Repository details

Comprehensive Epidemiological Data Resource

Name of repository
Comprehensive Epidemiological Data Resource
Additional name(s)
  • CEDR
  • CEDR Epidemiologic Databases
Repository URL
https://oriseapps.orau.gov/cedr/
Subject(s)
Description
The Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) is the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) electronic database comprised of health studies of DOE contract workers and environmental studies of areas surrounding DOE facilities. DOE recognizes the benefits of data sharing and supports the public's right to know about worker and community health risks. CEDR provides independent researchers and educators with access to de-identified data collected since the Department's early production years. Current CEDR holdings include more than 76 studies of over 1 million workers at 31 DOE sites. Access to these data is at no cost to the user.
Contact(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository size
Analytic Data File Sets = 253 data files (66 studies), Working Data File Sets = 159 data files
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://oriseapps.orau.gov/cedr/the-cedr-program.aspx
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (2)

Institution
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
Additional name(s)
  • ORISE
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
US Department of Energy
Additional name(s)
  • DOE
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (1)

Policy Name
Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Implementation Project

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data licenses (1)

DataLicense
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • other
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Versioning
no
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard
Repository-Developed Metadata Schemas

Remarks

Remarks
Description: The Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) is the Department of Energy's (DOE) electronic database comprised of health studies of DOE contract workers and environmental studies of areas surrounding DOE facilities. DOE recognizes the benefits of data sharing and supports the public's right to know about worker and community health risks. CEDR provides independent researchers and the public with access to de-identified data collected since the Department's early production years. Current CEDR holdings include more than 80 studies of over 1 million workers at 31 DOE sites. Access to these data is at no cost to the user. Most of CEDR's holdings are derived from epidemiologic studies of DOE workers at many large nuclear weapons plants, such as Hanford, Los Alamos, the Oak Ridge reservation, Savannah River Site, and Rocky Flats. These studies primarily use death certificate information to identify excess deaths and patterns of disease among workers to determine what factors contribute to the risk of developing cancer and other illnesses. In addition, many of these studies have radiation exposure measurements on individual workers. CEDR is supported by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Now a mature system in routine operational use, CEDR's modern internet-based systems respond to thousands of requests to its web server daily. With about 1,500 Internet sites pointing to CEDR's web site, CEDR is a national user facility, with a large audience for data that are not available elsewhere.
Entry date
2012-08-26
Last update
2023-09-25
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re3data.org: Comprehensive Epidemiological Data Resource; editing status 2023-09-25; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. https://doi.org/10.17616/R33013 last accessed: 2025-06-20