Grandparent Families in the 2000 Census

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究的目的是对祖父母家庭进行人口统计分析，重点关注这些家庭在种族和民族方面的患病率和特征差异。根据1996年《福利改革法》的要求，人口普查局编制了2000年人口普查中关于祖父母对生活在同一家庭的孙子孙女负责的问题，首次允许对这一问题进行系统的全国评估。基于这些数据，本项目研究了没有父母的祖父母家庭（“隔代”家庭），以及更大的祖父母家庭，至少有一个父母（“三代”家庭）。这项拟议研究的四个具体目标是：(1)对祖辈家庭在种族和国籍群体中的普遍程度进行全国估计。这项活动首次评估了这种行为在多大程度上是跨种族群体广泛发生的，还是集中在少数种族群体中。(2)分析各类祖父母家庭的主要家庭特征和资源。本研究考察了三代家庭的资源基础和家庭特征，以及这些特征在种族/民族之间的差异。除了财政资源外，与残疾状况、劳动力活动、移民身份和公民身份以及英语熟练程度有关的特征也被描述。(3)评估三代家庭中最老代和中间代的资源平衡。比较了祖父母报告对孩子负责的家庭和祖父母没有报告对孩子负责的家庭的资源平衡。这项研究提供了证据，说明父母和祖父母的特征差异（例如，工作地位、低收入、残疾方面的差异）如何与家庭的人口特征和对儿童责任的特征有关。(4)提供包括祖父母家庭数据在内的微数据文件。将这些数据传播给学术界和政策界的广泛研究人员，将进一步促进对祖父母家庭的了解。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this study is to conduct a demographic analysis of grandparent households, focusing on differences in prevalence and characteristics of these households by race and ethnicity. As required by the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, the Census Bureau developed questions included in the 2000 Census of Population about grandparents who were responsible for their grandchildren living in the same household, allowing systematic national assessment of this issue for the first time. Based on these data, this project examines grandparent households that include no parents ("skipped-generation" households) as well as the much larger pool of grandparent households that include at least one parent ("three-generation" households). Four specific aims guide the proposed study: (1) To develop national estimates of the prevalence of grandparent households for race and national origin groups. This activity provides for the first time an assessment of the extent to which this behavior is occurring broadly across racial groups or, instead, concentrated in a few racial groups. (2) To profile the key household characteristics and resources within each type of grandparent household. This study examines the resource base and household characteristics of three-generation families, and the variation across race/ethnic groups in those features. In addition to financial resources, characteristics relating to disability status, labor force activity, immigration status and citizenship, and English proficiency are profiled. (3) To evaluate the resource balance of the oldest and middle generations within three-generation households. The resource balance is compared for households in which the grandparent reports responsibility for the child, and those in which the grandparent does not report such responsibility. The study provides evidence on how differences in the characteristics of the parents and of the grandparents (e.g., differences in work status, low income, disability) are related to the demographic features of the household and the characterization of responsibility for children. (4) To make available micro data files including data for grandparent families. Dissemination of the data to a wide range of researchers in the academic and policy communities will further advance the understanding of grandparent families.