Existing Epidemiological Data Posted on February 29, 2008 Bruce G. Link (bio) lists several available data sets from past and recent psychiatric epidemiology studies.

In the area of psychiatric epidemiology, several large surveys that are representative either of communities in the United States or nationally representative have become public access data. So one of the early ones was the Epidemiological Catchment Area Study done in the early ’80s, and that's five communities around the United States over 15,000 people. That data can be used.

Then about a decade later there was a study called the National Comorbidity Survey done by Ron Kessler at Harvard, and that data is all publicly available. And then there's a replication study that was done a couple years later, again a huge psychiatric epidemiology study, and that's becoming available.

And there now have been a couple of new studies done out of Michigan focusing on blacks, with some whites, but blacks but from U.S. and Caribbean origin, enough in each group to have comparison; there's a psychiatric epidemiology study there. And there's also one on Hispanic Americans and also one on Asian Americans. And those are just becoming available. And there are training programs you can go to to be trained in how to use the data, so there's a lot available.

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