INTERMARRIAGE AND HERITABILITY OF RACE/ETHNIC IDENTITIES

通婚和种族/民族身份的遗传性

• 批准号: 2204918
• 负责人: Mary C Waters
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: HARVARD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-09-30 至 1998-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2204918
• 关键词: identity; marriage /marital status; parent offspring interaction; racial /ethnic difference

This is a Shannon award providing partial support for the research projects that fall short of the assigned Institute's funding range but are in the margin of excellence. The Shannon award is intended to provide support to test the feasibility of the approach; develop further tests and refine research techniques; perform secondary analysis of available data sets; or conduct discrete projects that can demonstrate the PI's research capabilities or lend additional weight to an already meritorious application. The abstract below is taken from the original document submitted by the principal investigator. DESCRIPTION: The investigators will use the 5 percent public use microdata sample (PUMS) from the censuses of 1980 and 1990, and the May 1995 Current Population Survey (CPS) to examine four major areas: 1) the patterns and extent of intermarriage across race and Hispanic origin categories, 2) the heritability of the identities of parents onto the children in mixed marriage households, 3) the changes in these patterns over time and among cohorts; and 4) the implications of the interactions of intermarriage and identity choices for the measurement of race and ethnicity now and in the future. This research will contribute in three ways: Substantively, by combining the race and Spanish origin questions to create fine grained categories, descriptive and analytic accounts of intermarriage and heritability will be provided at a far finer level of categorization and detail than has been available in previous studies. The research will also produce new data on an area that has been little addresses with large scale empirical data up to now: the identities of children in intermarried households. Methodologically, they will extend the method of population simulation (or projection) they have developed, which permits taking a more realistic account of the patterns, extent and effects of intermarriage and heritability. Finally, this work is policy relevant. Because a growing proportion of the population has mixed heritages, government record keeping such as those of the census, of vital statistics, and of most affirmative action programs have developed administrative procedures which uses algorithms (which differ by agency) to assign identities in ambiguous cases. This research will provide information on the actual social choices made by parents of multiracial individuals and by interracial individuals themselves. This information can be used to improve vital and other statistics which are now subject to inconsistencies of numerators and denominators arising from ambiguities in assigning racial and ethnic identities.

这是香农奖，为研究提供部分支持 未达到指定研究所资助范围但 处于卓越的边缘。香农奖旨在提供 支持测试该方法的可行性；开展进一步的测试 并完善研究技术；对可用的进行二次分析 数据集；或开展可以展示 PI 的离散项目 研究能力或对已经有功绩的人给予额外的重视 应用。以下摘要摘自原始文件 由主要研究者提交。 描述：调查人员将使用 5% 的公共用途 1980 年和 1990 年人口普查以及 5 月份人口普查的微观数据样本 (PUMS) 1995 年当前人口调查 (CPS) 检查四个主要领域：1) 跨种族和西班牙裔通婚的模式和程度 类别，2）父母身份的遗传性 异族通婚家庭的孩子，3）这些模式的变化 随着时间的推移和群体之间的变化； 4) 的影响 通婚和身份选择的相互作用进行测量 现在和将来的种族和民族。这项研究将 通过三种方式作出贡献： 实质上，通过将种族和 西班牙起源问题以创建细粒度类别、描述性 并将提供异族通婚和遗传力的分析报告 分类和细节程度比以往更加精细 可以在之前的研究中找到。该研究还将产生新数据 在一个很少涉及大规模经验的领域 截至目前的数据：异族通婚家庭中子女的身份。 在方法论上，他们将扩展人口模拟的方法 （或预测）他们已经开发，这允许采取更多 对异族通婚的模式、程度和影响的现实描述 和遗传力。最后，这项工作与政策相关。因为一个 越来越多的人口具有混合遗产，政府 保存记录，例如人口普查、人口动态统计和 大多数平权行动方案都制定了行政程序 它使用算法（因机构而异）来分配身份 模棱两可的情况。这项研究将提供有关实际情况的信息 多种族个体的父母做出的社会选择 跨种族个体本身。该信息可用于 改进目前需要遵守的重要统计数据和其他统计数据 由于含糊不清而导致分子和分母不一致 分配种族和民族身份。