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NORC at the University Chicago

NORC uses advanced analytical procedures throughout our projects to generate insight from data and provides clients with innovative products to enhance data quality.

NORC conducts research to evaluate different techniques and enhance our statistical modeling, machine learning, and causal inference approaches. For example, we research multilevel modeling to evaluate approaches for analyzing complex relationships. NORC statisticians are at the forefront of research small area modeling techniques, including how best to combine information from different surveys and data sources in estimation and different modeling approaches to create the small area estimates.

Our quantitative social scientists have compared different causal inference approaches for program evaluation to analyze experimental and observational data, such as regression discontinuity designs, modern propensity score matching and weighting methods, advanced difference-in-differences designs, and synthetic control methods. Lastly, our geographers and data scientists research best practices in spatial visualization and cartographical applications to draw geographical insights from data, as well as research on a variety of spatial analytical techniques to obtain fine-grained estimates of economic and social behavior, and to link social survey data with environmental and other types of data.

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Highlighted Projects

NDWA Labs Methodology Review

Methodological consultation for one of the largest surveys of Spanish-speaking domestic workers in the U.S.

Funder:

NDWA Labs

Chicago Health and Activity in Real-Time (CHART)

The first-ever study documenting how activity spaces change as people age

Client:

The National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health

The Truth Initiative Foundation GIS Support

Innovative geospatial analytical work to support groundbreaking tobacco research

Funder:

The Truth Initiative Foundation