Archiving Three Waves of the National Survey of Families and Households

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目建议评估、处理、组织和准备全国家庭和家庭调查（NSFH）项目网站（http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/）上的所有公共使用数据和文件文件，然后将其存档在国家老龄化计算机数据档案馆（NACDA）、大学间政治和社会研究联盟（ICPSR）、以及威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的数据和信息服务中心（DISC）。数据评估和存档准备过程将根据大学间政治和社会研究联盟（ICPSR）出版的《社会科学数据准备和存档指南：整个数据生命周期的最佳实践》第5版（http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/deposit/dataprep.pdf）中描述的指南系统地进行。NSFH的所有三波数据和文件文件都将按照档案标准进行检查、处理和准备，以便保存和传播。此外，该项目将生成数据文档倡议（DDI） XML文档文件，开发人员可以利用这些文档文件构建用于NSFH数据发现和在线分析的新工具。为了响应许多研究人员的请求，该项目将根据第三波受访者的地址创建一个地理编码文件。来自三波NSFH的地理编码文件将作为限制使用的数据集存放在ICPSR。想要使用地理编码数据的研究人员将需要通过一个严格的程序来访问ICPSR的受限数据。在与ICPSR达成协议存放受限制的地理编码文件之前，威斯康星大学的健康与老龄化人口统计中心（CDHA）将继续为希望将其地理级别上下文数据合并到NSFH数据文件而不直接访问地理编码数据的研究人员提供增值的地理合并服务。NSFH是美国著名的家庭生活纵向研究。这项研究是由国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所（NICHD）和国家老龄化研究所（NIA）资助的。在1987-1988年、1992-1994年和2001-2003年进行了三波调查。总共1450万美元的联邦赠款资金被授予NSFH现场调查加班。根据ICPSR的相关文献数据库（http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/biblio/series/00193/resources?sortBy= 1），自80年代末以来，已有1093篇学术出版物使用了NSFH的数据。NSFH是研究家庭生活安排、婚姻、同居、生育、父母关系、亲属接触、健康以及经济和心理健康的研究人员的丰富数据来源。将所有三波NSFH数据存档将保存这一重要的社会科学研究，并使当前和未来的研究人员更容易获得与美国家庭和家庭有关的问题

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project proposes to evaluate, process, organize and prepare all public-use data and documentation files at the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) project website (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/) and then to archive them in publicly- accessible archives at the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and the Data and Information Services Center (DISC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The process of data evaluation and preparation for archiving will be performed systematically according to the guidelines described in Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving: Best Practice throughout the Data Life Cycle, 5th edition (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/deposit/dataprep.pdf) published by the Inter- University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). All three waves of NSFH data and documentation files will be checked, processed and prepared in compliance with the archival standard for preservation and dissemination. In addition, this project will produce Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) XML documentation files, which can be utilized by developers to build new tools for data discovery and online analyses of the NSFH. In response to requests from many researchers, this project will create a geo-coded file based on the addresses of the respondents for wave 3. Geo-coded files from three waves of NSFH will be deposited at ICPSR as a restricted-use dataset. Researchers who want to use the geo-coded data will need go through a stringent procedure to access restricted data at ICPSR. Until arrangements can be made with ICPSR to deposit the restricted geo-coded files, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) at the University of Wisconsin will continue to provide a value-added geo-merge service to researchers who want to merge their geographical level contextual data to NSFH data file without directly accessing the geo-coded data. NSFH is a prominent longitudinal study on family life in the United States. The research was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Three waves of surveys were conducted in 1987-1988, 1992-1994 and 2001-2003. A total of $14.5 million in federal grant funds were awarded to field NSFH survey overtime. According to ICPSR's Related Literature Database (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/biblio/series/00193/resources?sortBy= 1), 1,093 scholarly publications have used NSFH data since the late 80s. NSFH is a rich data source for researchers studying family living arrangements, marriage, cohabitation, fertility, parenting relations, kin contact, health and economic and psychological well- being. Archiving all three waves of NSFH data will preserve this important social science study and make it more accessible to current and future researchers studying issues related to families and households in the U.S.