THE FOURTH INDONESIA FAMILY LIFE SURVEY OF AGING

描述(申请人提供)：利用发达国家的纵向数据进行的研究已经证明了小组调查对于理解社会科学中的一系列基本问题的价值。然而，来自发展中国家的长期运行的太阳能电池板很少。印度尼西亚家庭生活调查(IFLS)就是这样一项调查，对于对低收入环境感兴趣的研究人员来说，它一直是宝贵的资源。到目前为止，我们已经收集了三轮完整的数据，分别是1993年、1997年和2000年。所有这些都是公共领域的，事实证明，这些组合在提高我们对低收入环境中重要的经济、人口和健康行为和结果的理解方面非常有用。我们建议在2006年举行第四轮国际足联足球赛。第四轮的附加值是可观的。IFLS4将把这项研究的时间跨度延长到整整13年。拟议的数据将极大地促进研究与老年人有关的人口、健康和社会经济变化，包括在包括长期经济增长、经济急剧下滑和复苏的一段时期内，跨越几代人。能够评估较长一段时间(震荡后8年)重大经济衰退的影响，使IFLS在小组调查中不同寻常。拥有13年的面板数据将允许研究衰老过程如何随着时间的推移对同一个人起作用。它将使人们能够更透彻地了解印度尼西亚目前正在进行的重大健康转型；在这一转型中，慢性病、营养过剩和相关的健康风险因素在适龄成年人和老年人中的作用变得更加重要；同时，传染病和营养不良问题仍然相当普遍。EFLS4建立在过去IFLS调查的一套非常完善的问卷基础上。我们还将推出几项创新。我们将在过去几波中收集的一套已经创新的身体健康指标基础上增加几项新措施。我们还将为社区设施调查开发模块，以便评估权力下放如何影响服务的质量、价格和可获得性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research using longitudinal data from the developed world has demonstrated the value of panel surveys for understanding an array of fundamental questions in social science. Long running panels from developing countries, however, are few and far between. The Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) is one such survey, and it has been valuable resource for researchers interested in low income settings. To date we have collected three full rounds of data, in 1993, 1997, and 2000. All are in the public domain, and in combination have proved highly useful with regard to enhancing our understanding of important economic, demographic, and health behaviors and outcomes in a low-income setting. We propose to conduct a fourth full round of IFLS in 2006. The value added of a fourth round is substantial. IFLS4 will extend the time frame the study spans to a full 13 years. The proposed data will greatly facilitate the study of demographic, health and socioeconomic change pertaining to the elderly over the life-course, across generations and over a period of time that includes long-run economic growth, sharp economic downturn and recovery. Being able to assess the impacts of a major economic downturn over a longer period of time (8 years subsequent to the shock) makes IFLS unusual among panel surveys. Having panel data over a 13 year period will allow study of how aging processes work over time for the same individual. It will allow a more thorough understanding of a major health transition that is now underway in Indonesia; in which the roles of chronic diseases, overnutrition and associated health risk factors among prime-aged adults and the elderly have increased in importance; at the same time that problems of infectious disease and undernutrition are still quite prevalent. EFLS4 builds on a very well-developed set of questionnaires from past IFLS surveys. We will also introduce several innovations. We will add several new measures to the already innovative set of physical health measures collected in past waves. We will also develop modules for the community-facility surveys that allow assessment of how decentralization has affected the quality, price and availability of services.