NICHD POPULATION RESEARCH CENTER CORE GRANT

这是一个新的NICHD人口研究中心核心的应用程序 人口问题研究中心（PIRC） 宾夕法尼亚州立大学。 PIRC成立于1972年，是一个 跨学科中心，鼓励，组织和支持 人口研究和培训。 在1980年代中期，一个协调的 和大学的共同努力导致了戏剧性的改善， 宾夕法尼亚州立大学的人口研究和培训，包括 一个受过良好训练的，富有成效的教师与人口研究议程 适合20世纪90年代;实现强大的合格组合 人口研究补助金;并落实必要的核心 人口研究支助服务。 宾夕法尼亚州立大学的人口统计学研究通常涉及统计数据， 人口统计学原因或后果的分析和建模 群体中的个体行为。 主要研究项目 20世纪90年代的主题包括：（1）家庭的急剧转变 结构及其对人口老龄化的后果， 充分就业、家庭贫困、种族和族裔不平等， （2）生育率与生育率的相互关系， 死亡行为与生物过程和群体遗传学的关系， 和（3）制定更好的数据收集方法， 人口行为和变化的分析。 注重文化 以及行为的社会结构背景， 个体生命历程，区别于本研究。 PIRC由7个部门和4个学院的27名成员组成。 从1986年至1990年，PIRC协会获得了32个外部支持 研究经费，出版学术刊物296种。 核心支撑 申请4个PHS赠款，6个NSF赠款，2个私人基金会 赠款和其他来源提供的1笔赠款 1991年7月1日 如果得到资助，2个待批准的PHS赠款和4个计划中的PHS赠款， 其他赠款也将使用核心支助。 PIRC协调一个双重- 在休利特基金会的支持和NIA的人口学学位 博士后培养计划。 为太平洋岛屿研究中心的行政、统计、 信息和计算机核心将提高 人口研究，维持基本研究单位， 知识渊博和经验丰富的专业人员，使研究人员能够使用 他们现有的研究经费更有效地，并提供研究 这些服务将提高研究成果的质量。

This is an application for a new NICHD Population Research Center Core Support Grant to the Population Issues Research Center (PIRC) at The Pennsylvania State University. Established in 1972, the PIRC is an interdisciplinary center that encourages, organizes, and supports research and training in population. In the mid-1980s, a coordinated and concerted University effort resulted in dramatic improvements in population research and training at Penn State, including the assembling of a well-trained, productive faculty with a demographic research agenda appropriate for the 1990s; achieving a strong portfolio of qualifying demographic research grants; and putting in place the requisite core demographic research support services. Demographic research at Penn State typically involves the statistical analysis and modelling of the causes or consequences of demographic behaviors of individuals in populations. The major research program themes in the 1990s include (1) dramatic transformations of family structures, and their consequences for the aging of populations, adequacy of employment, family poverty, racial and ethnic inequality, and intergenerational relations, (2) interrelation of fertility and mortality behaviors with biological processes and population genetics, and (3) development of improved methods for data collection and the analysis of demographic behavior and change. Attention to the cultural and social structural contexts of behaviors, and to their place in the individual life course, distinguishes this research. The PIRC consists of 27 Associates form 7 departments and 4 colleges. From 1986-1990 PIRC Associates were awarded 32 externally supported research grants and produced 296 scholarly publications. Core support is requested for 4 PHS grants, 6 NSF grants, 2 private foundation grants, and 1 grant from other sources in population already in place for July 1, 1991. If funded, 2 pending and 4 planned PHS grants and 4 other grants also would use core support. The PIRC coordinates a dual- title degree in demography with Hewlett Foundation support and an NIA post-doctoral training program. Funding requested for the PIRC's Administrative, Statistical, Information, and Computer cores will improve the productivity of demographic research by maintaining essential research units staffed by knowledgeable and experienced professionals, enabling researchers to use their existing research grants more effectively, and providing research services that will improve the quality of the research produced.