Maryland Population Research Center

项目摘要 这项申请要求连续第四个五年周期的NICHD人口研究 基础设施项目支持位于马里兰州的马里兰州人口研究中心（MPRC） 马里兰州大学。该MPRC是一个跨学科的中心在大学的 马里兰大学公园，支持96个人口研究人员在8 不同的学校或学院和20个部门。在未来五年内，MPRC将 支持性别，家庭和社会变革，社会健康的主要研究领域 背景、社会和经济不平等以及移徙和移民进程， 支持在这些实质性领域进行人口研究的数据和方法创新 地区这一支持将由三个核心提供，这三个核心对加快 人口科学研究的影响：行政、科学和技术， 发展他们的任务是满足人口科学家的基础设施需求， 培养跨学科的知识环境，促进青少年的发展 少数民族学者在人口研究中的代表性不足。行政核心将 支持赠款申请的准备，奖后项目管理，并将协助 其他核心它将部署基于网络的工具，以加强中心的活动，并将为学者提供 管理研究合作和传播研究成果的有效手段。科学 和技术核心将管理计算资源，提供机密数据访问 包括全国青少年到成人健康调查，并将提供统计数据， 计算短期课程和咨询，所有这些都对以计算机为重点的人群提供了重要支持 research.核心还将扩大联营公司的研究使用限制数据访问， 联邦统计机构，参与领导和主办关于下列问题的专题讨论会： 最近，新的联邦统计普查研究数据中心（RDC）内部的数据使用 成立于UMD。发展核心将促进知识界的发展， 通过种子资助计划和组织每周一次的研讨会，在UMD进行人口研究 系列、专家讲习班和工作组，并共同主办各种会议， 专题讨论会。该中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理家园的计划 永久和暂时驻扎在UMD。利用我们的地理位置， 华盛顿特区，MPRC将通过与 华盛顿，华盛顿特区的联邦机构的研究和数据活动，包括通过 支持关于使用美国时间进行时间使用研究的两年期讲习班和会议 使用调查及其国际对应调查。数据收集的结构性支持 包括印度人类发展调查的大规模调查研究， 关于特拉华州妇女生殖健康的小规模数据收集， 向内罗毕低收入单身母亲提供亲属支助。

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.