North Atlantic Population Project

描述(申请人提供)：本申请寻求资金，以扩大和改善北大西洋人口计划(NAPP)的数据库。Napp是八个领先的数据生产者的独特合作，他们利用资源创建了一个非凡的跨国历史数据库。在过去四年中，合作伙伴清理、编辑、编码、协调和传播了描述五个国家人口基本人口特征的近9000万条记录。这些数据包括1881年英国和加拿大的全部人口，1870年、1880年和1901年的冰岛，1865年和1900年的挪威，以及1880年的美国。这些是可用于学术研究的唯一完整的国家微观数据，对于研究小地区和人口亚群来说，它们是一个非凡的资源。这一基本的社会科学基础设施已经在推动对经济发展和人口变化进行广泛的比较研究。为了挖掘这些数据的研究潜力，我们现在提议：(1)通过纳入每个国家其他人口普查年的数据并增加瑞典的数据，扩大数据库的时间和地理维度；(2)协调将人口普查之间的个人联系起来的国家项目，以便进行纵向分析；(3)改进国家行动方案变量、数据编辑、文件编制和网上传播工具。19世纪和20世纪初，北大西洋世界人口的多个横截面的出现将在历史、经济学、人口学和社会学领域开辟广阔的新领域。此外，相关样本有望最终解决社会和经济史上一些持续时间最长的争论。学者们将能够比以往更可靠地衡量社会和地理流动的趋势和差异，以及地理和经济流动的相互关系。扩展的NAPP数据库与NIH作为国家医学和行为研究管理者的核心使命直接相关：NAPP将促进关于人类种群动态的性质和行为的基本知识。这一基础设施将推进有关人口增长和流动、生育率、死亡率和残疾的健康相关研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks funding to expand and improve the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) database. NAPP is a unique collaboration of eight leading data producers who have leveraged resources to create an extraordinary cross-national historical database. Over the past four years, the collaborating partners have cleaned, edited, coded, harmonized, and disseminated almost 90 million records describing basic demographic characteristics of the populations of five countries. These data include the entire population of Britain and Canada in 1881, Iceland in 1870, 1880, and 1901, Norway in 1865 and 1900, and the United States in 1880. These are the only complete-count national microdata available for scholarly research, and they represent an extraordinary resource for the study of small areas and population subgroups. This fundamental social science infrastructure is already stimulating broad-based comparative investigations of economic development and demographic change. To exploit the research potential of these data, we now propose: (1) expanding the chronological and geographic dimension of the database by incorporating data from additional census years for each country and adding data from Sweden; (2) coordinating national projects to link individuals between censuses, which will permit longitudinal analysis; and (3) improving NAPP variables, data editing, documentation, and web- based dissemination tools. The availability of multiple cross-sections for the population of the North Atlantic world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries will open up vast new terrain in the fields of history, economics, demography, and sociology. In addition, linked samples hold the promise of finally resolving some of the longest-running debates in social and economic history. Scholars will be able to gauge trends and differentials of social and geographic mobility and the interrelationship of geographic and economic movement far more reliably than heretofore. The expanded NAPP database is directly relevant to the central mission of the NIH as the steward of medical and behavioral research for the nation: NAPP will advance fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of human population dynamics. This basic infrastructure will advance health-related research on population growth and movement, fertility, mortality, and disability.