Enhancing Social Science Data Infrastructure: Upgrade of Metadata Documenting Cross-National Microdata

加强社会科学数据基础设施：记录跨国微观数据的元数据升级

• 批准号: 1225596
• 负责人: Janet Gornick
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1225596&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Social; Science; Data; Infrastructure

SES -1225596Janet GornickCUNY Graduate CenterABSTRACTEnhancing Social Science Data Infrastructure: Upgrade of Metadata Documenting Cross-National MicrodataLIS serves as a unique data archive and research center. It provides researchers from multiple fields access to household- and person-level data ("microdata") from high- and middle-income countries around the world. To that end, the LIS staff gathers nationally-representative datasets from many countries and harmonizes them into two distinct databases: the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database, which is focused on income microdata, and the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) Database, which contains wealth microdata. These databases facilitate and promote high-quality cross-national comparative research. Most researchers use the LIS databases to analyze variation across countries in socio-economic outcomes, primarily poverty and income inequality, wealth and debt holdings, and employment and earnings patterns. Many LIS-based studies focus on the impact of public policies and other national institutions on these outcomes. LIS also maintains a massive collection of explanatory documentation ("metadata"), which describes the original data sources and data collection practices, as well as the decisions made by the LIS staff during the process of preparing and harmonizing the data. These metadata document the quality of the LIS data, and are critical for making the data harmonization process transparent to the many data users. The work carried out by the LIS staff -- acquiring, harmonizing, and making the microdata available, and preparing and providing the metadata -- saves many months of data acquisition and preparation time for the researchers who use the data. NSF support for this project permits LIS staff to design and create a metadata repository. It will replace the current metadata storage system, which lacks a search function, with a sophisticated searchable database that will enable users to search the LIS and LWS metadata more easily. The repository will have a back-end populating feature (to be used by the LIS data staff) and a front-end search function (to be used by LIS data users). Broader impactsFor nearly 30 years, LIS has provided access to cross-national microdata that are otherwise difficult to obtain. This has spurred the development of a vast body of comparative research on socio-economic outcomes, carried out by economists, sociologists, and other social scientists around the world. This infrastructure project will produce a searchable metadata system, which will assist the LIS data team as it continues to harmonize and document microdata from a rapidly growing and increasingly diverse set of countries. For the thousands of researchers who already work with the LIS and LWS data, this project will enable them to use both the microdata and the metadata more quickly and more accurately. The new infrastructure will also facilitate the use of the LIS and LWS microdata by new research communities, thereby promoting innovative social science research.

SES-1225596Janet GornickCUNY Graduate CenterABSTRACTEnhancing Social Science Data Infrastructure：Upgrade of Metadata Documenting Cross-National MicrodataLIS是一个独特的数据存档和研究中心。 它使来自多个领域的研究人员能够获得来自世界各地高收入和中等收入国家的家庭和个人数据（"微观数据"）。为此，土地信息系统工作人员从许多国家收集具有国家代表性的数据集，并将其统一纳入两个不同的数据库：卢森堡收入研究数据库，侧重于收入微观数据;以及卢森堡财富研究数据库，包含财富微观数据。这些数据库便利和促进高质量的跨国比较研究。 大多数研究人员使用LIS数据库来分析各国社会经济结果的差异，主要是贫困和收入不平等，财富和债务持有以及就业和收入模式。 许多基于LIS的研究侧重于公共政策和其他国家机构对这些结果的影响。地雷影响调查还保存着大量的解释性文件（"元数据"），其中说明了原始数据来源和数据收集做法，以及地雷影响调查工作人员在编制和统一数据过程中所作的决定。这些元数据记录了地雷影响调查数据的质量，对于使数据统一过程对许多数据用户透明至关重要。地雷影响调查工作人员开展的工作-获取、协调和提供微观数据，以及编写和提供元数据-为使用数据的研究人员节省了数月的数据获取和准备时间。NSF对该项目的支持使LIS工作人员能够设计和创建元数据存储库。 它将取代目前缺乏搜索功能的元数据存储系统，代之以一个先进的可搜索数据库，使用户能够更容易地搜索地雷影响调查和地雷和爆炸物信息系统元数据。 该存储库将具有后端填充功能（由LIS数据人员使用）和前端搜索功能（由LIS数据用户使用）。更广泛的影响近30年来，地雷影响调查提供了获取以其他方式难以获得的跨国微观数据的途径。这促使世界各地的经济学家、社会学家和其他社会科学家对社会经济成果进行了大量的比较研究。这一基础设施项目将产生一个可搜索的元数据系统，这将有助于地雷影响调查数据小组继续统一和记录来自迅速增长和日益多样化的国家的微观数据。 对于已经使用LIS和LWS数据的数千名研究人员来说，该项目将使他们能够更快、更准确地使用微观数据和元数据。 新的基础设施还将便利新的研究团体使用地雷影响调查和地雷预警系统的微观数据，从而促进创新的社会科学研究。