Adding Health Variables to the CNEF

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案寻求资金，以支持在2010年健康人倡议下根据现有数据开发、增强和汇编一个新的数据库。我们建议向研究界提供来自三个长期小组研究的新的健康数据：美国小组收入动态研究(PSID)、英国家庭小组调查(BHPS)和德国社会经济小组(GSOEP)。利用这些主要数据来源，我们将对它们进行重新编码和汇总，以创建一套衡量所有三个国家同等健康概念的健康变量。这些新的健康变量将被添加到跨国等值文件(CNEF)中包含的其他概念上等价的数据中。这一丰富的数据文件将对研究老年人口健康与社会经济因素之间关系的研究人员具有价值。我们会： 1.更新《卫生和社会保障方案》中2000年和2001年调查年、GSOEP 2001年和2002年调查年以及PSID 1999年和2001年调查年的所有现行国家环境影响评估等效变量， 2.扩大国民健康状况调查中的等值变量集，方法是根据最近扩大的健康和健康行为自报问题集创建新的可比健康变量集，这些问题集在《卫生与健康行动计划》、GSOEP和PSID中，以及 3.比较这些现代工业化社会中老年人和年轻人的相对健康和经济福祉，并说明这三个国家的社会经济群体内部和之间的健康差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks funding to provide support for the development, enhancement and assembly of a new database from existing data under the Healthy People 2010 initiative. We propose to make available to the research community new health data from three long-running panel studies: the United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), and the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Using these primary data sources we will recode and aggregate them to create a set of health variables measuring equivalent concepts of health in all three countries. These new health variables will be added to other conceptually equivalent data contained in the Cross-National Equivalence File (CNEF). This rich data file will be of value to researchers who study the relationship between health and soclo-economic factors in the older age population. We will: 1. update all current CNEF equivalized variables for survey years 2000 and 2001 in the BHPS, survey years 2001 and 2002 for the GSOEP, and survey years 1999 and 2001 in the PSID, 2. expand the set of equivalized variables in the CNEF by creating new comparable health variables from the recently enlarged set of self-reported health and health behavior questions in the BHPS, GSOEP, and PSID, and 3. compare the relative health and economic well-being of the older and younger populations in these modern industrialized societies and to show how health varies within and across socio-economic groups in the three countries.