Carolina Population Center

项目总结/摘要 卡罗莱纳人口中心请求基础设施支持，以推进人口动态研究 通过提高研究影响力，创新和生产力，支持初级教育的发展， 科学家，减轻科学家的行政负担。基础设施支持将推动科学发展， 三个主要研究领域：性、生殖、生育和家庭;人口、健康和家庭。 环境;不平等，流动性，差异和福祉。CPC的大部分研究都借鉴了 我们的教师设计和收集的大型公开纵向数据集，包括 全国青少年至成人健康纵向研究，中国健康与营养调查，更新 与转移项目有关的调查，以及海啸后果和恢复的研究， 在未来五年，这将继续对我们的主要研究领域的工作至关重要。 这些项目体现了自该中心成立以来指导该中心研究的几个主题。这些 主题，这将继续塑造我们的工作，是生命过程的重要性和纵向 数据，多层次的过程和测量的背景下，干预和自然实验作为手段， 了解因果过程，以及年龄、性别、种族等社会人口变量的相关性， 种族和社会经济地位造成健康和福祉方面的差异。通过嵌入这些主题， 项目提供的数据使我们能够解决阻碍人口进步的障碍 科学一般，特别是在我们的主要研究领域。我们请求支持三个核心， 结合起来将提供一个机构基础设施，将推动人口动态研究向前发展 通过授权CPC教师使用最先进的测量技术来解决具有挑战性的问题， 方法.行政核心计划的活动，保持一个激励知识界， 简化行政程序，使科学家能够专注于研究，协调 核心，以便有效地提供服务，并更多地传达有关研究和数据的信息 大致上发展核心支持早期阶段的研究人员和其他教师与令人兴奋的新想法 通过多种机制：讲习班、获得计量方面的技术专门知识和种子赠款。 研究服务核心使科学家能够解决复杂和重要的人口研究问题 通过提供最先进的研究工具和专业支持， 发展和分析。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Carolina Population Center requests infrastructure support that will advance population dynamics research at CPC by increasing research impact, innovation, and productivity, supporting the development of junior scientists, and reducing the administrative burden on scientists. Infrastructure support will advance science in three primary research areas: Sexuality, Reproduction, Fertility, and Families; Population, Health, and the Environment; and Inequality, Mobility, Disparities, and Well-Being. Much of the research at CPC draws on large publicly available longitudinal data sets that our faculty have designed and collected, including the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the China Health and Nutrition Survey, newer surveys associated with the Transfer Project, and the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery, all of which will continue to be important in work related to our primary research areas over the next five years. These projects embody several themes that have guided research at CPC since the Center's inception. These themes, which will continue to shape our work, are the importance of life course processes and longitudinal data, multi-level processes and measurement of context, interventions and natural experiments as means of learning about causal processes, and the relevance of sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, race- ethnicity, and socioeconomic status for disparities in health and well-being. By embedding these themes, our projects provide data that enable us to address barriers that otherwise impede progress in the population sciences generally, and in our primary research areas in particular. We request support for three cores which in combination will provide an institutional infrastructure that will push populations dynamics research forward by empowering CPC faculty to tackle challenging questions using state of the art measurement techniques and methods. The Administrative Core plans activities that maintain a stimulating intellectual community, streamlines administrative processes so that scientists can focus on research, coordinates activities of the Cores so that services are offered efficiently, and communicates information about research and data more broadly. The Development Core supports early stage investigators and other faculty with exciting new ideas through multiple mechanisms: workshops, access to technical expertise in measurement, and seed grants. The Research Services Core enables scientists to address complex and important population research issues by providing access to state-of-the-art research tools and professional support for programming, survey development, and analysis.