CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND CULTURES: A U.S. U.K. COMPARISON

这项提案寻求资金，以帮助建立一个主要的数据资源-一个两个 全国青年人纵向调查统一数据集， 调查和测试数据。 具体来说，该项目的第一项任务将支持数据收集 来自英国的几千名儿童， 在备受尊敬和影响的“全国儿童 发展研究”（NCDS），自诞生以来一直在进行 1958年3月的一次聚会。 这项儿童调查的设计将反映 在许多方面，重要的“NLS/Y儿童”数据的设计 背景设在美国 除了在英国收集儿童数据外，项目的 第二项任务将是从“儿童”中创建公共使用数据文件， 国家数据交换系统”尽可能密切地将 广泛使用“免入息审查贷款计划的儿童/青年”，从而推广使用 健康发展决定因素比较研究档案 两种文化中的孩子。 项目的第三项任务是撰写一本研究专著 解决美国和英国儿童所面临的差异。- - 在医疗保健、儿童保育、教育系统和 家庭结构这项研究将侧重于家庭的作用， 在过去15年里出生的这些儿童的发展中， 以及这些不同角色的政策含义。

This proposal seeks funds to help create a major data resource - a two nation, unified data set with longitudinal surveys of young adults and survey and test data on their children. Specifically, this project's first task will support the data collection from several thousand children in the United Kingdom, the children of the respondents in the highly respected and influential "National Child Development Study" (NCDS) which has been underway since the birth of this cohort in March, 1958. The design of this survey of children will mirror in many respects the design of the important "Children of the NLS/Y" data set in the U.S. In addition to the collection of the child data in the U.K., the projects's second task will be to create public use data files from the "Children of the NCDS" that parallel, as closely as feasible, the data files of the widely used "Children of the NLS/Y", thus promoting the use of the two files for comparative study of the determinants of the healthy development of children in the two cultures. The third task in the project is the writing of a research monograph addressing the differences faced by children in the U.S. and in the U.K. - - differences in health care, in child care, in educational systems, and in family structure. The research will focus on the role of the family and the society in the development of these children born in the past fifteen years and the policy implications of those varying roles.