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

项目概要 该提案寻求资金，以利用创建人口数据库的绝佳机会 包括 1850 年美国的所有居民。这个庞大的新数据库将填补 美国人口数据基础设施。 1850 年的数据收集将为以下方面的研究提供基线 美国在进行刻意的生育控制之前，生育率和死亡率有所下降。 作为最早的国家微观数据资源，该数据库也将成为研究的初步观察。 移民、劳动力市场、财富分配、残疾、教育以及许多其他经济和社会问题 人口问题。包含整个 1850 年人口普查的数据库将开启一系列新研究 研究长期人口变化的主题和方法方法，范围从研究 从最古老的到多层次的分析。 由于教会付出了巨大的数据收集努力，1850年的完整计数数据库是可行的 耶稣基督后期圣徒（LDS）。该倡议约有 50,000 名 LDS 志愿者参与 他投入了超过 100 万个小时转录了 2300 万份 1850 年人口普查记录，描述了自由 人口普查前一年的人口、奴隶和死亡人数。 LDS 已同意提供这些 免费提供卓越的资源，用于创建和传播科学研究和数据库数据库 教育目的。该项目的首要目标是增强和清理 1850 年的原始转录 人口普查，添加遗漏变量并提高数据质量。第二个目标是改变这些 增强转录为适合统计分析的数据，并将其与现有数据集成 明尼苏达人口中心分发的收集品。 旧的人口普查数据不具有纯粹的历史意义；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两种理论的基础 变化和对未来的预测。这些数据为经济研究提供了一个独特的实验室 和人口统计过程。这种实证基础对于检验社会和经济是必不可少的。 理论。该数据库与 NIH 作为医疗和卫生管理部门的核心使命直接相关。 国家行为研究：新数据将增进有关自然和自然的基础知识 人口动态行为。这一基础设施将刺激与健康相关的研究 人口增长和流动、生育率、死亡率和结婚率，以及经济和社会 人口行为的相关性。 1