Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS) Research Access
Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS), with participating Virginia state agencies
Vetted researchers, guided by agency sponsors, can run privacy-protected linked analyses of administrative data from 13 Virginia agencies, including Social Services, the Office of Children's Services, Aging and Rehabilitative Services, Juvenile Justice, education and workforce.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)In-kind data access; the page gives no fee information.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.No fixed cycle; each step from access request to publication must be approved by the sponsoring agency.
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Postdoctoral, Doctoral candidate
- Eligibility
- Only vetted researchers who complete the application process and whose research questions are reviewed and validated by participating agencies; a sponsoring agency oversees the project.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- state longitudinal data · linked administrative data · social services data · juvenile justice · virginia
- Apply at
- https://vlds.virginia.gov/Discover
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-09-23. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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