusted and used by administrative levels, line-ministries, organizations and individuals in and out the country.
Statistical Data:
Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS): 2014
Establishment Census: 2017, 2012, 2007, 2002
Enterprise Survey: 2000, 2005, 2011, 2016
Rural, Agricultural, and Fishery Census: 2016, 2011, 2006, 2001
Permitted Use of Licensed Data: academic, non-commercial research
Contact bfi-datagrants@uchicago.edu in BFI to request access to Vietnamese General Statistics Office (GSO) Data. Please title subject line of email with data name you are requesting. Staff will provide the EULA (End User License Agreement) and BFI Terms of Use documents to sign and return, after which staff will provide steps for accessing the data on RCC (Research Computing Center).
Please acknowledge the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago on all written work for the usage of this data.
Consumption Pyramids fills a serious gap in the official Indian statistical system. It delivers fast-frequency data on consumption expenditure of households.
Consumption Pyramids delivers a monthly series of household consumption expenditure and snapshots of weekly expenses on select fast-moving expense items. With a large sample of households this becomes a potent resource to understand the changes in household consumption expenditure and the changes in the structure of these expenses.
This is in sharp contrast to the official surveys on household consumption expenditure, that are too few and far in between. They also have the tendency of being rejected by the government and remaining unavailable to researchers and other users alike. The last survey for which data is available is 2011-12. In contrast, Consumption Pyramids delivers monthly data regularly with a lag of just four months.
Nevertheless, there are important differences between the surveys conducted by the National Sample Survey Organization and by Consumption Pyramids. The latter fills in a gap but, it is no replacement to the NSSO survey.
The Consumer Pyramids Household Survey focuses on two questions. First, how much do households spend, in rupee terms, on consumption expenditure and second, what is the broad distribution of this spend.
Permitted Use of Licensed Data: academic, non-commercial, limited right to access the Service, only as authorized on the usage agreement.
Contact bfi-datagrants@uchicago.edu in BFI to request access to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd. (CMIE) Data. Please title subject line of email with data name you are requesting. Staff will provide the BFI Data Acceptance Form to sign and return, when received staff will add you as a user to the CMIE Data Platform available through the BFI subscription.
Please acknowledge the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago on all written work for the usage of this data.
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