Maryland Population Research Center

项目总结 该应用程序要求NICHD人口研究基础设施连续第四个五年周期 为马里兰大学(UMD)马里兰人口研究中心(MPRC)提供项目支持。 MPRC是马里兰大学-学院公园的一个跨学科中心，支持这项研究 来自6所不同的学校或学院和16个系的82名人口研究人员。在接下来的五年里- 在本年度期间，MPRC将支持性别、家庭和社会变革、社会和社会变革等主要研究领域 经济不平等、社会背景下的健康以及移徙和移民进程，并将支持 在这些实质性领域的人口研究数据和方法方面的创新。这项支持将是 由三个核心提供，这三个核心对提高人口科学研究的速度和影响至关重要： 行政、科学技术和发展。他们的任务是满足基础设施需求 培养跨学科的智力环境，促进人口科学发展 初级和代表性不足的少数族裔学者在人口研究中的地位。行政核心将支持 准备赠款申请、授标后项目管理，并将协助其他核心。它将部署 基于Web的工具来增强中心的活动，并将为学者提供管理研究的有效手段 合作和传播研究。科学和技术核心将管理计算 资源，提供机密数据访问，包括全国青少年至成人健康调查，以及 将提供统计计算短期课程和咨询，所有这些都是以经验为重点的至关重要的支持 人口研究。核心还将使用受限的数据访问来扩展员工的研究 联邦统计机构通过参与领导和赞助关于数据使用的研讨会 在内部，新的联邦统计研究数据中心(FSRDC)最近在UMD成立。这个 Development Core将通过种子资助促进UMD人口研究的智慧型社区 通过组织每周一系列的研讨会、研讨会以及组织和共同赞助 会议和座谈会。核心还支持常驻人口科学家和访问人口 科学家计划，为人口研究人员提供主要的机构和物质家园 永久和临时驻扎在UMD。利用我们在华盛顿特区的地理位置， MPRC将通过链接到联邦研究和数据活动来促进我们同事的研究 华盛顿特区各机构，包括按时支助两年期讲习班和会议 使用美国时间使用调查及其国际对应调查进行的研究。基础设施 对数据收集的支持包括对印度人类发展的大规模调查研究 从调查到关于特拉华州和其他地区妇女生殖健康的较小规模的数据收集 向内罗毕的低收入单身母亲提供亲属支持。

PROJECT SUMMARY This application requests a fourth consecutive five-year cycle of NICHD Population Research Infrastructure Program support to the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC) at the University of Maryland (UMD). The MPRC is an interdisciplinary center at the University of Maryland-College Park that supports the research of 82 population researchers across 6 different schools or colleges and 16 departments. Over the next five- year period, MPRC will support the Primary Research Areas of Gender, Family, and Social Change, Social and Economic Inequality, Health in Social Context, and Migration and Immigrant Processes, and will support innovations in data and methods for population research across these substantive areas. This support will be provided by three cores that are central to increasing the pace and impact of population science research: Administrative, Scientific and Technical, and Development. Their missions are to meet the infrastructure needs of population scientists, to foster an interdisciplinary intellectual environment, and to promote the development of junior and underrepresented minority scholars in population research. The Administrative core will support the preparation of grant applications, post-award project management, and will assist other cores. It will deploy web-based tools to enhance Center activities and will provide scholars effective means of managing research collaborations and disseminating research. The Scientific and Technical Core will manage the computing resources, provide confidential data access including the National Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health, and will provide statistical computing short courses and consulting, all vitally supporting empirically-focused population research. The Core will also expand associates’ research using restricted data access across the federal statistics agencies by participation in the leadership of, and sponsoring symposia on the use of data within, the new Federal Statistics Research Data Center (FSRDC) recently established at UMD. The Development Core will promote the intellectual community of population research at UMD through seed grant programs and by organizing a weekly seminar series, workshops, and by organizing and co-sponsoring conferences and symposia. The Core also supports resident population scientist and visiting population scientist programs that provide a primary institutional and physical home for population researchers permanently and temporarily based at UMD. Taking advantage of our location in the Washington, DC area, MPRC will promote the research of our associates through linking to the research and data activities of federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., including through support to biennial workshops and conferences on time use research using the American Time Use Survey and its international counterpart surveys. Infrastructural support for data collection encompasses the large-scale survey research of the India Human Development Survey through to smaller-scale data collections on the reproductive health among women in Delaware and on kin support to low-income single mothers in Nairobi.