Archiving Nuptiality Pandemic Data

摘要 尽管受到COVID-19大流行的影响，国家层面的缓解政策各不相同，但它引发了许多 对许多生活领域的影响仍然未知，包括健康和福祉， 美国家庭需要更动态和及时的数据来跟踪美国人如何应对 大流行病由于结婚和离婚人口动态统计系统的恶化和资金枯竭， 每月的州级婚姻和离婚数据不能从一个来源以便于分析的格式获得 在前所未有的时刻削弱了我们理解婚姻和离婚地理差异的能力， 世界历史。虽然一些卫生和生命统计数据的提供已在全世界普及， 在这场危机中，关于大流行对婚姻行为影响的高质量数据还无法获得，更不用说 跟上步伐。现有的调查数据，如通过美国社区调查收集的数据， 由于低应答率和高无应答偏倚而受损。此外，他们没有提供月度数据。 没有任何一个中心或机构负责提供每月的婚姻管理数据， 离婚在国家层面呼吁注意结构性决定因素的影响（例如，政治的，法律的，政策， 在国家一级，来自几个组成团体。尽管它的重要性备受瞩目 州一级的，及时的数据，以及个人研究人员填补这一空白的努力，动态的时间和空间 自2020年3月以来，疫情如何影响婚姻和离婚模式的变化仍然未知。 我们的目标是继续我们过去在行政婚姻和离婚数据存档方面的努力， 这些努力是为了存档每月的州一级婚姻和离婚人数，计算每月调整的婚姻， 和离婚率，并以可广泛获取的方式传播这些数据， 由更广泛的研究社区，项目工作人员和从业者社区。这些努力将使 研究人员将婚姻和离婚数据与现有数据联系起来-这是该计划的一个特定目的 公告我们的第三个也是最后一个目标是通过国家家庭和家庭中心传播数据。 婚姻研究和人口统计研究数据共享网站。传播将增加 许多潜在的数据使用者对这些有价值的数据的认识。这一创新项目完全符合 家庭数据库的使命是加强关于家庭和住户的知识和数据的提供。这反过来又是 预计将通过增加现有数据和增加其潜在的科学影响， 可及性和效率。本申请符合R 03机制的目的， 计划宣布，并将提供一个资源，以多学科的研究人员，政策制定者， 从业者

Abstract Despite the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the varying state-level mitigation policies it triggered much remains unknown regarding the effects on a multitude of life domains, including the health and well-being of American families. There is a need for more dynamic and timely data to track how Americans are responding to the pandemic. Due to the deterioration and defunding of the marriage and divorce vital statistics system, recent monthly state-level marriage and divorce data are not available from one source in analysis-friendly formats crippling our capacity to understand geographic variation in marriage and divorce at an unprecedented time in world history. While the availability of some health and vital statistics data has become widespread throughout this crisis, high-quality data on the pandemic effects on marriage behavior have not been accessible, let alone kept pace. Existing survey data, such as that collected via the American Community Survey has been compromised due to low response rates and high nonresponse bias. Further, they do not provide monthly data. No centralized location or agency is responsible for providing monthly administrative data on marriage and divorce at the state level. Calls for attention on the effects of structural determinants (e.g., political, legal, policy, and economic) at the state-level have come from several constituent groups. Despite the spotlighted importance of state-level, timely data, and efforts of individual researchers to fill this gap, dynamic temporal, and spatial variation in how the pandemic has affected marriage and divorce patterns since March of 2020 remain unknown. Our objective is to continue our past efforts in archiving administrative marriages and divorce data and expand those efforts to archive monthly state-level marriage and divorce counts, compute monthly adjusted marriage and divorce rates at the state-level and disseminate these data in widely accessible manner enabling the usage by the broader research community, program staff, and practitioner communities. These efforts will enable researchers to link marriage and divorce data to existing data—a specifical designated purpose of this program announcement. Our third and final aim will be to disseminate the data via the National Center for Family & Marriage Research and the Data Sharing for Demographic Research websites. The dissemination will increase awareness of these valuable data across many potential data users. This innovative project fits squarely with the PDB mission to enhance knowledge and data availability on families and households. This, in turn, is expected to enhance currently available data and increase their potential scientific impact through increased accessibility and efficiency. The application is consistent with the purpose of the R03 mechanism and this specific program announcement and will offer a resource to a multidisciplinary set of researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.