Integrated Samples of Latin American Censuses

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案寻求继续资助，以发展和支持一个庞大的大型微观数据档案，这些数据来自过去半个世纪以来在23个拉丁美洲国家进行的100多次人口普查。这些数据是公共使用综合微数据系列的重要组成部分，是人口和健康研究最广泛使用的来源之一。拉丁美洲是唯一保存了几乎所有国家几十年来微观数据的地区。经过改进和扩大的数据库将使调查人员能够对整个半球50年的变革性变化进行比较，并将对经济发展、生育率和死亡率下降、国际移徙和家庭变化之间的相互关系进行大量新的健康相关研究。拉丁美洲微观数据档案是对世界人口研究基础设施的永久和重大贡献。通过使研究人员容易获得这些数据并编制全面和可理解的文件，该项目正在刺激超越国界和静态解释的新研究。该项目有四个主要目标：(1)扩展数据库，增加四个新国家的数据，为数据库中目前存在的国家添加新的2010轮样本，并对几个现有样本进行新的高密度版本。(2)加强数据和元数据，包括新的地理编码，以更好地支持一致的跨国家和跨时间分析，新的基于住房特征的国际可比生活水平指数，以及新的变量，以允许更精确的方差估计。(3)通过实施新的数据库结构、创新的元数据工具和多种新功能来改善数据基础设施和访问，以简化数据操作和减少研究人员的冗余工作。(4)通过用户支持、培训和推广，以及实施新计划，确保数据和元数据的长期保存，确保传播和可持续性。这一基础设施是卫生研究和政策分析的基本资源。对过去的模型和描述是过去社会变化理论和对未来预测的基础。因此，该数据系列为研究保健和人口进程提供了一个独特的实验室，并为我们开发和检验社会和经济模型提供了经验基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks continuation funding to develop and support a vast archive of large-scale micro-data drawn from over 100 censuses of 23 Latin American countries enumerated over the past half century. These data are a vital component of the Integrated Public Use Micro-data Series (IPUMS), one of the most intensively-used sources for population and health research. Latin America is the only region with surviving micro-data for virtually every country over multiple decades. The improved and expanded database will allow investigators to make comparisons across an entire hemisphere during five decades of transformative change, and will result in substantial new health-related research on the interrelationships of economic development, fertility and mortality decline, international migration, and family change. The Latin American micro-data archive represents a permanent and substantial contribution to the world's population research infrastructure. By making these data easily accessible to researchers and developing comprehensive and comprehensible documentation, the project is stimulating new research that transcends national boundaries and static interpretation. The project has four major goals: (1) Expand the database, adding data for four new countries, new 2010 round samples for countries currently in the database, and new higher-density versions of several existing samples. (2) Enhance data and metadata, including new geographic coding to better support consistent cross- national and cross-temporal analysis, a new internationally-comparable living standard index based on housing characteristics, and new variables to allow more precise variance estimation. (3) Improve data infrastructure and access by implementing a novel database structure, innovative new metadata tools, and multiple new capabilities to simplify data manipulation and reduce redundant effort by researchers. (4) Ensure dissemination and sustainability through user support, training, and outreach, and implementation of a new plan to ensure long-run preservation of the data and metadata. This infrastructure is a basic resource for health research and policy analysis. Models and descriptions of the past underlie both theories of past social change and projections into the future. Accordingly, the data series provides a unique laboratory for the study of health and demographic processes, and provides the empirical foundation we need for developing and testing social and economic models.