The Past Context: Supplementing Survey Data on Aging

过去的背景：补充老龄化调查数据

• 批准号: 7243421
• 负责人: Sandra L Hofferth
• 金额: $ 6.12万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7243421
• 关键词: Age; Aging; Aging-Related Process; Censuses; Child; Cohort Studies; Communities; Condition; Data; Databases; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Economics; Education; Elderly; Employment; Environment; Fertility; Future; Generations; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Status; Healthcare; Household; Individual; Intergenerational Relations; Interview; Investments; Labor Forces; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Life Tables; Link; Literature; Living Arrangement; Marriage; Marriage Ages; Measures; Mexican; Mexico; Modeling; Occupations; Paper; Performance; Personal Satisfaction; Pilot Projects; Play; Population; Principal Investigator; Process; Public Health; Rate; Records; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Proposals; Resources; Role; School Enrollments; Series; Social Security; Source; Staging; Surveys; System; Testing; Time; Woman; aged; aging population; base; cohort; human capital; labor force participation; mortality; social; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support for two years to enhance recently gathered survey data on aging in Mexico using secondary data. The goal of this pilot project is to explore the idea of supplementing household data gathered through personal interviews in late life, with secondary data that corresponds to the earlier context, capturing details of the conditions that prevailed at the time individuals made particular decisions throughout their life cycle. The aim is to evaluate the hypothesis that indicators about the earlier- life context can provide further details for modeling late-life well being, beyond what age cohort indicators can provide. The long-term objective is to prepare a research proposal that will use the constructed data in more detail. The goal of that future project will be to examine the effect on late-life well being of early-life labor force and fertility decisions of women, and human capital investment in children's education. To accomplish the goal of this pilot project, we use household data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and link the information on individuals aged 50 or more in 2001 with historical secondary data on socioeconomic and demographic conditions in Mexico. Specific aims of this project are: a) to propose and construct indicators that capture the conditions of the context faced by individuals earlier in life; and b) to test the usefulness of these indicators in preliminary models of one late-life well being indicator, namely wealth. The products from this pilot project will be: 1) two databases containing the series of historical indicators constructed, which will be made available to the research community. One will be linked to the individual records of the MHAS data, and one will contain the aggregate historical data in a flexible format. 2) A paper describing the MHAS cohorts and their respective historical context; and 3) a paper summarizing our conclusions on whether the series of indicators can contribute significant information based on preliminary, basic models of late-life wealth.

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请申请为期两年，以加强最近收集的墨西哥老龄化调查数据使用二次数据。这一试点项目的目标是探索在晚年通过个人访谈收集的家庭数据，用与早期背景相对应的次要数据补充这一想法，以获取个人在整个生命周期做出特定决定时普遍存在的条件的细节。其目的是评估这样一种假设，即关于早年生活背景的指标可以为模拟晚年幸福感提供更多细节，而不是年龄队列指标所能提供的。长期目标是准备一份研究提案，该提案将更详细地使用构建的数据。该未来项目的目标将是研究早期劳动力和妇女生育决定对晚年幸福的影响，以及对儿童教育的人力资本投资。为了实现这一试点项目的目标，我们使用了来自墨西哥健康和老龄化研究(MHAS)的家庭数据，并将2001年50岁或以上个人的信息与墨西哥社会经济和人口状况的历史次要数据联系起来。该项目的具体目标是：(A)提出和建立指标，反映个人早年所面临的环境条件；(B)在晚年幸福指标--财富的初步模型中测试这些指标的有用性。这一试点项目的产品将是：1)两个数据库，其中包含所建立的一系列历史指标，将向研究界提供。其中一个将链接到MHAS数据的各个记录，另一个将以灵活的格式包含汇总的历史数据。2)一篇描述MHAS人群及其各自历史背景的论文；3)一篇总结我们关于这一系列指标是否能够根据初步的、基本的晚年财富模型贡献重要信息的论文。