1: Data & Results

Harness data to improve agency results.

Other Information:

Harnessing data to improve agency results: Proposals should enable agencies and/or researchers to access and utilize relevant data to answer important questions about program outcomes while fully protecting privacy. For example, by linking data on program participants to administrative data on earnings, college-going, health, or other outcomes, agencies may be able to improve their understanding of program performance and ultimately improve results. Projects should build on the recent Executive Order, "Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information," as well as on the Memorandum "Sharing Data While Protecting Privacy" (M-11-02). We especially encourage proposals that use administrative data to track important outcome measures for federal grant programs, and we are open to proposals that substitute higher quality administrative data for existing grantee reporting requirements.

Stakeholder(s):

• Federal Agencies: Administrative data collected by Federal, State, or local agencies to run programs can be a valuable resource for program improvement and for helping agencies, consumers, and providers make more informed decisions.


• State Agencies


• Local Agencies


• Consumers


• Providers


• Researchers

Objective(s):

1.1: Data Linking & Privacy

1.2: Provider Scorecards

Content