Transient Domesticity and Drugs: Ethnography Informs a Nationwide Analysis

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请进一步深入研究药物对内城非裔美国人家庭家庭关系的影响，并使用人口统计分析将这项工作扩展到全国范围。毒品与许多社会问题有牵连。最近的人种学研究已经确定了他们与内城不稳定的男女伴侣关系（或短暂的不稳定性）的联系。家庭是儿童发展的基石。了解和解决造成伙伴关系不稳定的因素，可以改善家庭功能，从而改善这些家庭中儿童的生活机会。以前的人口统计学研究没有分析这种现象，由于缺乏丰富的概念性理解的行为，并由于有限的可用数据。2001年收入和方案参与情况调查小组对家庭关系的数据作了很大改进，该小组是人口普查局在四年内跟踪的一个具有全国代表性的大规模家庭抽样。根据最新的审查意见，第二次重新提交的文件提供了关于如何完成每项任务的更详细的信息，并对任务进行了更明确的解释和整合。本研究有两个目的：目的A.使用专门开发的调查模块分析非法药物对伙伴关系的影响。AIM B。使用全国代表性样本（SIPP），测量与短暂性不稳定性相关的合作模式与较富裕、城市化程度较低、非非洲裔美国人以及纽约市以外的群体之间的普遍模式不同（或相似）的程度。在研究过程中，该项目将开发和现场SIPP药物模块。目前参加民族志研究的100多名受试者的回应将创建一个人行横道，支持正在进行的民族志工作与人口统计分析专业的结果三角测量。 公共卫生相关性：最近的人种学研究已经确定了毒品和不稳定的女性-男性在市中心的合作伙伴之间的联系，我们称之为短暂的不稳定性的现象。不稳定的市中心家庭给国家的医疗保健、社会服务和刑事司法系统带来了不成比例的负担。此外，这些贫困家庭是公共卫生和其他社会问题不断出现的主要场所，后代将被社会化以重现这些问题。拟议的项目将提供全国暂时性精神分裂症患病率的初步指标;确定种族/民族、城市化和经济情况的变化;并提出可能涉及药物使用的程度问题。最重要的是，该项目将开发和试点测试一个SIPP药物模块，当在全国范围内部署时，可以明确衡量药物和短暂性心律失常之间的关系。 这项研究应证明是了解问题的性质、位置和程度的核心，可能导致今后的跟踪改进。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application furthers ongoing research into the impact of drugs on domestic relationships in inner-city African American households and extends that work nationwide using demographic analyses. Drugs have been implicated in numerous social problems. Recent ethnographic research has identified their linkage to unstable female-male partnering (or transient domesticity) in the inner city. The family is the bedrock for child development. Understanding and addressing factors contributing to partnership instability could improve household functioning and thereby improve the life chances of children in these families. Prior demographic research has not analyzed this phenomenon due to a lack of a rich conceptual understanding of the behavior and due to limitations of available data. Data on household relationships were greatly improved with the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a large nationally representative sample of households followed over four years by the Census Bureau. In response to the latest reviewer comments, this second resubmission provides greater detail as to how each task will be completed and a clearer explanation and integration of the tasks. This study has two aims: AIM A. To analyze the impact that illicit drugs have on partnership relationships using a specially developed survey module. AIM B. To measure the extent that the partnering patterns associated with transient domesticity differ from (or are similar to) those prevailing among groups that are wealthier, less urban, not African American, and beyond New York City, using a nationally-representative sample (the SIPP). In the course of the study, the project will develop and field a SIPP Drugs Module. Responses by over 100 subjects currently enrolled in an ethnographic study will create a crosswalk supporting triangulation of findings from ongoing ethnographic work with the demographic analyses pro. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Recent ethnographic research has identified a linkage between drugs and unstable female-male partnering in the inner city, a phenomenon we refer to as transient domesticity. Unstable inner-city households disproportionately burden the nation's health care, social service, and criminal justice systems. Moreover, these distressed households are a primary location in which public health and other social problems continuously arise and where future generations will be socialized to reproduce these problems. The proposed project will provide initial indications of the prevalence of transient domesticity across the nation; identify the variation with race/ethnicity, urbanicity and economic circumstances; and raise questions about the extent that drug use may be involved. Most importantly, the project will develop and pilot test a SIPP Drugs Module that when fielded nationwide could explicitly measure the relationship between drugs and transient domesticity. This research should prove central to understanding the nature, location and extent of the problem possibly leading to tracking improvements in the future.