Creating a Lifecourse Panel from Birth to Early Adulthood

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议继续收集和分发关于PSID-CDS家庭中儿童的数据，这些儿童正在多波研究“过渡到成年（TA）”中从青春期过渡到成年早期。“具体来说，我们寻求支持，在2009年和2011年从儿童发展补助金队列中年满18岁的儿童中收集另外两波TA。这将产生一个PSID的CDS-TA子面板，其中包含关于初始（1997年）CDS波中0-12岁的3，653名儿童的从幼儿期到青年期的七波信息。我们还寻求对研究界开展外联活动的支持，以提高认识并促进在多学科背景下使用这些数据。在过去的30年里，在美国，我们看到了在教育、工作、经济独立、婚姻/同居和父母身份等领域，可以被称为向成年过渡的年龄跨度的急剧增加。所有这一切都发生在一个变化很大的年龄段，平均来说，一个更长的时间。像英国家庭调查小组和其他家谱小组一样，TA-CDS提供了大量信息，说明青年人从十几岁开始如何通过教育、职业和关系转变，这些转变标志着发达国家向成年人的过渡。所有的CDS/TA数据都可以通过我们的在线数据中心与父母、祖父母和兄弟姐妹在可比生命历程阶段的经历相连接。在NICHD的事先支持下，已经在CDS中收集了三波关于这些来自PSID家庭的青年的数据，1997年（CDS-I）为0-12岁，2002/03年（CDS-II）为5-18岁，2007/08年（CDS-III）为10-18岁。此外，技术援助研究的前两波工作也已顺利进行。TA 2005年收集了745名年满18岁并在2005年高中毕业或离开高中的年轻人的访谈，回复率为89%。第二波TA于2008年3月结束，收集了这些年轻人以及截至2007年年满18岁并毕业或离开高中的人的访谈，共1，118次访谈，回复率为90%。我们计划收集所有CDS儿童的TA数据，因为他们过渡到主要PSID样本。那些已经完成这种转变的少数CDS青年也将收到与仍然住在家里的依赖TA样本相同的材料。技术援助内容广泛，涵盖必须直接报告的材料。随着18岁以上CDS“校友”数量的增加，TA样本量也在不断增加，2009年约有1,891人符合条件，2011年又有1,962人符合条件，这提高了样本的可信度。公共卫生相关性：18岁至25-28岁这段时间已成为青年人不再是青少年但也不是成年人的人生阶段。目前，我们对促进或阻碍成功度过这一时期进入富有成效的成年期的个人和社会特征几乎一无所知。在2009年和2011年收集TA数据将添加到新的PSID-CDS-TA组合数据资源，为跨学科科学界提供了一个独特的机会，以特别创新和信息丰富的方式研究各种家庭和行为因素对成功的早期生命历程轨迹的作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to continue the collection and distribution of data on children in PSID-CDS families who are making the transition from adolescence into early adulthood in a multiwave study, "Transition into Adulthood (TA)." Specifically, we seek support for two additional waves of TA to be collected in 2009 and 2011 from the children of the Child Development Supplement cohort who have turned age 18 by this time. This will yield a combined CDS-TA sub-panel of the PSID with seven waves of information from early childhood to young adulthood on this cohort of 3,653 children age 0-12 in the initial (1997) wave of CDS. We also seek support for the conduct of outreach to the research community in order to increase awareness and facilitate the use of these data in a multi-disciplinary context. Over the last 30 years in the U.S. we have seen a dramatic increase in the age span of what can be called transition to adulthood in the domains of education, work, economic independence, marriage/cohabitation, and parenthood. All of this is occurring over a widely variable age interval and on average, a longer one. Like the British Household Panel Survey, and other genealogical panels, TA-CDS provides extensive information on the ways in which youth, from early teenage years on, make their way through the educational, occupational, and relationship transitions that mark the transition to adulthood in developed countries. All the CDS/TA data can be connected, via our on-line Data Center, to the experiences of the parents and grandparents and siblings at comparable life course stages. With prior support from NICHD, three waves of data have already been collected on these youth from PSID families in the CDS, in 1997 (CDS-I) at age 0-12, again in 2002/03 (CDS-II) at age 5-18, and again in 2007/08 (CDS-III) for those at age 10-18. In addition, the first two waves of the TA study have been successfully implemented. TA 2005 collected interviews from 745 youth who turned age18 and graduated or left high school as of 2005 for an 89 percent response rate. The second wave of TA concluded in March 2008, collecting interviews from these same youth plus those who turned 18 and graduated or left high school as of 2007, for a total of 1,118 interviews and a 90 percent response rate. We plan to collect TA data for all CDS children as they make the transition into the main PSID sample. Those few CDS youth who have already made this transition will also receive the same material as the dependent TA sample still living at home. The TA content is extensive and covers material which must be reported directly. The TA sample sizes increase over time as the number of CDS 'alumni' over age 18 grows, with about 1,891 eligible in 2009 and another 1,962 in 2011, boosting sample power. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The years between 18 and 25-28 years of age have become a period of life in which youth are no longer adolescents but not yet adults. We currently know almost nothing about the personal and social characteristics that either facilitate or impede the successful passage through this period into a productive adulthood. Collecting TA data in 2009 and 2011 will add to the new PSID-CDS-TA combined data resource, presenting a unique opportunity for an interdisciplinary scientific community to examine the role of various familial and behavioral factors on successful early life course trajectories in particularly innovative and informative ways.