Maryland Population Research Center

项目概要 该申请要求 NICHD 人口研究连续第四个五年周期 为马里兰州人口研究中心 (MPRC) 提供的基础设施计划支持 马里兰大学（UMD）。 MPRC 是英国大学的一个跨学科中心 马里兰大学公园支持 8 个地区 96 名人口研究人员的研究 不同的学校或学院以及 20 个系。在未来五年内，MPRC 将 支持性别、家庭和社会变革、社会健康等主要研究领域 背景、社会和经济不平等、移民和移民进程，以及意愿 支持这些实质性人口研究数据和方法的创新 地区。这种支持将由三个核心提供，这三个核心对于加快步伐和 人口科学研究的影响：行政、科学和技术以及 发展。他们的使命是满足人口科学家的基础设施需求， 营造跨学科的智力环境，促进青少年发展 人口研究中少数族裔学者的代表性不足。行政核心将 支持赠款申请的准备、赠款后项目管理，并将协助 其他核心。它将部署基于网络的工具来加强中心的活动，并为学者提供 管理研究合作和传播研究的有效手段。科学的 技术核心将管理计算资源，提供机密数据访问 包括全国青少年至成人健康调查，并将提供统计数据 计算短期课程和咨询，所有这些都为注重经验的人群提供了重要支持 研究。该核心还将利用受限制的数据访问来扩展同事的研究 联邦统计机构通过参与领导和主办研讨会 最近，新的联邦统计普查研究数据中心 (RDC) 内的数据使用 成立于马里兰大学。发展核心将促进知识界的发展 马里兰大学通过种子资助计划和组织每周研讨会进行人口研究 系列、专家研讨会和工作组，以及共同主办会议和 研讨会。核心还支持常驻人口科学家和访问人口科学家 为人口研究人员提供主要机构和物质家园的计划 永久和临时驻扎在马里兰大学。充分利用我们在 华盛顿特区，MPRC 将通过链接到 华盛顿特区联邦机构的研究和数据活动，包括通过 支持两年一度的关于使用美国时间的时间使用研究的研讨会和会议 使用调查及其国际同行调查。数据收集的基础设施支持 包括印度人类发展调查的大规模调查研究 特拉华州妇女生殖健康的小规模数据收集 为内罗毕的低收入单亲母亲提供亲属支持。

PROJECT SUMMARY This application requests a fourth consecutive five-year cycle of NICHD Population Research Infrastructure Program support to the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC) at the University of Maryland (UMD). The MPRC is an interdisciplinary center at the University of Maryland-College Park that supports the research of 96 population researchers across 8 different schools or colleges and 20 departments. Over the next fiveyear period, MPRC will support the Primary Research Areas of Gender, Family, and Social Change, Health in Social Context, Social and Economic Inequality, and Migration and Immigrant Processes, and will support innovations in data and methods for population research across these substantive areas. This support will be provided by three cores that are central to increasing the pace and impact of population science research: Administrative, Scientific and Technical, and Development. Their missions are to meet the infrastructure needs of population scientists, to foster an interdisciplinary intellectual environment, and to promote the development of junior and underrepresented minority scholars in population research. The Administrative core will support the preparation of grant applications, post-award project management, and will assist other cores. It will deploy web-based tools to enhance Center activities and will provide scholars effective means of managing research collaborations and disseminating research. The Scientific and Technical Core will manage the computing resources, provide confidential data access including the National Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health, and will provide statistical computing short courses and consulting, all vitally supporting empirically-focused population research. The Core will also expand associates’ research using restricted data access across the federal statistics agencies by participation in the leadership of, and sponsoring symposia on the use of data within, the new Federal Statistics Census Research Data Center (RDC) recently established at UMD. The Development Core will promote the intellectual community of population research at UMD through seed grant programs and by organizing a weekly seminar series, specialist workshops and working groups, and by cosponsoring conferences and symposia. The Core also supports resident population scientist and visiting population scientist programs that provide a primary institutional and physical home for population researchers permanently and temporarily based at UMD. Taking advantage of our location in the Washington, DC area, MPRC will promote the research of our associates through linking to the research and data activities of federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., including through support to biennial workshops and conferences on time use research using the American Time Use Survey and its international counterpart surveys. Infrastructural support for data collection encompasses the large-scale survey research of the India Human Development Survey through to smaller-scale data collections on the reproductive health among women in Delaware and on kin support to low-income single mothers in Nairobi.