# Data Management Core

> **NIH NIH P01** · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · 2020 · $536,046

## Abstract

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT 
The Data Management Core (DMC) is designed to provide survey research services to the five projects 
represented in the P01, and to maintain uniformly high standards of data collection, design, and analysis. The 
DMC will be responsible for: 
1. Design and management of data collection for surveys; communication with data providers to ensure 
 uniformity of protocols. 
2. Administration of online surveys, including programming of instruments and hosting. 
3. Support for instrument development and documentation across projects and surveys, ensuring that 
 data collected provides useful input to substantive research questions and theoretical and simulation 
studies. 
4. Survey data processing, including data cleaning and checking, the construction of weights and pseudo- 
 weights, and the computation of derived variables. 
5. Maintenance of a secure repository of data and an efficient secure system that allows the investigators 
 and external researchers to access data. 
6. Advice and technical assistance on research design, data collection methods, data analysis, 
 programming for analyses, preparation of analysis plans, papers, and grant applications. 
7. Development, testing, and documentation of new methods for data collection and data analysis. 
The diversity of research designs and the number of data collection sites require a core service to help ensure 
the integrity and synergy of these projects and the quality of the data. The DMC includes experts in survey 
sampling, biostatistics and research methods who have extensive backgrounds in research on health behavior 
and the use of tobacco and its substitutes, as well as data analysts and experts on questionnaire design and 
databases.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9902365
- **Project number:** 5P01CA200512-05
- **Recipient organization:** MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
- **Principal Investigator:** Mary Thompson
- **Activity code:** P01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $536,046
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-09-15

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9902365

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9902365, Data Management Core (5P01CA200512-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9902365. Licensed CC0.

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