The Past Context: Supplementing Survey Data on Aging

过去的背景：补充老龄化调查数据

• 批准号: 7100388
• 负责人: Rebeca Wong
• 金额: $ 6.53万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7100388
• 关键词: Mexico; aging; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; data collection methodology /evaluation; early experience; health behavior; health surveys; human data; human middle age (35-64); human old age (65+); human population study; lifestyle; mental health information system; prognosis; psychometrics; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for two years to enhance recently gathered survey data on aging in Mexico using secondary data. The goal of this pilot project is to explore the idea of supplementing household data gathered through personal interviews in late life, with secondary data that corresponds to the earlier context, capturing details of the conditions that prevailed at the time individuals made particular decisions throughout their life cycle. The aim is to evaluate the hypothesis that indicators about the earlier- life context can provide further details for modeling late-life well being, beyond what age cohort indicators can provide. The long-term objective is to prepare a research proposal that will use the constructed data in more detail. The goal of that future project will be to examine the effect on late-life well being of early-life labor force and fertility decisions of women, and human capital investment in children's education. To accomplish the goal of this pilot project, we use household data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and link the information on individuals aged 50 or more in 2001 with historical secondary data on socioeconomic and demographic conditions in Mexico. Specific aims of this project are: a) to propose and construct indicators that capture the conditions of the context faced by individuals earlier in life; and b) to test the usefulness of these indicators in preliminary models of one late-life well being indicator, namely wealth. The products from this pilot project will be: 1) two databases containing the series of historical indicators constructed, which will be made available to the research community. One will be linked to the individual records of the MHAS data, and one will contain the aggregate historical data in a flexible format. 2) A paper describing the MHAS cohorts and their respective historical context; and 3) a paper summarizing our conclusions on whether the series of indicators can contribute significant information based on preliminary, basic models of late-life wealth.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请请求两年的支持，以利用二手数据增强最近收集的墨西哥老龄化调查数据。该试点项目的目标是探索用与早期背景相对应的辅助数据来补充通过晚年个人访谈收集的家庭数据的想法，捕捉个人一生中做出特定决定时普遍存在的条件的详细信息循环。目的是评估以下假设：有关早年生活背景的指标可以为建模晚年福祉提供进一步的细节，超出了年龄组指标所能提供的范围。长期目标是准备一份研究计划，更详细地使用构建的数据。该未来项目的目标将是研究早期劳动力和妇女生育决策以及儿童教育方面的人力资本投资对晚年福祉的影响。为了实现该试点项目的目标，我们使用墨西哥健康与老龄化研究 (MHAS) 的家庭数据，并将 2001 年 50 岁或以上个人的信息与墨西哥社会经济和人口状况的历史二手数据联系起来。该项目的具体目标是： a) 提出并构建反映个人早年面临的环境条件的指标； b) 测试这些指标在一项晚年福祉指标（即财富）的初步模型中的有用性。该试点项目的产品将是：1）两个包含所构建的一系列历史指标的数据库，这些数据库将提供给研究界。一种将链接到 MHAS 数据的各个记录，另一种将以灵活的格式包含汇总历史数据。 2) 一篇描述 MHAS 群体及其各自历史背景的论文； 3）一篇论文总结了我们根据晚年财富的初步基本模型得出的关于这一系列指标是否可以提供重要信息的结论。