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: 7845053
• 负责人: Evan W Roberts
• 金额: $ 71.75万
• 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 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7845053
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application 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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The baseline microdata infrastructure 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.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求资金来利用非凡的机会来创建一个人口数据库，其中包括1850年美国所有居民。这个庞大的新数据库将填补美国人口数据基础架构的关键空白。 1850年的数据收集将在蓄意生育能力控制和死亡率下降之前为美国的生育和死亡率研究提供基准。作为最早的国家微型ATA资源，数据库也将是对移民，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的研究的初步观察。结合整个1850年人口普查的数据库将开放一系列新的研究主题和方法论方法，以研究长期人口统计学变化，从对最古老的老年人到多级分析的研究。由于耶稣基督后期圣徒教会（LDS）的杰出数据收集努力，该数据库的完整计数1850数据库是可行的。该计划涉及大约50,000名LDS志愿者，他们投资了超过100万小时来转录2300万次1850年的人口普查记录，描述了人口普查前一年的自由人口，奴隶和死亡。 LDS已同意免费提供这些非凡的资源，以创建和传播数据库，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次人口普查的原始抄录，并增加省略的变量并提高数据质量。第二个目标是将这些增强的转录转换为适合统计分析的数据，并将它们与明尼苏达州人口中心传播的现有数据收集集成在一起。旧的人口普查数据不是纯粹的历史兴趣；它们是基本社会研究和政策分析的重要工具。基于历史经验的模型和描述是过去变化的理论和未来的预测理论。这些数据为研究经济和人口过程提供了独特的实验室。这种经验基础对于测试社会和经济理论至关重要。该数据库与NIH作为国家医学和行为研究的管家直接相关：新数据将促进有关人口动态的性质和行为的基本知识。这种基本基础设施将刺激与人口增长和运动，生育能力，死亡率和婚礼以及人口统计行为的经济和社会相关性的研究。公共卫生相关性：基线微型ATA基础设施与NIH作为国家医学和行为研究的管家直接相关：新数据将促进有关人口动态的性质和行为的基本知识。这种基本的基础设施将激发与人口增长和运动，生育能力，死亡率和婚礼以及人口行为的经济和社会相关性有关的与健康相关的研究。