How do I know whether to apply to the R40 Multiyear grant or the R40 SDAS grant?
• The SDAS grant is a one-year grant for the purpose of analyzing large, national pre-existing data sets. This pre-existing data is typically from a large, nationally representative database (e.g., the National Survey of Children’s Health, the National Survey of Adoptive Parents, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort, etc.), or it might consist of state or local administrative records, which would typically represent some kind of universal participation within a program among a particular population (e.g., state Medicaid records for the population of children within a state who receive Medicaid, etc.). A proposal to the SDAS program would typically identify such a large, pre-existing dataset, and then identify particular research questions that can be answered through analyzing the data, such as, What factors will predict which outcomes among x population? • The Multiyear grant usually involves the collection of original data, whereas the SDAS grant does not. This data ma
