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学分析，重点关注这些家庭按种族和民族划分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负责照顾生活在同一家庭的孙辈的问题，首次允许对这一问题进行系统的全国评估。根据这些数据，该项目审查了没有父母的祖父母家庭（“隔代”家庭）以及至少有一个父母的祖父母家庭（“三代”家庭）。四个具体目标指导拟议的研究：（1）制定全国估计的流行率祖父母家庭的种族和民族血统群体。这项活动首次评估了这种行为在多大程度上广泛发生在各种族群体中，或者集中在少数种族群体中。(2)概述每类祖父母家庭的主要家庭特征和资源。本研究探讨了三代同堂家庭的资源基础和家庭特征，以及这些特征在种族/民族群体中的差异。除了财政资源，有关残疾状况，劳动力活动，移民身份和公民身份，以及英语水平的特点进行了分析。(3)评估三代同堂家庭中最年长和中间世代的资源平衡。对祖父母报告对子女负有责任的家庭和祖父母不报告这种责任的家庭的资源平衡情况进行了比较。这项研究提供了证据，说明父母和祖父母的特征差异（例如，工作状况、低收入、残疾等方面的差异与家庭的人口特征和抚养子女责任的特点有关。(4)提供微观数据文件，包括祖父母家庭的数据。向学术界和政策界的广泛研究人员传播这些数据将进一步增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.