Baseline Microdata for Analysis of U.S. Demographic Change

用于分析美国人口变化的基线微观数据

• 批准号: 8470199
• 负责人: Evan W Roberts
• 金额: $ 66.37万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-15 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8470199
• 关键词: Aged, 80 and over; Agreement; American; Behavior; Behavioral Research; Censuses; Cessation of life; Characteristics; Charge; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Code; Contraceptive methods; Data; Data Collection; Data Quality; Databases; Dictionary; Economics; Education; Fertility; Fertility Study; Foundations; Funding; Future; Genetic Transcription; Goals; Health; Hour; Knowledge; Labor Migrations; Laboratories; Laboratory Study; Link; Marketing; Mediation; Medical Research; Metadata; Minnesota; Mission; Modeling; Mortality Decline; Nature; Nuptiality; Occupations; Online Systems; Persons; Policy Analysis; Population; Population Growth; Process; Property; Recording of previous events; Records; Research; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Running; Saints; Sampling; Schools; Series; Slave; Source; Technology; Testing; Time; Training; Translating; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Update; Work; base; computerized data processing; cost; disability; distributed data; experience; human population dynamics; improved; interest; literacy; migration; mortality; population movement; social; theories; tool; volunteer; web site

Project Summary This proposal seeks funding to capitalize on an extraordinary opportunity to create a demographic database comprising all residents of the United States in 1850. This massive new database will fill a critical gap in American population data infrastructure. The 1850 data collection will provide a baseline for studies of fertility and mortality in the United States before the onset of deliberate fertility control and mortality decline. As the earliest national microdata resource, the database will also be the initial observation for studies of migration, labor markets, wealth distribution, disability, education, and a host of other economic and demographic issues. A database incorporating the entire 1850 census will open an array of new research topics and methodological approaches to the study of long-run demographic change, ranging from the study of the oldest-old to multi-level analysis. The complete-count 1850 database is feasible because of a remarkable data-collection effort by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). This initiative involved approximately 50,000 LDS volunteers who invested over one million hours to transcribe 23 million 1850 census records describing the free population, slaves, and deaths in the year prior to the census. The LDS has agreed to provide these remarkable resources free of charge to create and disseminate a database for scientific research and educational purposes. The first goal of the project is to augment and clean raw transcriptions of the 1850 censuses, adding omitted variables and improving data quality. The second goal is to transform these enhanced transcriptions into a data suitable for statistical analysis, and integrate them with the existing data collections disseminated by the Minnesota Population Center. Old census data are not of purely historical interest; they are essential tools for basic social research and policy analysis. Models and descriptions based on historical experience underlie both theories of past change and projections into the future. These data provide a unique laboratory for the study of economic and demographic processes. This kind of empirical foundation is essential for testing social and economic theory. This database is directly relevant to the central mission of the NIH as the steward of medical and behavioral research for the nation: the new data will advance fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of human population dynamics. This basic infrastructure will stimulate health-related research on population growth and movement, fertility, mortality, and nuptiality, as well as the economic and social correlates of demographic behavior. 1

项目摘要 该提案寻求资金来利用一个非凡的机会来创建人口数据库 包括1850年美国的所有居民。这个庞大的新数据库将填补一个关键的空白 美国人口数据基础设施。 1850年的数据收集将为研究提供基准 在故意生育控制和死亡率下降之前，美国的生育和死亡率。 作为最早的国家微数据资源，数据库也将是研究的初步观察结果 移民，劳动力市场，财富分配，残疾，教育以及许多其他经济和 人口统计问题。结合整个1850人口普查的数据库将开设一系列新研究 长期人口变化研究的主题和方法论方法，从研究到 最古老至多层次分析。 由于教会的出色数据收集工作，完整计数1850数据库是可行的 耶稣基督后期圣徒（LDS）该计划涉及约50,000名LDS志愿者 他投资了超过一百万小时来转录2300万1850年的人口普查记录，描述了免费 人口普查前一年的人口，奴隶和死亡。 LDS已同意提供这些 非凡的资源免费创建和传播一个数据库，以进行科学研究和 教育目的。该项目的第一个目标是增强和清洁1850年的原始抄录 人口普查，添加省略的变量并提高数据质量。第二个目标是改变这些 增强转录到适合统计分析的数据，并将其与现有数据集成在一起 明尼苏达州人口中心传播的收藏品。 旧的人口普查数据不是纯粹的历史兴趣；它们是基础社会研究的重要工具， 政策分析。基于历史经验的模型和描述是过去的两种理论 变革和预测未来。这些数据为经济研究提供了独特的实验室 和人群过程。这种经验基础对于测试社会和经济至关重要 理论。该数据库与NIH作为医疗管家的中心任务直接相关 国家的行为研究：新数据将提高有关性质和性质的基本知识 人口动态的行为。这种基本基础设施将刺激与健康有关的研究 人口增长和运动，生育能力，死亡率和婚礼以及经济和社会 人口统计行为的相关性。 1