The Past Context: Supplementing Survey Data on Aging

过去的背景：补充老龄化调查数据

• 批准号: 7100388
• 负责人: Rebeca Wong
• 金额: $ 6.53万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7100388
• 关键词: Mexico; aging; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; data collection methodology /evaluation; early experience; health behavior; health surveys; human data; human middle age (35-64); human old age (65+); human population study; lifestyle; mental health information system; prognosis; psychometrics; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for two years to enhance recently gathered survey data on aging in Mexico using secondary data. The goal of this pilot project is to explore the idea of supplementing household data gathered through personal interviews in late life, with secondary data that corresponds to the earlier context, capturing details of the conditions that prevailed at the time individuals made particular decisions throughout their life cycle. The aim is to evaluate the hypothesis that indicators about the earlier- life context can provide further details for modeling late-life well being, beyond what age cohort indicators can provide. The long-term objective is to prepare a research proposal that will use the constructed data in more detail. The goal of that future project will be to examine the effect on late-life well being of early-life labor force and fertility decisions of women, and human capital investment in children's education. To accomplish the goal of this pilot project, we use household data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and link the information on individuals aged 50 or more in 2001 with historical secondary data on socioeconomic and demographic conditions in Mexico. Specific aims of this project are: a) to propose and construct indicators that capture the conditions of the context faced by individuals earlier in life; and b) to test the usefulness of these indicators in preliminary models of one late-life well being indicator, namely wealth. The products from this pilot project will be: 1) two databases containing the series of historical indicators constructed, which will be made available to the research community. One will be linked to the individual records of the MHAS data, and one will contain the aggregate historical data in a flexible format. 2) A paper describing the MHAS cohorts and their respective historical context; and 3) a paper summarizing our conclusions on whether the series of indicators can contribute significant information based on preliminary, basic models of late-life wealth.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求使用二级数据来增强最近收集的有关墨西哥衰老的调查数据。该试点项目的目的是探索补充通过后期个人访谈收集的家庭数据的想法，其辅助数据与早期背景相对应，从而捕获了个人在整个生命周期中做出特定决定的情况的细节。目的是评估以下假设：关于早期生活环境的指标可以为建模晚期的良好状态提供更多细节，超出了年龄群指标可以提供的。长期目标是准备一项研究建议，该计划将更详细地使用构造数据。未来项目的目的是研究对妇女早期劳动力和妇女生育决策的后期健康的影响，以及对儿童教育的人力资本投资。为了实现该试点项目的目标，我们使用墨西哥健康和老化研究（MHA）的家庭数据，并将2001年50岁以上个人的信息与墨西哥的社会经济和人口统计条件的历史次要数据联系起来。该项目的具体目的是：a）提出和构建指标，以捕捉生活中个人早期面临的环境的条件； b）测试这些指标在一个晚期井的初步模型中的有用性，即财富。该试点项目的产品将是：1）两个数据库，其中包含构建的一系列历史指标，这些数据库将提供给研究界。一个人将链接到MHAS数据的各个记录，并且将以灵活的格式包含汇总历史数据。 2）描述MHAS同伙及其各自的历史背景的论文； 3）一篇论文总结了我们的结论，即该系列指标是否可以基于初步的后期财富基本模型来贡献重要信息。