About the Center
The Heritage Foundation created the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) in 1997 to provide the public policy community with state-of-the-art modeling, database products and research support. CDA's team of experts provide databases that support strategic research, confidential reviews of legislation for Members of Congress and the Administration and supporting data and analysis for the media, in addition to peer reviewed analytical models that shed critically important insight on how social and economic systems are affected by policy change. The Center's analysts subscribe to research standards that emphasize transparency and peer-review.
The Heritage Foundation created the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) in 1997 to provide the public policy community with state-of-the-art modeling, database products and research support. CDA's team of experts provide databases that support strategic research, confidential reviews of legislation for Members of Congress and the Administration and supporting data and analysis for the media, in addition to peer reviewed analytical models that shed critically important insight on how social and economic systems are affected by policy change. The Center's analysts subscribe to research standards that emphasize transparency and peer-review.
Analytical tools include:
- Microsimulation model of federal income tax policy
- Tax reform models: flat tax and sales tax models
- Computable general equilibrium models for long-term policy analysis
- Social Security Trust Fund and Rate of Return Models
- The WEFA US Macroeconomic Model
The Center maintains scores of policy databases, including:
- - Census Bureau's Current Population Survey
- IRS's Statistics of Income
- - Labor Department's Consumer Expenditure Survey
- - Education databases, including the NAEP series
- - Datasets for analyzing federal crime policies
- - A wide array of databases dealing with federal entitlement policies from Social Security to Medicare.
Featured Data & Charts
Chart 3: LIBOR Spread Over Effective Federal Funds Rate
Chart 1: Effective Federal Funds Rate and Target Rate
Chart 2: LIBOR and the Effective Federal Funds Rate
Chart 4: Daily Yield Spread, Moody's Aaa and baa Rated Corporate Bonds
The U.S. Economic Outlook
A PowerPoint Presentation of James Sherk on the improved working conditions of American workers today over a generation ago.
This presentation was given October 2, 2008 at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
(PowerPoint)
Media Appearances