Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2012

描述（由申请人提供）：今天，美国近40%的新生儿是由未合法结婚的父母所生。在过去的十年里，脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究（FFS）已经成为研究有孩子的未婚父母（通常被称为“脆弱家庭”）的能力和面临的挑战的重要工具。FFS是一项具有全国代表性的纵向出生队列调查，调查对象是1998年至2001年在美国20个大城市出生的儿童，其中有大量未婚夫妇生育的样本。这些数据在家庭资源的四个领域（经济、父母关系、健康和养育子女）和儿童发展的三个领域（身体健康、社会情感健康和认知发展）的重复测量中非常丰富。该提案为2012年夏季举办和实施为期三天的讲习班寻求资金，讲习班将培训来自不同学科的初级人口研究人员如何使用脆弱家庭数据。这些讲习班将传播脆弱家庭数据，增进对脆弱家庭面临的问题的了解，并为新一代社会和生物医学科学家提供指导和合作的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nearly 40% of all births in the United States today occur to parents who are not legally married. Over the last ten years, the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFS) has emerged as an important tool in research on the capabilities of, and challenges facing unmarried parents with children, often referred to as "fragile families." The FFS is a nationally representative, longitudinal, birth cohort survey of children born between 1998 and 2001 in 20 large American cities, with a large oversample of births to unmarried couples. The data are uniquely rich in repeated measures of four domains of family resources - economic, parent relations, heath, and parenting and three domains of child development - physical health, socio-emotional wellbeing, and cognitive development. This proposal seeks funds for the development and implementation of a three-day workshop in the summer of 2012, which will train junior population researchers from a variety of disciplines on the use of the Fragile Families data. These workshops will result in the dissemination of the Fragile Families data, an improved understanding of the issues facing fragile families, and opportunities for mentorship and collaboration for a new generation of social and biomedical scientists. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This proposal seeks funds to develop and operate a summer workshop to train a diverse group of early- career scholars on the use of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. The workshop will present substantive findings from the data, discuss the measurement of key constructs for population research, and provide hands-on training with the Fragile Families data. In so doing, the proposed workshop will support a cohort of emerging scholars and further the understanding of behavioral and social functioning relevant to the health and wellbeing of children and families.