Microdata for Research on Aging in the Global South

项目总结/摘要 在过去二十年中，综合公共使用微数据系列（IPUMS）创建了一个庞大的数据库 从20世纪60年代到现在，覆盖了地球仪大部分地区的微观数据。这些数据包括详细信息 关于每个人的地理位置，人口特征和经济活动，以及 关于死亡率、移徙、残疾、生活安排和住房特点的信息。IPUMS目前 传播从89个国家的355次人口普查中得出的关于约10亿人的综合数据， 包括全球南部60个国家的212次人口普查。数据可以跨时间和空间进行互操作， 从而能够进行比较分析和研究变化过程。 该提案寻求资金，以扩大IPUMS数据库的范围，并创建强大的新工具， 分析人口老龄化。该项目有四个主要目标：（1）扩大数据库，增加40项普查， 全球南方国家约1亿例;（2）开发新的个人层面变量， 残疾、死亡率、退休、集体宿舍类型、家庭生活安排、移民和经济 （3）开发描述环境和社会经济的新的背景变量 全球南部第二行政级别约15，000个地方的特点;以及（4） 为人口老龄化研究人员提供用户支持、培训和推广，以确保数据广泛 可访问和广泛使用。 利用数十亿美元的人口普查数据投资，这个项目是一个具有高度成本效益的稀缺资源利用， 开发共享的大数据基础设施，用于人口研究、教育和政策制定 衰老拟议的数据库直接涉及人口和社会进程分支的核心目标， NIA通过提供前所未有的力量来理解公共政策的影响， 机构和环境条件对人的健康、福祉和功能的影响 在他们的晚年，在发展中国家。

Project Summary/Abstract Over the past two decades, the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) has created a vast database of microdata covering most of the globe from the 1960s to the present. These data include detailed information about each person's geographic location, demographic characteristics, and economic activities as well as information on mortality, migration, disabilities, living arrangements, and housing features. IPUMS is currently disseminating integrated data on approximately one billion persons drawn from 355 censuses of 89 countries, including 212 censuses of 60 countries in the Global South. The data are interoperable across time and space, enabling comparative analysis and the study of processes of change. This proposal seeks funding to expand the scope of the IPUMS database and create powerful new tools for analyzing population aging. The project has four major goals: (1) Expand the database, adding 40 censuses and approximately 100 million cases for countries in the Global South; (2) Develop new individual-level variables on disability, mortality, retirement, types of group quarters, familial living arrangements, migration, and economic well-being indicators; (3) Develop new contextual variables describing environmental and socioeconomic characteristics of approximately 15,000 places at the second administrative level in the Global South; and (4) Provide user support, training, and outreach to population aging researchers to ensure that the data are broadly accessible and widely used. Leveraging billions of dollars of investments in census data, this project is a highly cost-effective use of scarce resources to develop shared big data infrastructure for research, education, and policy-making on population aging. The proposed database directly addresses core goals of the Population and Social Processes Branch of NIA by providing a resource of unprecedented power for understanding the effects of public policies, social institutions, and environmental conditions on the health, well-being, and functioning of people over the life course and in their later years across the developing world.