Publicly Available Data
- Indiana Data Hub - With more than 190 secure and de-identified datasets, the Data Hub is your home for actionable data covering subject matter areas within state government.
- MPH Projects Page - Our projects are designed to provide analytical solutions that address complex management and policy questions to improve outcomes for Hoosiers. We empower our partners to leverage data in innovative ways, facilitating data-driven decision making and data-informed policy making.
- Hoosiers by the Numbers - Your premier source for labor market information for Indiana.
- Additional datasets through Indiana Agency websites.
Access one the State's publicly available data websites:
MPH Data Request Process
The Indiana Management Performance Hub (MPH) fulfills data requests for community organizations, universities and researchers, local units of government, and Hoosiers requiring multi-agency linked data and/or the linkage of contributed data with state administrative data.
To request data meeting the above criteria, please visit the Data Request Portal.
- 1. Receive request
MPH receives a data request via the MPH Data Request Portal.
- 2. Analyze use case viability and possible fulfillment
MPH utilizes the intake responses to determine if the use case is viable and has potential to be fulfilled by the agency, barring necessary approvals and agreements. If yes, MPH engages the requester to begin gathering additional requirements. If no, MPH will direct the requester to the appropriate process or location.
- 3. Complete internal review and confirm access
Following requirements gathering, MPH initiates an internal review to confirm necessary regulatory considerations (i.e. HIPAA, FERPA, CJIS, etc.); further vet feasibility; conduct a pre-emptive legal review, as necessary; and confirm access to the requested data.
- 4. Coordinate regulatory approvals
If it is determined that additional regulatory considerations are applicable, the necessary information will be routed to the agency responsible for providing approval.
- 5. Develop project charter and get agency approvals
Barring or following the completion of any regulatory considerations, MPH develops a project charter outlining the project details and the specific data elements requested. The charter is circulated for review and approval by the agencies with data involved. The charter is an internal document that is not provided to the requester, rather it is used for internal approvals from partner agencies as the data owners.
- 6. Execute Contributing DSA and coordinate data receipt, if needed
If the requester is contributing data, MPH will execute a Contributing DSA with the requester to receive that data. Once executed, MPH will coordinate the receipt of the contributed data.
- 7. Develop data
Once the charter is signed by all parties and the Contributing DSA (if necessary) is executed, data development begins internally. If data are being contributed, data ingestion will occur at this time as well.
- 8. Data product review and approval
Once the data product is developed, it is reviewed by the MPH Data Review Team (DRT). DRT may request changes to reduce granularity and/or risk of re-identification. Once DRT has approved the data product, if aggregated and allowable for public-release, the data is provided directly via SFTP. If row-level, a Requester DSA is executed between MPH and the Requestor.
- 9. Requester DSA with MPH is executed for data access
Once the Requester DSA is executed, the data is placed in the Enhanced Research Environment (ERE) for analysis, unless an alternative location has been vetted and approved by MPH legal and the data-owning agencies. Account provisioning will begin for individuals named within the DSA for data-access and analysis within the ERE.
- 10. Data added to ERE for analysis
A project container will be created in the ERE and the dataset(s) will be added. Access to the environment will be confirmed. The project is closed out and the requester is directed to reach back out when they have analysis ready for export, as they do not have the ability to remove anything from the ERE. When MPH is notified that the requester is ready to export, the MPH DRT reviews the requested files and approves release or requests additional modifications. Exports must be aligned with MPH Export Guidelines.