A Proposal to Continue 'A National Data Program for the Social Sciences'

继续“社会科学国家数据计划”的提案

• 批准号: 0824618
• 负责人: Tom Smith
• 金额: $ 1300万
• 依托单位: National Opinion Research Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0824618&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Proposal; Continue; National; Data; Program

SES-0824618Tom SmithMichael HoutPeter MarsdenThis project continues the National Data Program for the Social Sciences (NDPSS), more specifically the General Social Survey (GSS) and the United States component of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) The NDPSS is a social indicators, infrastructure, and data dissemination program. Its gather data that allows us to (1) monitor and explain trends, changes and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes and examine the structure and functioning of society in general as well as the role of various sub-groups; (2) compare the United States to other societies, by developing cross-national models of human society; and (3) make high quality data easily accessible to scholars, students, and others with minimal cost and waiting. The GSS is a regular, ongoing interview survey of U.S households. The mission of the GSS is to make timely high-quality scientifically relevant data available to social science researchers. Since 1972 the GSS (with NSF support) has conducted 26 in-person, cross-sectional surveys of the adult household population of the U S with approximately 51,000 respondents. GSS content is wide ranging with approximately 5084 variables overall. The GSS has spurred cross-national research by inspiring other nations to develop data collection programs modeled on the GSS and by joining with the International Social Science Program (ISS). Since 1984 ISSP has grown to 43 nations. The GSSDIRS website is extremely popular with users, having over 4,000,000 visits annually The ISSP website is visited over 200,000 a year. The user community includes researchers, college teachers, university students, business planners, media and public officials. Sociologists, political scientists, economists, statisticians, survey methodologists, anthropologists, geographers, biologists, engineers, psychologists, criminologist, legal scholars, medical/health researchers and business administration and management scholars use GSS data. This use of the GSS is widely documented in publications. This renewal includes several enhancements, upgrades and innovations to the GSS. Specifically, it will 1) add contextual data to supplement individual-level information to place the individual in a social context; (2) expand our coverage of America's ethnic and cultural diversity by the development of Spanish versions of GSS instruments and conducting interviews in Spanish: (3) fully implement a panel deign to study change among individuals and (4) facilitate the collection of auxiliary data on other social units besides individuals and households and to advance multi-level, multi-contextual analyses.Broader Impacts The NDPSS has already had enormous impact beyond the boundaries of the survey itself. The GSS is held as the gold standard by which many other survey data collection activities are measured, and the ISSP program has led to innovations and developments in cross-cultural and cross-national research. The GSS thus serves as a model that is being emulated elsewhere, such as in the recently created European Social Survey program. This renewal project will pioneer the development of a state-of-the-art Interview-to-Internet archiving and dissemination system that will speed access to the computer-assisted interview data and allow users to access all information associated with each variable in a database via extensive hypertext links. The contributions of the GSS to the teaching of quantitative social science analysis are unprecedented. Its accessibility and ease of use has added value far beyond the original data collection efforts, and researchers in the social sciences continue to mine the data both old and new to advance knowledge and test theories. The GSS and ISSP program is part of the core infrastructure of social science research in the U.S.

SES-0824618Tom SmithMichael HoutPeter Marsden该项目延续了国家社会科学数据计划（NDPSS），更具体地说是综合社会调查（GSS）和国际社会调查计划（ISSP）的美国部分。它收集的数据使我们能够（1）监测和解释态度，行为和属性的趋势，变化和常数，并检查社会的结构和功能以及各种子群体的作用;（2）通过开发人类社会的跨国模型，将美国与其他社会进行比较;和（3）使学者、学生和其他人以最小的成本和等待容易地获得高质量的数据。 GSS是对美国家庭进行的定期、持续的访谈调查。 GSS的使命是向社会科学研究人员提供及时的高质量科学相关数据。 自1972年以来，GSS（在NSF的支持下）对美国成年家庭人口进行了26次面对面的横断面调查，调查对象约为51，000人。GSS的内容范围很广，总共约有5084个变量。GSS通过激励其他国家开发以GSS为模型的数据收集程序并加入国际社会科学计划（ISS），促进了跨国研究。自1984年以来，ISSP已发展到43个国家。GSSDIRS网站非常受用户欢迎，每年访问量超过4，000，000。用户群体包括研究人员、大学教师、大学生、商业规划人员、媒体和政府官员。社会学家、政治学家、经济学家、统计学家、调查方法学家、人类学家、地理学家、生物学家、工程师、心理学家、犯罪学家、法律的学者、医学/卫生研究人员以及工商管理和管理学者使用全球统计系统的数据。出版物中广泛记录了GSS的这种使用。这次更新包括对GSS的几项增强、升级和创新。具体而言，它将1）添加上下文数据，以补充个人层面的信息，将个人置于社会背景中;（2）通过开发GSS工具的西班牙语版本和用西班牙语进行访谈，扩大我们对美国种族和文化多样性的覆盖面：（3）全面实施小组设计，以研究个人之间的变化;（4）便利收集除个人和家庭以外的其他社会单位的辅助数据，并推进多层次，更广泛的影响《国家发展和社会稳定战略》已经产生了超越调查本身范围的巨大影响。GSS被认为是衡量许多其他调查数据收集活动的黄金标准，ISSP计划导致了跨文化和跨国研究的创新和发展。因此，GSS作为一种模式正在其他地方效仿，例如最近创建的欧洲社会调查方案。 这一更新项目将率先开发一个最先进的访谈到因特网的存档和传播系统，该系统将加快计算机辅助访谈数据的获取，并使用户能够通过广泛的超文本链接获取与数据库中每个变量有关的所有信息。 GSS对定量社会科学分析教学的贡献是前所未有的。它的可访问性和易用性远远超出了原始数据收集工作的附加值，社会科学研究人员继续挖掘新旧数据，以推进知识和测试理论。GSS和ISSP计划是美国社会科学研究的核心基础设施的一部分。