The phrase "a request for data" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are formally asking someone to provide specific information or data.
Example: "I am submitting a request for data regarding the recent sales figures to analyze our performance."
Alternatives: "a data inquiry" or "a data solicitation".
UCLU initially refused a request for data from Scotland Yard's counterterrorism unit on 26 December last year, on the grounds that it was protected.
In December 1996, the Civil Rights Division sent the attorney general's office a request for data on traffic stops and documents on patrol, management and training.
This would prevent fishing expeditions, such as a request for data on everyone who visited a particular Web site on a given day.
Responding to a request for data on corporate migration, the American Management Association polled 63 of its chief executives last month, asking by e-mail whether they intended to relocate their headquarters.
Only 75 of 140 hospital trust responded to a request for data on staffing of accident and emergency departments between Christmas Eve last year and New Year's Day, meaning even higher payments could have been made.
Asked how Yahoo would handle a request for data access from an oppressive regime, she replied: "What we have seen from the Snowden allegations is that whether they're coming through the official channels or not to access the data, they're accessing the data".
We examined information on references including the proportion of advertisements that used references, types of references provided to support marketing claims, quality of references, source of research funding of references and response from pharmaceutical companies to a requests for data on file.
Though we did not seek data directly from Marketing Firms, we note that a request for DTCA data and DTCA sub-categories (such as eDTCA) generally requires a fee-based license and formal data request proposal directly with Marketing Firms.
Such warning signals should prompt a request for raw data, to critically appraise the quality of the data using additional tools [ 8].
The experimental data is not available in the supporting information and the authors did not respond to a request for the data.
Department officials denied a request for current data on the grounds that disclosure could pose a security risk.
