Archiving Three Waves of the National Survey of Families and Households

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目建议在全国家庭和住户调查（NSFH）项目网站（http：//www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/）上评估、处理、组织和准备所有公共使用的数据和文件，然后将其存档在国家老龄问题计算机化数据档案馆（NACDA）、大学间政治和社会研究联合会（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）的公共访问档案中。将根据大学间政治和社会研究联合会（ICPSR）发布的《社会科学数据准备指南》和《社会科学数据准备：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，系统地进行数据评价和归档准备过程。将按照保存和传播的档案标准检查、处理和准备所有三批国家森林论坛数据和文件档案。此外，该项目将产生数据文档计划（DDI）XML文档文件，开发人员可以利用这些文件来构建新的工具，用于NSFH的数据发现和在线分析。应许多研究人员的要求，该项目将根据wave 3的受访者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需要通过严格的程序才能访问ICPSR的受限数据。在与ICPSR达成协议以存款受限制的地理编码文件之前，威斯康星州大学的健康和老龄人口统计学中心（CDHA）将继续为那些希望将其地理水平上下文数据合并到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地理合并服务。NSFH是一项关于美国家庭生活的重要纵向研究。这项研究由国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所（NICHD）和国家老龄化研究所（NIA）资助。1987-1988年、1992-1994年和2001-2003年进行了三波调查。总共有1 450万美元的联邦赠款资金被授予实地NSFH调查加班费。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年代后期以来，已有1，093份学术出版物使用了NSFH数据。NSFH是研究家庭生活安排、婚姻、同居、生育、养育关系、亲属联系、健康以及经济和心理福祉的研究人员的丰富数据来源。NSFH的所有三波数据将保存这一重要的社会科学研究，并使其更容易为当前和未来的研究人员研究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.