Mission

• Provide empirical survey data sets about the North American Jewish community, from national and local socio-demographic studies as well as other types of contemporary and historical social science research.
   
• Make available substantive and methodological reports on the Jewish community, in particular, reports based on datasets that are part of the archive.
   
• Promote the Data Bank to Jewish Federations, communal organizations, foundations and other groups interested in research concerning Jewish life in North America.
   
• Encourage academicians, students, communal professionals and others to utilize Data Bank holdings and to make their studies a part of the archive.
   
• Sponsor seminars and provide other opportunities for researchers and planners to discuss issues, improve methodologies and exchange ideas based on quantitative research.
   
• Prepare publications and other forms of information dissemination concerning social scientific research about North American Jewry.
   
• Provide technical assistance and advice to Federations, researchers, communal professionals, journalists and others interested in research on the Jewish community.