Integrated Demographic and Health Survey Data for Population Health Research

项目总结/摘要 该提案寻求继续提供资金，以扩大和加强IPUMS DHS，消除过度- 时间和跨国分析与人口与健康调查（DHS），世界上最长的运行 关于低收入和中等收入国家健康和生育率的系列调查。借助强大的数据发现工具， 数千个统一的变量、易于访问的文档以及社会和环境背景 与个人记录相关的变量，IPUMS DHS大大降低了成本，增加了范围，严格性， 人口健康研究的可重复性。IPUMS DHS的时间和地理范围 数据库使尖端的人口健康研究的主题，包括生育，避孕，新生儿 和五岁以下儿童死亡率，出生体重不足，儿童发育不良和消瘦，腹泻，营养，食品安全，肥胖， 危险性行为、获得保健、妇女赋权、亲密伴侣暴力、水和 卫生和武装冲突对生殖选择的影响。拟议的创新和扩大 下一阶段数据库的更新将成倍增加IPUMS支持的潜在研究课题 国土安全部该延续项目有五个具体目标：目标1。实现全球覆盖。IPUMS DHS现在 纳入了来自41个非洲和亚洲国家的170项人口与健康调查的微观数据，但尚未涵盖 拉丁美洲、加勒比海、中亚和东亚、东欧或大洋洲。下一阶段将增加 新区域的调查系列，同时还增加了非洲和南亚的最新调查。目标2.解锁 IPUMS全球健康数据库的比较研究。IPUMS DHS将变得更加强大 在下一阶段，当数据库与其他全球卫生数据系列（如 儿童基金会的多指标类集调查。如果再加上多指标类集调查的数据， 国土安全部的国家将有三个或更多的样本进行跨时间的比较，98%的国家将有来自 21世纪世纪。目标3：促进关于社会和环境背景对环境影响的前沿研究， 健康项目第三阶段将使IPUMS中的社会和环境背景变量增加两倍 国土安全部有了这些新数据，研究人员将进行开创性的研究，例如全球比较 海平面上升对沿海社区个人健康的影响。目标4。加快数据 通过简化或消除研究人员的数据管理任务进行分析。拟议的改进将 使用户能够根据主题内容、变量可用性和国家特征筛选样本。我们将 还开发了应用程序编程接口（API），允许用户自动执行定义和 执行数据提取。目标5。支持和扩展我们的用户社区。IPUMS DHS致力于 使人口数据的获取民主化。该项目将继续提供强有力的个性化用户支持， 网络研讨会和重要会议上的研讨会，同时引入在线教程和代码共享机会。

Project Summary/Abstract This proposal seeks continued funding to expand and enhance IPUMS DHS, which eliminates barriers to over- time and cross-national analyses with the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the world's longest running survey series on health and fertility in low- and middle-income countries. With powerful data discovery tools, thousands of harmonized variables, easy-to-access documentation, and social and environmental context variables linked to individual records, IPUMS DHS dramatically reduces the cost and increases the range, rigor, and reproducibility of research on population health. The temporal and geographic scope of the IPUMS DHS database enables cutting-edge population health research on topics including fertility, contraception, neonatal and under-five mortality, low birth weights, child stunting and wasting, diarrhea, nutrition, food safety, obesity, risky sexual behavior, access to health care, women’s empowerment, intimate partner violence, water and sanitation, and the impact of armed conflict on reproductive choices. The proposed innovations to and expansion of the database in the next phase will exponentially increase the potential research topics enabled by IPUMS DHS. The continuation project has five specific aims: Aim 1. Achieve global coverage. IPUMS DHS now incorporates microdata from 170 DHS surveys from 41 African and Asian countries, but it does not yet cover Latin America, the Caribbean, Central and East Asia, Eastern Europe, or Oceania. The next phase will add survey series from new regions, while also adding the latest surveys from Africa and South Asia. Aim 2. Unlock comparative research across IPUMS global health databases. IPUMS DHS will become even more powerful in the next phase when the database is made interoperable with other global health data series, such as UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). When coupled with data from MICS, almost 90 percent of DHS countries will have three or more samples to compare across time, and 98 percent will have data from the 21st century. Aim 3. Enable cutting-edge research on the impact of social and environmental context on health. The third project phase will triple the number of social and environmental context variables in IPUMS DHS. With these new data, researchers will conduct path-breaking research, such as global comparisons of the impact of rising sea levels on the health of individuals in communities near coastlines. Aim 4. Expedite data analysis by simplifying or eliminating researchers’ data management tasks. Proposed enhancements will enable users to filter samples based on topical content, variable availability, and country characteristics. We will also develop an Application Programming Interface (API), allowing users to automate the tasks of defining and executing data extracts. Aim 5. Support and expand our user community. IPUMS DHS is committed to democratizing access to population data. The project will continue to provide robust individualized user support, webinars, and workshops at key conferences, while introducing online tutorials and code-sharing opportunities.