IPUMS Demographic and Health Surveys

项目摘要/摘要 这项提议寻求持续的支持，以扩大跨国家卫生研究的强大新资源。 IPUMS-国土安全部(http://www.idhsdata.org)解锁访问人口与健康调查， 世界上关于生育率、避孕措施使用、婴儿和孕产妇健康、急性疾病的主要信息来源 和幼儿营养、婴儿和产妇死亡率、家庭暴力、婚姻和性行为， 艾滋病毒/艾滋病知识和流行率，以及低收入和中等收入国家的性别态度 20世纪80年代以后。截至2016年5月的数据发布，IPUM-DHS纳入了90项国土安全部调查和2000多项 19个撒哈拉以南非洲国家加上埃及和印度的综合变量--比 在最初的申请中承诺的。虽然综合数据只上线两年，但 该项目已经吸引了来自61个国家和253个机构的400多名用户。IPUMS-DHS消除 有效和准确使用国土安全部面临多重障碍，但要充分实现 评估这些有价值的调查的相对潜力，这些调查已在90多个国家进行。 IPUMS-DHS的下一阶段将处理四项具体任务：(1)扩大IPUMS-DHS的覆盖范围 在地理上，通过将撒哈拉以南非洲剩余国家包括在内，并将北非、中东 东亚和南亚，并在局部上，通过协调具有挑战性的人体测量和日历变量 成人并纳入更多针对具体国家的变量；(2)将分析单位的数量增加一倍，以促进 除了关于妇女、儿童和家庭的现有数据外，还对男人、夫妇和家庭进行研究 出生；(3)通过将国土安全部的小地理单位(GPS点)链接到IPUMS来创建上下文变量- 国际人口普查微观数据和其他土地利用和环境数据来源；和(4)提供 其他在线工具，如改进的搜索能力、灵活的在线制表和多语言 视频和练习。 拟议的工作将由一支在数据方面拥有丰富经验的高技能研究人员团队进行 整合和以国土安全部为基础的实质性研究。ICF International(收集 原始数据)将提供专家建议和反馈。该项目将采用尖端软件 创新、建立的元数据标准，以及与全球研究界的积极接触。

Project Summary/Abstract This proposal seeks continued support to expand a powerful new resource for cross-national health research. IPUMS-DHS (http://www.idhsdata.org) unlocks access to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the world's primary source of information on fertility, contraceptive use, infant and maternal health, acute illness and nutrition in young children, infant and maternal mortality, domestic violence, marriage and sexuality, HIV/AIDS knowledge and prevalence, and gender attitudes in low- and middle-income countries from the 1980s forward. As of our May 2016 data release, IPUM-DHS incorporates 90 DHS surveys and over 2000 integrated variables for 19 sub-Saharan African countries plus Egypt and India—13 more surveys than promised in the original application. Although the integrated data have only been online for two years, the project has already attracted over 400 users from 61 countries and 253 institutions. IPUMS-DHS eliminates multiple barriers to efficient and accurate use of the DHS, but additional work is required to fully realize the comparative potential of these valuable surveys, which have been fielded in over 90 countries. The next phase of IPUMS-DHS will address four specific tasks: (1) Expand IPUMS-DHS coverage geographically, by including remaining sub-Saharan African countries and adding North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, and topically, by harmonizing the challenging anthropometric and calendar variables for adults and incorporating more country-specific variables; (2) Double the number of units of analysis, facilitating research on men, couples, and households in addition to currently available data on women, children, and births; (3) Create contextual variables by linking small DHS geographic units (GPS points) to IPUMS- International census microdata and other sources of land-use and environmental data; and (4) Provide additional online tools, such as improved search capacity, a flexible online tabulator, and multi-language videos and exercises. The proposed work will be carried out by a team of highly-skilled researchers with extensive experience in data integration and in substantive research based on the DHS. ICF International (the organization that collects the original data) will provide expert advice and feedback. The project will employ cutting-edge software innovations, established metadata standards, and vigorous outreach to the global research community.