Baseline Microdata for Analysis of U.S. Demographic Change

用于分析美国人口变化的基线微观数据

• 批准号: 8327312
• 负责人: Evan W Roberts
• 金额: $ 68.37万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-15 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8327312
• 关键词: Aged, 80 and over; Agreement; American; Behavior; Behavioral Research; Censuses; Cessation of life; Characteristics; Charge; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Code; Contraceptive methods; Data; Data Collection; Data Quality; Databases; Dictionary; Economics; Education; Fertility; Fertility Study; Foundations; Funding; Future; Genetic Transcription; Goals; Health; Hour; Knowledge; Labor Migrations; Laboratories; Laboratory Study; Link; Marketing; Mediation; Medical Research; Metadata; Minnesota; Mission; Modeling; Mortality Decline; Nature; Nuptiality; Occupations; Online Systems; Persons; Policy Analysis; Population; Population Growth; Process; Property; Recording of previous events; Records; Research; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Running; Saints; Sampling; Schools; Series; Slave; Source; Technology; Testing; Time; Training; Translating; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Update; Work; base; computerized data processing; cost; disability; distributed data; experience; human population dynamics; improved; interest; literacy; migration; mortality; population movement; social; theories; tool; volunteer; web site

Project Summary This proposal seeks funding to capitalize on an extraordinary opportunity to create a demographic database comprising all residents of the United States in 1850. This massive new database will fill a critical gap in American population data infrastructure. The 1850 data collection will provide a baseline for studies of fertility and mortality in the United States before the onset of deliberate fertility control and mortality decline. As the earliest national microdata resource, the database will also be the initial observation for studies of migration, labor markets, wealth distribution, disability, education, and a host of other economic and demographic issues. A database incorporating the entire 1850 census will open an array of new research topics and methodological approaches to the study of long-run demographic change, ranging from the study of the oldest-old to multi-level analysis. The complete-count 1850 database is feasible because of a remarkable data-collection effort by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). This initiative involved approximately 50,000 LDS volunteers who invested over one million hours to transcribe 23 million 1850 census records describing the free population, slaves, and deaths in the year prior to the census. The LDS has agreed to provide these remarkable resources free of charge to create and disseminate a database for scientific research and educational purposes. The first goal of the project is to augment and clean raw transcriptions of the 1850 censuses, adding omitted variables and improving data quality. The second goal is to transform these enhanced transcriptions into a data suitable for statistical analysis, and integrate them with the existing data collections disseminated by the Minnesota Population Center. Old census data are not of purely historical interest; they are essential tools for basic social research and policy analysis. Models and descriptions based on historical experience underlie both theories of past change and projections into the future. These data provide a unique laboratory for the study of economic and demographic processes. This kind of empirical foundation is essential for testing social and economic theory. This database is directly relevant to the central mission of the NIH as the steward of medical and behavioral research for the nation: the new data will advance fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of human population dynamics. This basic infrastructure will stimulate health-related research on population growth and movement, fertility, mortality, and nuptiality, as well as the economic and social correlates of demographic behavior. 1

项目摘要 这项提案寻求资金，以利用创建人口数据库的非同寻常的机会 由1850年美国所有居民组成。这个庞大的新数据库将填补 美国人口数据基础设施。1850年的数据收集将为研究 在美国开始故意控制生育率和死亡率之前，生育率和死亡率有所下降。 作为最早的国家微观数据资源，该数据库也将是研究的初步观察 移民、劳动力市场、财富分配、残疾、教育以及许多其他经济和社会问题 人口统计问题。一个包含整个1850年人口普查的数据库将开启一系列新的研究 研究长期人口变化的主题和方法 从最古老的到多层次的分析。 完整计数1850数据库是可行的，因为教会进行了非凡的数据收集工作 耶稣基督后期圣徒(LDS)。这项倡议涉及大约50,000名LDS志愿者 他花了100多万个小时抄写了2300万份1850年的人口普查记录 人口、奴隶和人口普查前一年的死亡人数。劳保局已同意提供这些服务 免费提供大量资源，以创建和传播科学研究数据库和 教育目的。该项目的第一个目标是增加和清理1850年的原始转录 人口普查，增加省略变量，提高数据质量。第二个目标是转变这些 增强转录为适合统计分析的数据，并将其与现有数据集成 明尼苏达州人口中心分发的收藏品。 旧的人口普查数据并不具有纯粹的历史意义；它们是基础社会研究和 政策分析。基于历史经验的模型和描述构成了这两种过去理论的基础 改变和对未来的预测。这些数据为经济学研究提供了独特的实验室。 和人口统计过程。这种经验基础对于检验社会和经济是必不可少的 理论。这个数据库与NIH作为医疗和医疗管理人员的中心任务直接相关 国家行为研究：新数据将促进对自然界和 人类种群动态的行为。这一基础设施将刺激与健康相关的研究 人口增长和流动、生育率、死亡率和婚姻率以及经济和社会 人口统计行为的关联性。 1