Integrated Samples of Latin American Censuses, 1960-2003

拉丁美洲人口普查综合样本，1960-2003 年

• 批准号: 6897140
• 负责人: ROBERT Edward MCCAA
• 金额: $ 61.13万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-07 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6897140
• 关键词: Caribbean islands; Central America; Internet; South America; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; computer data analysis; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; data collection methodology /evaluation; human data; human population study; information dissemination; information system analysis; social change

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A vast archive of raw census micro data covering Latin America in the period since 1960 survives in machine readable form. The bulk of these data, however, remains inaccessible to researchers. This proposal seeks funding to create harmonized and documented samples of approximately fifty-five Latin American and Caribbean censuses. These micro data and metadata 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 have laid the groundwork for the Latin American data series by funding many of the initial costs. These projects have underwritten the development of data cleaning and sampling procedures, data conversion and dissemination software, and design protocols for data and documentation. Raw micro data files, internal documentation, and redistribution agreements for the censuses of virtually every Latin American country have been obtained. As a result, the costs of developing new public-use samples for Latin America will be less than half as great as for previous projects. The following tasks must be carried out to capitalize on these past investments and make the Latin American data widely available to researchers: clean raw data files; draw new samples from 100% internal census files; impose confidentiality protections; recode variables into existing harmonized coding systems and develop new coding designs optimized for Latin America; allocate missing and inconsistent data values; create a set of consistent constructed variables; develop harmonized English-language documentation; convert all documentation to the Data Documentation Initiative metadata standard; and improve and maintain the web-based data access system. With over 100 million records covering a forty-year period, the new database will allow social scientists to make comparisons across Latin American nations during four decades of dramatic change. The data series will result in a substantial body of new scientific and policy-relevant health-related research on economic development, demographic transition and population aging, international migration, and many other topics.

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。然而，研究人员仍然无法访问这些数据的大部分。该提案寻求资金来创建约 55 项拉丁美洲和加勒比人口普查的统一且记录的样本。这些微观数据和元数据将通过基于网络的数据传播系统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、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，为拉丁美洲开发新的公共使用样本的成本将不到以前项目的一半。必须执行以下任务，以利用这些过去的投资，并使拉丁美洲数据广泛可供研究人员使用：清理原始数据文件；从 100% 内部人口普查文件中抽取新样本；实行保密保护；将变量重新编码到现有的统一编码系统中，并开发针对拉丁美洲优化的新编码设计；分配缺失和不一致的数据值；创建一组一致的构造变量；制定统一的英文文档；将所有文档转换为数据文档计划元数据标准；完善和维护基于网络的数据访问系统。新数据库拥有涵盖四十年时间的超过一亿条记录，社会科学家将能够对拉丁美洲国家在四十年的巨大变化期间进行比较。该数据系列将产生大量新的科学和政策相关的健康相关研究，涉及经济发展、人口转型和人口老龄化、国际移民以及许多其他主题。