Children in Transition to Adulthood: Family and Sibling Connections

描述（由申请人提供）：PSID是一项纵向调查，从1968年开始，对美国家庭的全国代表性样本进行调查。截至2005年，PSID收集了34波关于同一家庭及其后代的数据，是美国基于经验的社会科学研究的数据基础设施的基石。这项研究迫使研究人员和决策者正视社会和行为过程中固有的活力，并从中学习。在NICHD的支持下，PSID补充了1997年和2002年收集的关于PSID父母及其子女的信息。儿童发展补充为研究人员提供了一个全面的，具有全国代表性的，纵向的儿童及其家庭的数据库，以研究早期生活经验的动态过程。CDS-I收集了2，394个家庭中3，563名0-12岁儿童的数据。2002年收集了这些5-18岁儿童的CDS-II（2 909名儿童和2 017个PSID家庭）。目前的赠款申请建议收集有关CDS儿童及其家庭的新数据。具体而言，该申请建议：1）在2007年和2009年收集参加CDS的2 019个儿童家庭的核心PSID数据; 2）在2007年实施一项名为“向成年过渡”的新研究，该研究将收集参加CDS的18岁及以上儿童的信息。这两项活动是更大的计划的一部分，如果结合在一起，将为丰富的PSID数据中具有全国代表性的样本提供前所未有的儿童及其家庭从出生到童年、青春期和青年期的健康和福祉。这些活动补充了国家排雷中心人口和行为科学分支使命中的两个新的重点领域：“代际研究”和“儿童和儿童健康-人口观点”。长期计划包括收集每一波PSID的“向成年过渡”数据，直到所有CDS儿童至少达到25岁，并在2007年收集第三波CDS。将通过单独的赠款申请寻求对这些额外努力的支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample of U.S. families that began in 1968. With 34 waves of data collected on the same families and their descendents as of 2005, the PSID is a cornerstone of the data infrastructure for empirically based social science research in the U.S. Through its long-term measures of economic and social well-being, and based on its weighted representative sample of U.S. families, the study has compelled both researchers and policy makers to confront and learn from the dynamism inherent in social and behavioral processes. With support from NICHD, the PSID supplemented its core data collection with information on PSID parents and their children collected in 1997 and 2002. The Child Development Supplement provides researchers with a comprehensive, nationally representative, and longitudinal data base of children and their families with which to study the dynamic process of early life experiences. CDS-I collected data on 3,563 children aged 0-12 in 2,394 families. CDS-II was collected on these same children in 2002 when they were 5-18 years old (2,909 children and 2,017 PSID families). The current grant application proposes to collect new data on the CDS children and their families. Specifically, this application proposes to: 1) collect core PSID data in 2007 and 2009 for the 2,019 families of children who participated in the CDS; and 2) implement in 2007 a new study called "Transition into Adulthood," that will gather information from children aged 18 and older who participated in CDS. These two activities are part of the larger plan that, when taken together, will provide an unprecedented look at the health and well- being of children and their families from birth, through childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood for a nationally representative sample within the rich PSID data. These activities complement two of the new areas of emphasis within the mission of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of NICHD: "Intergenerational Research" and "Children and Child Health-A Population Perspective." Long-term plans include the collection of "Transition into Adulthood" data for each wave of the PSID until all CDS children have reached at least age 25, and the collection of a third wave of the CDS in 2007. Support for these additional efforts will be sought through separate grant applications.