Establishment of a Research Archive on Disability

The purpose is to facilitate access to the best data on the distribution and correlates of pathophysiology, impairment, functional, and societal limitation and disability within the U. S. population. During this Phase I feasibility study, the we will develop a Research Archive on Disability In the U. S. (RADIUS). The archive will be comprised of three kinds of machine-readable materials: (1) exemplary data sets; (2) measurement instruments; and (3) software to retrieve those portions of the data sets and measurement instruments relevant to a problem at hand. The archive when completed should be easy to use, yet extremely powerful. Its objective will be to serve the widest possible user constituency by offering all its products in a variety of machine-readable media (mainframe tapes, workstation tape cartridges, microcomputer floppy diskettes, CD-ROM) for a variety of mainframes, workstations, and microcomputers.