Adding Health Variables to the CNEF

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案寻求资金支持，以根据健康人2010倡议的现有数据开发、增强和组装一个新数据库。我们建议向研究界提供来自三个长期小组研究的新健康数据：美国收入动态小组研究（PSID），英国家庭小组调查（BHPS）和德国社会经济小组（GSOEP）。利用这些原始数据来源，我们将对它们进行重新编码和汇总，以创建一组健康变量，衡量所有三个国家的同等健康概念。这些新的健康变量将被添加到跨国等效文件（CNEF）中包含的其他概念等效数据中。这一丰富的数据文件将对研究老年人健康与社会经济因素之间关系的研究人员有价值。我们将:

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.