Integrated Samples of Latin American Censuses

拉丁美洲人口普查综合样本

• 批准号: 8122222
• 负责人: ROBERT Edward MCCAA
• 金额: $ 62.4万
• 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 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8122222
• 关键词: Address; Agreement; American; Archives; Area; Back; Behavioral Research; Caribbean region; Censuses; Code; Collaborations; Collection; Computer software; Confidentiality; Country; Data; Databases; Demographic Analyses; Demographic Transitions; Development; Documentation; Economic Development; Economics; Electronics; Fertility; Foundations; Funding; Geographic Locations; Geography; Goals; Grant; Health; Individual; Information Systems; International Migrations; Investments; Knowledge; Latin America; Maintenance; Medical Research; Metadata; Minnesota; Mission; Mortality Decline; Nature; Online Systems; Phase; Policies; Population; Procedures; Process; Protocols documentation; Records; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Resources; Sampling; Schedule; Science; Scientist; Series; Social Sciences; Software Design; Source; System; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; aging population; base; computerized data processing; cost; cost effective; density; human population dynamics; improved; innovation; migration; residence; social; social science research; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A vast archive of raw census microdata covering Latin America in the period since 1960 survives in machine- readable form. Over the past five years, this project has made a substantial portion of these data available to researchers for the first time. This application seeks funding to complete work on an integrated database including samples of approximately 100 Latin American and Caribbean censuses. These microdata and accompanying documentation 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 laid the groundwork for the Latin American data series by funding many of the initial costs. Those projects underwrote the development of data cleaning and sampling procedures, metadata systems, data conversion and dissemination software, and design protocols for data and documentation. Raw microdata files, internal documentation, and redistribution agreements for the censuses of virtually every Latin American country have been obtained. As a result, this project is highly cost- effective. The project has four major goals: 1) expand the database dramatically, doubling the number of countries included and adding the 2010 round of censuses for each country, increasing the total size of the database by some 92 percent; 2) improve variable coding, especially for geographic variables; 3) create and disseminate new data products, including geographic boundary files, aggregate summary files that are consistent across time and space, and restricted access microdata that include complete enumerations with full geographic codes; and, 4) implement new infrastructure to improve data access and user support and reduce the cost of long- term maintenance. With 150 million records of public-access data and over a half-billion records of restricted-access data spanning a fifty-year period, the new database will allow social scientists to make comparisons across Latin American nations during a period of transformative change. It will be a powerful resource for understanding the causes and consequences of the extraordinary social and economic transformations that have reshaped the hemisphere during the past half century, including new scientific and policy-relevant health-related research on economic development, demographic transition and population aging, and international migration. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE The proposed database is directly relevant to the central mission of the National Institutes of Health as the steward of medical and behavioral research for the nation; this infrastructure will advance fundamental knowledge about the nature of human population dynamics and will spark new health-related research. The data series will result in a substantial body of new scientific and policy-relevant health-related research on economic development, demographic transition, population aging, and international migration. By opening access to a vast collection of microdata, the project will allow social science and health researchers to address fundamental questions about the impact of the extraordinary social and economic transformations that have reshaped the hemisphere during the past half century.

描述（由申请人提供）：自1960年以来，涵盖拉丁美洲的庞大的原始人口普查档案库以机器可读形式幸存。在过去的五年中，该项目首次向研究人员提供了这些数据中的很大一部分。该应用程序寻求资金来完成对集成数据库的工作，包括大约100个拉丁美洲和加勒比海人口普查的样本。这些微数据和随附的文档将通过基于网络的数据传播系统提供用于学术和教育研究。该项目利用了以前的联邦社会科学基础设施投资。国立卫生研究院和国家科学基金会的赠款通过资助许多初始费用来为拉丁美洲数据系列奠定了基础。这些项目承保了数据清洁和采样程序，元数据系统，数据转换和传播软件以及数据和文档的设计协议的开发。已经获得了几乎每个拉丁美洲国家的普查的原始微型数据，内部文档和重新分配协议。结果，该项目具有很高的成本效益。该项目有四个主要目标：1）大幅度扩展数据库，使包括的国家数量增加一倍，并为每个国家 /地区增加2010年的人口普查，使数据库的总规模增加约92％； 2）改进可变编码，特别是对于地理变量； 3）创建和传播新的数据产品，包括地理边界文件，汇总跨时间和空间一致的摘要文件，以及限制访问microdata，其中包括具有完整地理代码的完整枚举； 4）实施新的基础架构，以改善数据访问和用户支持并降低长期维护的成本。凭借1.5亿张公共访问数据记录，以及超过50年的限制数据记录，涵盖了五十年的时期，新数据库将使社会科学家在变革的变化期间可以在拉丁美洲国家进行比较。这将是理解在过去半个世纪中重塑半球的非凡社会和经济转型的原因和后果的强大资源，其中包括有关经济发展，人口转变和人口衰老以及国际移民的新科学和政策与健康相关的研究。公共卫生相关性该提议的数据库与美国国立卫生研究院的核心任务直接相关，作为国家医学和行为研究的管家；这种基础设施将促进有关人类动态性质的基本知识，并引发与健康相关的新研究。该数据系列将导致有关与健康相关的新科学和政策与经济发展，人口过渡，人口衰老和国际移民的大量研究。通过开放访问大量的微型数据，该项目将使社会科学和健康研究人员能够解决有关在过去半个世纪重塑半球的非凡社会和经济转型的影响的基本问题。