SGER: DHS and NSF Collaboration: Creating an Archive of Preparedness and Homeland Security Survey Data

SES-0651287 Gary LaFree马里兰州大学帕克分校严重后果事件（包括恐怖袭击、自然灾害和大规模事故）的重大和持久影响要求我们集中精力提高对恐怖主义的理解、准备和恢复。在这些领域，国内和国际上都存在着不同的研究历史。然而，这些信息尚未汇编成可供查阅和搜索的数据档案，以供研究活动使用。汇编这些领域的悠久历史和最新研究可能会表明研究相互重叠、矛盾或支持。 例如，传播学、心理学、社会学、应急反应、政治学、土木工程、医学和其他领域的研究可能已经研究了类似的问题，但没有将这些领域结合在一起。至关重要的是，应综合这些信息，以帮助更好地了解恐怖主义，并为今后的严重后果事件做好准备和反应规划。各种个人和方案从美国和其他地方的受访者那里收集了调查数据，这些数据提供了对恐怖主义的态度、对威胁和风险的看法以及个人和机构对各种灾害的准备情况的看法。该项目开发了一种机制，使研究人员和决策者更容易获得这些调查数据。更具体地说，它建立了一个与国土安全和准备有关的国家和国际调查数据档案。将使用元数据分类系统来构建该数据库，以便于整合在不同背景下收集的数据。具体而言，它将：（1）作为有兴趣更好地了解个人对恐怖主义、安全和准备的信念的学者和国土安全官员的信息交流中心。档案将通过互联网以多种格式向各种受众开放。(2)扩展可以检验的与国土安全和准备有关的假设的性质和类型。例如，可以使用在不同地理区域和/或不同时间段收集的数据来比较个人的风险认知水平。这样的比较可以帮助我们理解各种情况下风险的决定因素。(3)促进今后调查的产生，特别是快速反应调查工具。随着研究人员继续构建新的调查工具，他们将能够轻松地审查数据档案，以确定早期工具中的有用问题。

SES- 0651287Gary LaFreeUniversity of Maryland, College Park The significant and lasting effects of high consequence events, including terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and large-scale accidents call for a concentrated effort at increasing the understanding of terrorism, preparedness and recovery. A diverse history of research exists in these areas both nationally and internationally. However, this information has not been compiled into an accessible and searchable data archive to be available for research activities. Compiling the long history and recent research in these areas may show that studies overlap, contradict, or support each other. For instance, research in communication, psychology, sociology, emergency response, political science, civil engineering, medicine, and other fields may have examined similar issues but have not brought these fields together. It is vital that this information be integrated to help improve understanding of terrorism and preparedness and response planning for future high consequence events. Various individuals and programs have collected survey data from respondents in the United States and elsewhere that provides insights into attitudes toward terrorism, perceptions of threat and risk as well as perceptions of individual and institutional preparedness for disasters of all types. This project develops a mechanism that will make these survey data more accessible to researchers and policy makers. More specifically, it creates an archive of national and international survey data related to homeland security and preparedness. It will be constructed using a meta-data classification system to facilitate the integration of data collected in different contexts. Specifically, it will:(1) Serve as a clearinghouse for academics as well as homeland security officials interested in better understanding individual beliefs about terrorism, security and preparedness. The archive will be accessible to a range of audiences via the internet and in several formats.(2) Expand the nature and types of hypotheses related to homeland security and preparedness that can be examined. For example, comparisons of individual levels of risk perception could be conducted using data collected in different geographic regions and/or during distinct time periods. Such comparisons could help us understand the determinants of risk in a variety of contexts.(3) Facilitate the generation of future surveys, especially rapid-response survey tools. As researchers continue to construct new survey tools, they will be able to easily review the data archives to identify useful questions from earlier instruments.