Enhancing Project Talent: Early Life Impacts on Later Life Outcomes

增强项目才能：早期生活对以后生活结果的影响

• 批准号: 8323279
• 负责人: Susan J Lapham
• 金额: $ 13.12万
• 依托单位: AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8323279
• 关键词: Address; Age; Aging; Alzheimer' s Disease; American; Americas; Archives; Bibliography; Biological Preservation; Cessation of life; Characteristics; Cognitive; Cognitive Science; Collaborations; Collection; Complex; Consent; Data; Data Collection; Data Files; Data Set; Demographic Factors; Demography; Development; Documentation; Economics; Education; Elderly; Epidemiology; Extensible Markup Language; Family; Funding; Future; Genetic; Goals; Government Agencies; Health; Indium; Internet; Knowledge; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Life Experience; Light; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Measures; Military Personnel; Modeling; Online Systems; Outcome; Participant; Personality; Play; Process; Professional counselor; Psyche structure; Publications; Questionnaires; Records; Request for Applications; Research; Research Design; Research Infrastructure; Research Institute; Research Personnel; Resources; Respondent; Retirement; Sampling; Series; Services; Social Psychology; Sociology; Source; Staging; Students; Surveys; System; Systems Analysis; Talents; Testing; Time; Update; Validation; Woman; Work; aging population; base; cognitive function; cohort; computerized; data management; data structure; design; early experience; experience; file format; follow-up; health care service utilization; health disparity; high school; indexing; interest; labor force participation; literacy; longitudinal design; meetings; men; mortality; physical conditioning; social; socioeconomics; teacher; tool; trait; user-friendly; young man; young woman

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 1960, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) initiated Project TALENT by collecting extensive data, including demographic information, cognitive measures, dispositional traits, and interests, from 440,000 high school students, their teachers, and their guidance counselors. In addition, follow-up surveys 1, 5, and 11 years after high school graduation added information about experiences such as postsecondary education, labor force participation, family formation, and military service. With its large, nationally representative sample of a cohort now in their sixties, longitudinal design, and extensive information on early life experiences, Project TALENT is uniquely suited to be the basis for a major longitudinal study of aging that can address research questions such as what characteristics predict health outcomes such as Alzheimer's disease and health disparities. AIR is currently designing this study, with plans for a 50-year follow-up in 2014. Designing the study requires increased analysis of the existing data by an expanded group of researchers. In its current format, with 843,000 records and 10,000 variables essentially unchanged since the 1970's, the data are difficult and time-consuming to access, and thus their use is often limited. We propose to modernize the data and documentation, bringing them up to the current standards of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). Doing so will restore the complete data set and allow for data to be easily accessed and input into any analysis format; enable documentation to be searchable at the variable level across data collections and data years; and fully integrate the data into the NACDA collection. To accomplish this task, staff from AIR and NACDA will collaborate, pairing AIR's in-depth knowledge of Project TALENT with NACDA's state-of-the-art archival expertise. Our plans include integration of Project TALENT into the ICPSR's automated HERMES system, which will allow for regular data updates to be efficiently implemented and for the standard content and format for documentation. Additionally, we will restructure the Project TALENT data files from a series of multiple files into a unified collection supported by an interface that allows users to make informed decisions about data extraction. Project TALENT data continue to be highly relevant today as a research source and analyses of existing data will provide critical information for planning the new follow-up; enhancing the data and documentation will greatly increase their availability to researchers, and will lay the groundwork for planned future releases of Project TALENT, including the addition of linked administrative data. The sheer breadth of Project TALENT insures that it will continue to offer new opportunities for original research on aging, most notably the opportunity to investigate questions about the relationship among physical health, cognitive functioning, socioeconomic, and demographic factors at different stages of life.

描述（由申请人提供）：1960年，美国440,000名高中生，他们的老师和他们的指导顾问（包括人口统计信息，认知措施，处置性状和兴趣），包括人口统计信息，认知措施，倾向性状和兴趣，在1960年开始了项目人才。此外，高中毕业后的后续调查1、5和11年增加了有关经验，劳动力参与，家庭形成和兵役等经验的信息。凭借其六十年代的纵向设计和有关早期生活经验的广泛信息，现在具有大量的全国代表性样本，项目人才非常适合于对衰老进行重大纵向研究的基础，这些研究可以解决诸如哪些特征的研究问题，例如哪些特征可以预测诸如阿尔茨海默氏病和健康的疾病和健康双向的健康状况。 Air目前正在设计这项研究，并计划在2014年进行50年的随访计划。设计该研究需要扩大的研究人员对现有数据的分析进行更多的分析。自1970年代以来，以目前的格式具有843,000条记录和10,000个变量，基本上没有变化，数据很困难且耗时，因此使用通常有限。我们建议将数据和文档现代化，使它们达到政治和社会研究国际联盟（ICPSR）的当前标准（ICPSR）和国家衰老计算机数据档案（NACDA）。这样做将恢复完整的数据集，并允许轻松访问数据并输入任何分析格式；使文档可以在数据收集和数据年的变量级别上进行搜索；并将数据完全集成到NACDA集合中。为了完成这项任务，Air和NACDA的员工将合作，将AIR对项目人才的深入了解与NACDA的最先进的档案专业知识相结合。我们的计划包括将项目人才集成到ICPSR自动化的HERMES系统中，这将允许有效地实施定期的数据更新以及用于文档的标准内容和格式。此外，我们将将项目人才数据文件从一系列多个文件重组为一个由接口支持的统一集合，该界面允许用户做出有关数据提取的明智决定。作为研究来源，项目人才数据仍然具有很高的意义，现有数据的分析将为计划新后续行动提供关键信息；增强数据和文档将大大增加对研究人员的可用性，并将为计划的未来项目人才奠定基础，包括增加链接的行政数据。项目人才的巨大广度确保它将继续为衰老的原始研究提供新的机会，最值得注意的是，有机会在生活的不同阶段调查身体健康，认知功能，社会经济和人口统计学因素之间的关系。