Infrastructure for the Office of Population Research

 描述（申请人提供）：人口研究办公室力求通过实现以下目标，在其杰出的人口研究的悠久历史的基础上再接再厉：促进普林斯顿大学和其他机构的人口研究人员之间的跨学科合作;促进青年科学家的发展，创造跨级别和跨学科合作的机会;为人口研究开发新的方法和数据;将来自相关领域的新知识纳入人口研究，扩大人口科学家调查的主题范围;并将OPR开发的数据，方法和资源传播给全国和世界各地的人口研究人员。OPR的研究现在有六个研究领域：（1）生物社会相互作用，（2）健康和福祉，（3）移民和发展，（4）儿童和家庭，（5）教育和分层，（6）数据和方法。核心基础设施计划的每个要素都将提高OPR研究活动的质量，生产力和创新。行政核心将通过Notestein系列研讨会支持智力互动，并将主要通过提供重要服务，包括赠款准备和管理，支持个人研究助理。科学核心由三个部分组成：计算核心、统计核心和信息核心。计算和统计核心将通过维护最先进的计算基础设施、提供统计和计量经济学咨询以及增加对数据源的访问来支持个人研究。这些核心还将为OPR同事，研究人员，学生和博士后研究员提供技术培训和研讨会。信息核心将支持个人研究助理，帮助他们识别和检索学术出版物和数据，并将支持整个人口社区，继续建立和维护唐纳德·E·科尔人口研究收藏。斯托克斯图书馆，世界上最大的人口学图书馆。“发展核心”将促进跨学科研究，培养知识界。公共基础设施核心力求向世界各地的人口研究人员传播人口政策办公室管理的数据集，编写研究简报，向一般读者介绍脆弱家庭研究的结果，编辑和传播《儿童的未来》杂志，并维持紧急避孕网站。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): OPR seeks to build on its long history of distinguished demographic research by achieving the following: to foster interdisciplinary collaboration among population researchers at Princeton and other institutions; to promote the development of young scientists and the creation of opportunities for collaboration across ranks and disciplines; to develop new methods and data for population research; to incorporate new knowledge from allied fields into demographic research and expanding the array of topics investigated by population scientists; and to disseminate data, methods, and resources developed at OPR to population researchers throughout the nation and the world. Research at OPR is now characterized by six research areas: (1) biosocial interactions, (2) health and wellbeing, (3) migration and development, (4) children and families, (5) education and stratification, and (6) data and methods. Each element of the core infrastructure program will advance the quality, productivity, and innovation of OPR's research activities. The Administrative Core will support intellectual interaction through the Notestein Seminar Series and will support individual research associates primarily by providing vital services, including grant preparation and management. The Scientific Core consists of three components: The Computing Core, The Statistics Core and The Information Core. The Computing and Statistics Cores will support individual research by maintaining a state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, by providing statistical and econometric consulting, and by increasing access to data sources. These Cores will also offer technical training and workshops for OPR associates, researchers, students and postdoctoral fellows. The Information Core will support individual research associates by helping them identify and retrieve scholarly publications and data and will support the entire population community by continuing to build and maintain the Ansley J. Coale Population Research Collection in the Donald E. Stokes Library, the largest demography library in the world. The Development Core will promote interdisciplinary research and foster an intellectual community. The Public Infrastructure Core seeks to disseminate OPR-managed datasets to population researchers throughout the world, to produce Research Briefs that describe findings from the Fragile Families Study to a general audience, to edit and disseminate the journal of The Future of Children, and to maintain the Emergency Contraception Website.