Integrating Information about Aging Surveys

摘要 此续订申请的目标是继续并增强我们当前的项目--全球门户 老龄化数据(g2aging.org)，一个为促进纵向和跨国而开发的数据和信息平台 对老龄化的分析，特别是使用世界各地的健康和退休研究家族(HRS)的分析。 该网关已对30个国家的12项调查的元数据编制了索引，并创建了11,540个关键协调 人口、健康、医疗保健、认知、金融和住房财富、收入、消费、 养老金、退休、就业历史和家庭结构，支持跨波、跨国搜索和 分析。我们现在有1,486名注册用户，另外还有165名非注册用户 访问我们网站的国家/地区。总共有69,529次会议，总共浏览了593,107页。 在开发Gateway之前，有几个障碍限制了跨波HRS家庭调查的使用 和越野研究。这些问题包括难以识别一致性信息、需要 合并多个数据文件、分散的文档以及对可用内容缺乏了解。这个 Gateway使跨时间和跨国家/地区的HRS家庭调查的分析变得更加容易，从而降低了 为新的研究人员提供入门服务，为有经验的研究人员节省时间和精力。我们的协调数据集 使用户能够更准确、更轻松、更快速地构建分析数据集，从而生成平均时间 为我们的用户每个项目节省8周。我们的注册用户在过去两年中发表了227篇论文， 甚至更多的用户报告使用Gateway进行课程工作、会议演示和工作 学术出版物论文。在本申请中，我们的目标是加入额外的纵向、协调 提供巨大的科学前景并经常被用户要求的变量，特别是那些 生物标志物、残疾、养老金财富和退休激励、社会联系和孤立， 心理社会，对死者的近亲访谈，以及生活史访谈。我们还寻求技术上的 数据结构和可视化方面的进步。我们已经制定了更积极的外展战略， 这项申请，包括组织关于越野的事前/事后会议和方法讲习班 分析；协调研讨会；通过用户研讨会和网络研讨会培训用户；建立积极和 通过社交媒体吸引用户社区；继续通过展品传播；以及为用户提供 通过我们的服务台提供支持。拟议的工作将改善我们提供的信息和数据，并 降低使用HRS家庭调查进行纵向或跨国研究的门槛，受益 更大的研究社区。退出数据和生活历史数据，以及其他关键变量，如 心理社会变量，从来没有被协调过。整合这些新数据将加快 在研究较少的领域的科学发现，并提供了巨大的科学前景。

Abstract The goal of this renewal application is to continue and to enhance our current project, the Gateway to Global Aging Data (g2aging.org), a data and information platform developed to facilitate longitudinal and cross-country analyses on aging, especially those using the family of Health and Retirement Studies (HRS) around the world. The Gateway has indexed metadata from 12 surveys in 30 countries and has created 11,540 key harmonized variables on demographics, health, health care, cognition, financial and housing wealth, income, consumption, pension, retirement, employment history, and family structure, enabling cross-wave, cross-country search and analysis. We now have 1,486 registered users, in addition to numerous non-registered users from 165 countries who visit our site. Cumulatively, there have been 69,529 sessions, viewing a total of 593,107 pages. Prior to development of the Gateway, several barriers limited the use of HRS-family surveys for cross-wave and cross-country research. These included the difficulty of identifying concordance information, the need to merge multiple data files, dispersed documentation, and the lack of knowledge of what is available. The Gateway makes analyses of HRS-family surveys across time and countries much easier, lowering the costs of entry for new researchers and saving time and effort for experienced researchers. Our harmonized datasets have enabled users to build analysis datasets more accurately, easily, and quickly, generating an average time savings of 8 weeks per project for our users. Our registered users published 227 papers in the past two years, and even more users reported using the Gateway for their course work, conference presentations, and working papers for academic publications. In this application, we aim to incorporate additional longitudinal, harmonized variables which offer great scientific promise and are often requested by users, specifically those on biomarkers, disability, pension wealth and incentives to retire, social connectedness and isolation, psychosocial, next-of-kin interviews for the deceased, and life-history interviews. We also seek technological advancements in data structure and visualizations. We have developed a more aggressive outreach strategy in this application, including organizing pre/post conferences and methodological workshops on cross-country analysis; coordinating symposia; training users through user workshops and webinars; building an active and engaged user community through social media; continuing to disseminate through exhibits; and providing user support through our help desk. The proposed work will improve the information and the data we provide and lower the barriers to conducting longitudinal or cross-country research using HRS-family surveys, benefiting the larger research community. Exit data and life-history data, as well as other key variables, such as psychosocial variables, have never been harmonized. Incorporating these new data will expedite the speed of scientific discoveries in less-researched areas and offers great scientific promise.