Children in Transition to Adulthood: Family and Sibling Connections

描述（由申请人提供）：PSID 是对美国家庭全国代表性样本的纵向调查，始于 1968 年。截至 2005 年，PSID 收集了针对同一家庭及其后代的 34 波数据，成为美国基于经验的社会科学研究数据基础设施的基石。通过对经济和社会福祉的长期衡量，并基于美国家庭的加权代表性样本，该研究迫使研究人员和政策制定者面对社会和行为过程固有的活力并从中学习。在 NICHD 的支持下，PSID 通过 1997 年和 2002 年收集的 PSID 家长及其子女的信息补充了其核心数据收集。儿童发展补充资料为研究人员提供了一个全面的、具有全国代表性的儿童及其家庭的纵向数据库，用于研究早期生活经历的动态过程。 CDS-I 收集了 2,394 个家庭的 3,563 名 0-12 岁儿童的数据。 CDS-II 是在 2002 年对这些 5-18 岁儿童（2,909 名儿童和 2,017 个 PSID 家庭）收集的。目前的拨款申请建议收集有关 CDS 儿童及其家庭的新数据。具体来说，本申请建议： 1）收集2007年和2009年参加CDS的2,019个儿童家庭的核心PSID数据； 2) 2007 年实施一项名为“过渡到成年”的新研究，该研究将收集参加 CDS 的 18 岁及以上儿童的信息。这两项活动是更大计划的一部分，该计划结合在一起，将为儿童及其家庭从出生、童年、青春期和成年早期的健康和福祉提供前所未有的视角，并在丰富的 PSID 数据中获取具有全国代表性的样本。这些活动补充了 NICHD 人口和行为科学分部使命中的两个新重点领域：“代际研究”和“儿童和儿童健康——人口视角”。长期计划包括收集每一波 PSID 的“过渡到成年”数据，直至所有 CDS 儿童年满 25 岁，以及在 2007 年收集第三波 CDS。将通过单独的拨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.