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The US government Census Bureau will open a new data research center as early as the end of the year at Yale University.

It is the official source of statistical data tracking and provides data about US citizens and the country’s economy.

The data research center will offer researchers access to a vast amount of detailed data for scholarly research and will potentially be located within Yale’s grounds and staffed by the Census Bureau.

It will house unpublished and restricted information from the Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics and the Agency for Healthcare Research.

Currently there are 18 data research centers around the country which are administered by the Center for Economic Studies.

Yale’s center will be part of the New York Census Research Data Center, a collection of 12 research facilities from Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.

Yale University economics professor Peter Schott said he has been using data sets since he left grad school.

“I used to have to go down to Washington DC, to get access. Then they put a center in Boston. For the last four or five years, they’ve had one in New York,” Schott said.

The facility will only be open to those with a research proposal that is approved in advance.

Yale’s center is expected to be open as early as the end of the year.