Integrated Samples of Latin American Censuses

拉丁美洲人口普查综合样本

基本信息

批准号：
7524541
负责人：
ROBERT Edward MCCAA
金额：
$ 59.01万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2003-07-07 至 2013-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7524541
关键词：
Address Agreement American Archives Area Back Behavioral Research Caribbean natives Caribbean region Censuses Class Code Collaborations Collection Computer software Confidentiality Country Data Databases Demographic Analyses Demographic Transitions Development Documentation Economic Development Economics Electronics Fertility Foundations Funding Geographic Locations Geography Goals Grant Health Individual Information Systems International Migrations Investments Knowledge Latin America Maintenance Medical Metadata Minnesota Mission Mortality Decline Nature Numbers Online Systems Phase Policies Population Procedures Process Protocols documentation Public Health Records Research Research Infrastructure Research Personnel Resources Sampling Schedule Science Scientist Series Social Sciences Software Design Source System Time United States National Institutes of Health Work Workplace aging population base computerized data processing cost cost effective density human population dynamics improved innovation migration residence size social tool

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A vast archive of raw census microdata covering Latin America in the period since 1960 survives in machine- readable form. Over the past five years, this project has made a substantial portion of these data available to researchers for the first time. This application seeks funding to complete work on an integrated database including samples of approximately 100 Latin American and Caribbean censuses. These microdata and accompanying documentation will be made available for scholarly and educational research through a web- based data dissemination system. This project leverages previous federal investments in social science infrastructure. Grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation laid the groundwork for the Latin American data series by funding many of the initial costs. Those projects underwrote the development of data cleaning and sampling procedures, metadata systems, data conversion and dissemination software, and design protocols for data and documentation. Raw microdata files, internal documentation, and redistribution agreements for the censuses of virtually every Latin American country have been obtained. As a result, this project is highly cost- effective. The project has four major goals: 1) expand the database dramatically, doubling the number of countries included and adding the 2010 round of censuses for each country, increasing the total size of the database by some 92 percent; 2) improve variable coding, especially for geographic variables; 3) create and disseminate new data products, including geographic boundary files, aggregate summary files that are consistent across time and space, and restricted access microdata that include complete enumerations with full geographic codes; and, 4) implement new infrastructure to improve data access and user support and reduce the cost of long- term maintenance. With 150 million records of public-access data and over a half-billion records of restricted-access data spanning a fifty-year period, the new database will allow social scientists to make comparisons across Latin American nations during a period of transformative change. It will be a powerful resource for understanding the causes and consequences of the extraordinary social and economic transformations that have reshaped the hemisphere during the past half century, including new scientific and policy-relevant health-related research on economic development, demographic transition and population aging, and international migration. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE The proposed database is directly relevant to the central mission of the National Institutes of Health as the steward of medical and behavioral research for the nation; this infrastructure will advance fundamental knowledge about the nature of human population dynamics and will spark new health-related research. The data series will result in a substantial body of new scientific and policy-relevant health-related research on economic development, demographic transition, population aging, and international migration. By opening access to a vast collection of microdata, the project will allow social science and health researchers to address fundamental questions about the impact of the extraordinary social and economic transformations that have reshaped the hemisphere during the past half century.

描述（由申请人提供）：涵盖 1960 年以来拉丁美洲的大量原始人口普查微观数据档案以机器可读的形式保存下来。在过去的五年里，该项目首次向研究人员提供了这些数据的很大一部分。该申请寻求资金来完成综合数据库的工作，其中包括大约 100 个拉丁美洲和加勒比人口普查的样本。这些微观数据和随附文档将通过基于网络的数据传播系统提供用于学术和教育研究。该项目利用了之前联邦对社会科学基础设施的投资。美国国立卫生研究院和国家科学基金会的资助为拉丁美洲数据系列奠定了基础，为许多初始成本提供了资金。这些项目资助了数据清理和采样程序、元数据系统、数据转换和传播软件以及数据和文档设计协议的开发。几乎每个拉丁美洲国家的人口普查的原始微观数据文件、内部文件和重新分配协议都已获得。因此，该项目具有很高的成本效益。该项目有四个主要目标：1) 大幅扩展数据库，将包含的国家数量增加一倍，并为每个国家添加 2010 年一轮人口普查，使数据库总规模增加约 92%； 2）改进变量编码，特别是地理变量； 3）创建和传播新的数据产品，包括地理边界文件、跨时间和空间一致的聚合摘要文件以及包括具有完整地理代码的完整枚举的受限访问微数据； 4) 实施新的基础设施以改善数据访问和用户支持并降低长期维护成本。新数据库拥有 50 年间 1.5 亿条公共访问数据记录和超过 5 亿条限制访问数据记录，社会科学家将能够在变革时期对拉丁美洲国家进行比较。它将成为了解过去半个世纪重塑西半球的非凡社会和经济变革的原因和后果的强大资源，包括有关经济发展、人口转型和人口老龄化的新的科学和政策相关健康相关研究和国际移民。公共卫生相关性拟议的数据库与美国国立卫生研究院作为国家医学和行为研究管理者的中心使命直接相关；这一基础设施将增进有关人口动态性质的基础知识，并将激发新的健康相关研究。该数据系列将产生大量关于经济发展、人口转型、人口老龄化和国际移民的新的科学和政策相关的健康相关研究。通过开放大量微观数据，该项目将使社会科学和健康研究人员能够解决有关过去半个世纪重塑西半球的非凡社会和经济转型影响的基本问题。