Collaborative Research: Income and Assets, Race/Ethnicity, and U.S. Adult Mortality

[906145]罗杰斯该项目调查了美国社会经济地位（SES）在死亡率方面的差异。人们对社会经济的某些方面（如不同的收入来源，以及更重要的是资产积累）如何影响死亡风险知之甚少。这项研究的主要目的是更好地了解收入、资产和特定原因的成人死亡率之间的联系，同时考虑到人口的不同种族/民族组成。这项研究的具体目的是：(1)组装一个完整的前瞻性数据库，使我们能够同时检查一组更全面的收入和资产变量对美国特定原因成人死亡率的影响，(2)测试家庭收入对成人死亡风险的影响是否取决于所获得的收入类型，(3)检查物质资产的所有权是否影响死亡风险，这是SES的一个重要但经常被忽视的维度，(4)检验家庭收入和资产变量是否与种族/民族（非西班牙裔白人、非西班牙裔黑人、墨西哥裔美国人、古巴裔美国人、波多黎各裔美国人和亚裔美国人）相互作用，从而影响死亡风险。根据来自全国健康访谈调查（NHIS）家庭资源补充（FRS）的汇总信息（5年数据）创建了一个数据库，该数据库与来自全国死亡指数（NDI）的死亡信息相匹配。由此产生的包含两项调查汇总信息的数据集是最新可用的国家数据来源，可以对特定原因死亡率的经济差异进行详细分析。

9906145RogersThe project investigates socioeconomic status (SES) differences in mortality in the United States. Little is know about how some dimensions of SES-such as different sources of income and, importantly, the accumulation of assets-influence mortality risks. The principal purpose of this research is to develop an improved understanding of the linkage between income, assets, and cause-specific adult mortality that also takes into account the varied race/ethnic composition of the population. The specific aims of the study are to: (1) assemble an integral, prospective database that will allow us to simultaneously examine the effects of a more comprehensive set of income and asset variables on U.S. cause-specific adult mortality than has heretofore been the case, (2) test whether the effects of family income on adult mortality risk depend upon the type of income received, (3) examine whether the ownership of material assets, an important but often overlooked dimension of SES, influences mortality risks, even above and beyond the influences of family income, and (4) test whether family income and asset variables interact with race/ethnicity-non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic blacks, Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, and Asian Americans-to affect the risk of mortality. A database has been created from pooled information (five years of data) from the Family Resource Supplements (FRS) of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), matched to death information from the National Death Index (NDI). The resultant dataset containing pooled information from the two surveys is the newest available source with national data that allows for detailed analysis of economic differences in cause-specific mortality.