Archiving the National Long Term Care Survey 1982-2004

描述（由申请人提供）：国家长期护理调查（NLTCS）是一项基础研究，旨在衡量美国老年人残疾的进展情况。作为为数不多的明确识别和追踪向残疾过渡以及这一过程对老龄人口生活的影响的研究之一，NLTCS极大地影响了我们对残疾生命历程的思考。NLTCS由六个小组组成，从1982年到2004年，大约每五年采访一次原始受访者或其未亡配偶。2006年底，这项研究转移到国家老龄问题计算机化数据档案馆，最近完成了这项研究的2004年浪潮，这一应用要求提供资金，支持国家老龄问题计算机化数据档案馆开发增强的国家老龄问题计算机化数据档案馆的工作。目前的应用程序侧重于初步改进，将代表NLTCS的六个波的结构标准化，创建更统一的数据收集，并进行准备工作，以便提交更大的应用程序，为残疾生命过程研究创建一个工作纵向文件。我们建议实施一个集中的档案交付系统，使我们能够解决四个不同的研究需求：1）增强数据结构：我们将更新和标准化的六个面板的数据构成国家长期护理调查，以满足当前的档案标准。2)文档增强功能：我们会广泛修订有关NLTCS的文件，以加入易于使用的守则和问卷，并制作数据定义档案，供SAS、STATA和SPSS分析软件使用。更重要的是，我们将使用XML，DDI兼容的文件格式标准为NLTCS创建在线文档文件。3)加强信息发布：我们将为所有有兴趣获得NLTCS的用户提供简化和可靠的交付服务。为所有NACDA数据收集提供的这项服务对NLTCS特别重要，因为它有特定的保密问题，不仅需要管理和监测数据的能力，而且需要协议定义数据的使用。4)增值支持服务的增强：我们将为NLTCS提供一整套支持工具和书目参考资料，以及一个可搜索的动态在线书目，并将与所有电子出版物建立稳定的链接。项目叙述：拟议的研究将提高健康研究人员的能力，研究残疾对整个老龄化过程的影响。通过提高与国家长期护理调查有关的公共使用档案的质量，研究界将在1982年至2004年的二十年期间简化残疾数据的获取。这项研究着眼于健康，经济和家庭对老龄化的影响，以及向养老院和其他机构的过渡

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS) represents a foundation study that measures the progression of disability among the aged in the United States. As one of the few studies explicitly identifies and tracts transitions into disability and the impacts of this process on the lives of aging populations, the NLTCS has greatly influenced our thinking on the disability life course. The NLTCS consists of a series of six panels that interviewed original respondents or their surviving spouses approximately every five years from 1982 to 2004. The relocation of the study to the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) in late 2006 and the recent completion of the 2004 wave of this study this application requests funds to support work by NACDA in the development of an enhanced NLTCS. The current application focuses on preliminary enhancements that will standardize the structure of the six waves that represent the NLTCS, creating a more uniform data collection and doing preparatory tasks to allow the submission of a larger application to create a working longitudinal file for disability life course research. We propose to implement a focused archival delivery system that will allow us to address four distinct research needs: 1) Enhancements to Data Structure: We will update and standardize the six panels of data constituting the National Long Term Care Survey to meet current archival standards. 2) Enhancements to Documentation: We will extensively revise the documentation on the NLTCS to include user-friendly versions of codebooks and questionnaires and create data definition files for use with SAS, STATA and SPSS analysis software. More importantly, we will create online documentation files for the NLTCS using XML, DDI compliant file format standards. 3) Enhancements to Dissemination: We will provide streamlined and reliable delivery services for all users interested in obtaining the NLTCS. This service, provided for all NACDA data collections, is particularly critical for the NLTCS as it has specific confidentiality issues that require the ability to manage and monitor not only the data but agreements define the use of the data. 4) Enhancements to Value Added Support Services: We will provide the NLTCS a full suite of support tools and bibliographic reference materials and a dynamic online bibliography of the study that is searchable and will have stable links to all electronically available publications. PROJECT NARRATIVE: The proposed study will enhance the capacity of health researchers to study the impacts of disability across the aging life course. By improving the quality of the public use files associated with the National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS) the research community will have streamlined access to disability data over a two decade period from 1982 to 2004. The study looks at health, economic and family impacts on aging and the transitions into nursing homes and other institutional settings