Integrated Samples of Latin American Censuses

拉丁美洲人口普查综合样本

• 批准号: 7524541
• 负责人: ROBERT Edward MCCAA
• 金额: $ 59.01万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-07 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7524541
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A vast archive of raw census microdata covering Latin America in the period since 1960 survives in machine- readable form. Over the past five years, this project has made a substantial portion of these data available to researchers for the first time. This application seeks funding to complete work on an integrated database including samples of approximately 100 Latin American and Caribbean censuses. These microdata and accompanying documentation will be made available for scholarly and educational research through a web- based data dissemination system. This project leverages previous federal investments in social science infrastructure. Grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation laid the groundwork for the Latin American data series by funding many of the initial costs. Those projects underwrote the development of data cleaning and sampling procedures, metadata systems, data conversion and dissemination software, and design protocols for data and documentation. Raw microdata files, internal documentation, and redistribution agreements for the censuses of virtually every Latin American country have been obtained. As a result, this project is highly cost- effective. The project has four major goals: 1) expand the database dramatically, doubling the number of countries included and adding the 2010 round of censuses for each country, increasing the total size of the database by some 92 percent; 2) improve variable coding, especially for geographic variables; 3) create and disseminate new data products, including geographic boundary files, aggregate summary files that are consistent across time and space, and restricted access microdata that include complete enumerations with full geographic codes; and, 4) implement new infrastructure to improve data access and user support and reduce the cost of long- term maintenance. With 150 million records of public-access data and over a half-billion records of restricted-access data spanning a fifty-year period, the new database will allow social scientists to make comparisons across Latin American nations during a period of transformative change. It will be a powerful resource for understanding the causes and consequences of the extraordinary social and economic transformations that have reshaped the hemisphere during the past half century, including new scientific and policy-relevant health-related research on economic development, demographic transition and population aging, and international migration. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE The proposed database is directly relevant to the central mission of the National Institutes of Health as the steward of medical and behavioral research for the nation; this infrastructure will advance fundamental knowledge about the nature of human population dynamics and will spark new health-related research. The data series will result in a substantial body of new scientific and policy-relevant health-related research on economic development, demographic transition, population aging, and international migration. By opening access to a vast collection of microdata, the project will allow social science and health researchers to address fundamental questions about the impact of the extraordinary social and economic transformations that have reshaped the hemisphere during the past half century.

描述（申请人提供）：自1960年以来，拉丁美洲大量原始人口普查微观数据档案以机器可读形式保存下来。在过去的五年里，该项目首次向研究人员提供了这些数据的很大一部分。该申请寻求资金，以完成一个综合数据库的工作，其中包括大约100次拉丁美洲和加勒比人口普查的样本。这些微观数据和所附文件将通过基于网络的数据传播系统提供给学术和教育研究。该项目利用了以前联邦对社会科学基础设施的投资。美国国立卫生研究院和国家科学基金会的赠款为拉丁美洲的数据系列奠定了基础，为许多初始费用提供了资金。这些项目负责开发数据清理和采样程序、元数据系统、数据转换和传播软件以及数据和文件的设计协议。几乎每个拉丁美洲国家的人口普查原始微观数据档案、内部文件和再分配协议都已获得。因此，该项目具有很高的成本效益.该项目有四个主要目标：（1）大幅度扩大数据库，将所包括的国家数目增加一倍，并为每个国家增加2010年一轮人口普查，使数据库的总规模增加约92%;（2）改进变量编码，特别是地理变量; 3）创建和传播新的数据产品，包括地理边界文件，跨时间和空间一致的聚合摘要文件，以及限制存取的微数据，包括完整的枚举和完整的地理代码;以及4）实施新的基础设施，以改善数据存取和用户支持，并降低长期维护成本。新数据库拥有1.5亿条公共访问数据记录和超过5亿条跨越50年的限制访问数据记录，将使社会科学家能够在变革时期对拉丁美洲国家进行比较。它将是一个强大的资源，用于了解在过去半个世纪中重塑半球的非凡社会和经济变革的原因和后果，包括关于经济发展、人口转型和人口老龄化以及国际移徙的新的科学和政策相关的健康研究。公共卫生相关性拟议的数据库是直接相关的中央使命的国立卫生研究院作为医疗和行为研究的管家为国家;这一基础设施将推进有关人类人口动态的性质的基础知识，并将引发新的健康相关的研究。该数据系列将产生大量关于经济发展、人口转型、人口老龄化和国际移徙的新的科学和政策相关卫生研究。通过开放获取大量微观数据，该项目将使社会科学和卫生研究人员能够解决有关在过去半个世纪重塑半球的非凡社会和经济变革影响的基本问题。