Data Archiving and Dissemination for Comparative Population Science

项目摘要 对人类行为、社会经验和一般健康进行大规模的科学研究 人口构成了过去五十年数据创造投资的基石。因为来自 这些研究对于公共政策和项目的建设和评估至关重要， 为了保护人民的健康和福祉，NICHD将传播活动置于科学的高度优先地位， 这些工具大大扩展了这些数据的科学用途。这些传播努力的一个关键限制， 到目前为止，来自非美国人口的数据相对缺乏。传播严格的非美国人群 迫切需要数据资源来快速和容易地测试关键社会的外部有效性的广度， 行为和公共卫生调查结果。 我们利用NICHD对尼泊尔奇旺谷家庭研究（CVFS）的长期投资， 实现这一高度优先的目标。CVFS是一个优秀的比较数据资源，具有25年的 来自尼泊尔的小组研究，具有许多重要特征。首先，CVFS旨在复制 最好的纵向研究，如收入动态小组研究和英国家庭小组研究 调查.其次，它旨在衡量社区一级随着时间的推移而发生的变化，而不是 个人和家庭层面。第三，CVFS测量环境随时间的变化。四是 CVFS跟踪所有移民（个人和家庭），无论他们搬到哪里，并定期 用移民来刷新样本。最后，CVFS新收集了来自 所有家庭成员，所有儿童的血液贫血筛查，以及所有人的COVID-19中断数据 户虽然CVFS的内容最初侧重于家庭和生育率，但现在包括以下措施： 儿童和青少年健康等领域。因此，CVFS是研究NICHD的无与伦比的资源 优先事项 我们将改变对这一特殊资源的访问方式，重点是CVFS数据的使用， 为便于比较而专门设计的措施，建立新的数据档案以加快数据连接 和数据分析，构建新的学习工具，以及新的基于网络的分析工具。这些活动 专门用于提高CVFS与其他环境数据之间可比性的透明度 来帮助科学家进行这些比较。我们还将提高数据质量和用户体验， 这些多层次、25年、多主题数据的复杂性并不妨碍数据的使用。无与伦比 长期性、广度及其多层次（个人、家庭、社区）结构，CVFS是一个理想的 国际比较研究和模型测试资源，促进科学认识 许多高优先级的社会，行为和健康科学问题。

PROJECT SUMMARY The creation of large, scientific studies of human behavior, social experience, and health in the general population form the cornerstone of data creation investments of the past five decades. Because the data from these studies are essential for the construction and evaluation of public policies and programs to improve the health and wellbeing of the population, NICHD places a high scientific priority on dissemination activities and tools that significantly expand the scientific use of such data. A key limitation of these dissemination efforts, thus far, is a relative dearth of data from non-U.S. populations. Dissemination of rigorous non-U.S. population data resources are urgently needed to quickly and easily test the breadth of external validity of key social, behavioral, and public health findings. We leverage NICHD’s long-term investment in the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) in Nepal to achieve this high-priority objective. The CVFS is an excellent comparative data resource, featuring a 25-year panel study from Nepal with many important features. First, the CVFS was designed to replicate features from the best longitudinal studies, such as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the British Household Panel Survey. Second, it was designed to measure change over time in the community level, as opposed to the individual and household levels alone. Third, the CVFS measures environmental change over time. Fourth, the CVFS follows all migrants (both individuals and households), no matter where they move, and periodically refreshes the sample with in-migrants. Finally, the CVFS has newly collected saliva-based DNA samples from all family members, blood-based anemia screening for all children, and COVID-19 disruption data on all households. Though CVFS content originally focused on family and fertility, it now includes measures from domains such as child and adolescent health. The CVFS is thus an unparalleled resource for studying NICHD priorities. We will transform access to this special resource with changes focused on use of the CVFS data, measures specially designed to facilitate comparisons, construction of new data files to speed data linking and data analysis, construction of new learning tools, and new web-based analysis tools. The activities are specifically designed to improve the transparency of comparability between CVFS and data from other settings to assist scientists making these comparisons. We will also improve data quality and user experience so the complexity of these multilevel, 25-year, multi-topic data is not an obstacle to data use. Unmatched in longevity, breadth, and its multilevel (individual, household, community) structure, the CVFS is an ideal resource for international comparative research and model testing that advances the scientific understanding of many high-priority social, behavioral, and health science questions.