North Atlantic Population Project

北大西洋人口计划

• 批准号: 7219954
• 负责人: Steve Ruggles
• 金额: $ 25.42万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-08 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7219954
• 关键词: Address; Area; Behavior; Behavioral Research; Canada; Censuses; Characteristics; Code; Collaborations; Collection; Communication; Count; Country; Data; Databases; Demographic Transitions; Demography; Dimensions; Documentation; Economic Development; Economics; Ensure; Family; Fertility; Funding; Geography; Iceland; Individual; Industrialization; Institution; International; Investigation; Investments; Knowledge; Link; Mediation; Medical; Mission; Movement; Nature; Norway; Online Systems; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Growth; Process; Recording of previous events; Records; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Resources; Running; Sampling; Small-Area Study; Social Sciences; Sociology; Subgroup; Sum; Sweden; System; Time Study; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Urbanization; Work; base; comparative; concept; critical developmental period; disability; human population dynamics; improved; migration; mortality; programs; social; success; tool; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks funding to expand and improve the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) database. NAPP is a unique collaboration of eight leading data producers who have leveraged resources to create an extraordinary cross-national historical database. Over the past four years, the collaborating partners have cleaned, edited, coded, harmonized, and disseminated almost 90 million records describing basic demographic characteristics of the populations of five countries. These data include the entire population of Britain and Canada in 1881, Iceland in 1870, 1880, and 1901, Norway in 1865 and 1900, and the United States in 1880. These are the only complete-count national microdata available for scholarly research, and they represent an extraordinary resource for the study of small areas and population subgroups. This fundamental social science infrastructure is already stimulating broad-based comparative investigations of economic development and demographic change. To exploit the research potential of these data, we now propose: (1) expanding the chronological and geographic dimension of the database by incorporating data from additional census years for each country and adding data from Sweden; (2) coordinating national projects to link individuals between censuses, which will permit longitudinal analysis; and (3) improving NAPP variables, data editing, documentation, and web- based dissemination tools. The availability of multiple cross-sections for the population of the North Atlantic world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will open up vast new terrain in the fields of history, economics, demography, and sociology. In addition, linked samples hold the promise of finally resolving some of the longest-running debates in social and economic history. Scholars will be able to gauge trends and differentials of social and geographic mobility and the interrelationship of geographic and economic movement far more reliably than heretofore. The expanded NAPP database is directly relevant to the central mission of the NIH as the steward of medical and behavioral research for the nation: NAPP will advance fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of human population dynamics. This basic infrastructure will advance health-related research on population growth and movement, fertility, mortality, and disability.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求资金，以扩大和改善北大西洋人口项目（NAPP）数据库。NAPP是八家领先的数据生产商的独特合作，他们利用资源创建了一个非凡的跨国历史数据库。在过去四年中，合作伙伴清理、编辑、编码、统一和传播了近9 000万份记录，这些记录描述了五个国家人口的基本人口特征。这些数据包括1881年英国和加拿大的全部人口，1870年、1880年和1901年冰岛的全部人口，1865年和1900年挪威的全部人口，以及1880年美国的全部人口。这些是可用于学术研究的唯一完整的国家微观数据，它们是研究小地区和人口亚群的非凡资源。这一基本的社会科学基础设施已经在促进对经济发展和人口变化进行基础广泛的比较研究。为了利用这些数据的研究潜力，我们现在建议：（1）通过纳入每个国家额外的人口普查年份的数据和瑞典的数据，扩大数据库的时间和地理范围;（2）协调国家项目，将人口普查之间的个人联系起来，这将允许进行纵向分析;（3）改进NAPP变量、数据编辑、文件编制和网络传播工具。19世纪和20世纪初北大西洋世界人口的多个横截面的可用性将在历史学、经济学、人口学和社会学领域开辟广阔的新领域。此外，关联样本有望最终解决社会和经济历史上一些持续时间最长的争论。学者们将能够比以往更可靠地衡量社会和地理流动的趋势和差异，以及地理和经济运动的相互关系。扩大后的NAPP数据库与NIH作为国家医学和行为研究管理者的中心使命直接相关：NAPP将推进有关人类人口动态的性质和行为的基础知识。这一基本基础设施将推动关于人口增长和流动、生育率、死亡率和残疾的卫生研究。