HRS Minority Sample Expansion Competitive Revision

描述(由申请人提供)：这是健康和退休研究(HRS)17-22年的竞争性延续建议。我们建议继续收集上次更新中提出的稳定状态设计的核心数据，包括在2010年增加一个新的队列；以我们关于痴呆症患病率的分研究为基础，检查发病率；增加生物样本的收集，包括DNA和心理社会内容；以及继续使用关于特别专题的邮寄调查，包括继续纵向测量约一半样本的消耗量和时间使用情况，作为核心数据收集的低成本补充。该提案包括2006年1月1日至2011年12月31日期间。HRS为研究老龄化的健康、经济和人口统计学的科学和政策研究人员社区提供了一个独特的丰富的、具有全国代表性的纵向数据集。它提供了一个研究数据库，可以同时支持对50岁以上美国人口的横断面描述、对给定队列在相当长一段时间内的纵向研究以及对跨队列趋势的研究。到2010年，HRS将能够支持对1992年、1998年和2004年进入50岁的人的健康、劳动力供应或财富积累轨迹进行跨队列比较。HRS项目创建了一个超出核心调查数据范围的数据系统。这一扩展数据系统的一个组成部分包括与行政数据的链接，包括社会保障收入和福利记录、医疗保险利用和诊断记录、雇主养老金记录和国家死亡指数。我们计划扩大这些联系，将疗养院居民的信息从最低数据集包括在内，并探索与医疗补助记录的联系。第二个组成部分是使用卫生状况调查作为抽样框架，以支持针对特定疾病或专题领域的深入分研究。HRS数据系统的第三个方面是，出现了一系列关于其他国家老龄化的纵向研究，这些研究的目的是产生尽可能与HRS收集的数据相比较的数据。HRS提供了公共使用数据，旨在让美国科学界充分发挥力量和创造力，应对人口老龄化的挑战。HRS正在通过调查者发起的研究对老龄化研究产生重大影响，这些研究使用HRS作为输入，而不向研究人员或授权机构收费。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is competing continuation proposal for Years 17-22 of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We propose to continue core data collection on the steady-state design laid out in the previous renewal, including the addition of a new cohort in 2010; to build on our sub-study of prevalence of dementia to examine incidence; to add the collection of biological samples, including DNA, and psychosocial content; and to continue the use of mail surveys on special topics, including continued longitudinal measurement of consumption and time use for about half of the sample, as a low-cost complement to the core data collection. This proposal includes the period from January 1,2006 through December 31, 2011. HRS provides a uniquely rich, nationally representative longitudinal dataset for the community of scientific and policy researchers who study the health, economics and demography of aging. It provides a research data base that can simultaneously support cross-sectional descriptions of the U.S. population over the age of fifty, longitudinal studies of a given cohort over a substantial period of time and research on cross-cohort trends. By 2010 the HRS will be able to support cross-cohort comparisons of trajectories of health, labor supply, or wealth accumulation for persons who entered their 50'sin 1992, 1998 and 2004. The HRS project creates a data system extending beyond the core survey data. One component of this extended data system consists of linkages to administrative data, including Social Security earnings and benefit records, Medicare utilization and diagnostic records, employer pension records, and the National Death Index. We plan to expand these linkages to include information on nursing home residents from the Minimum Data Set and to explore linkages to Medicaid records. A second component is the use of the HRS survey as a sampling frame to support in-depth sub-studies targeted on specific diseases or topic areas. A third aspect of the HRS data system, which is not formally part of the HRS project, is the emergence of a set of longitudinal studies of aging in other countries which have been consciously designed to produce data as comparable as possible to that collected by the HRS. The HRS provides public use data designed to allow the full power and creativity of America's scientific community to address the challenges of an aging population. The HRS is making a significant impact on research on aging through investigator-initiated research which uses the HRS as an input without charge to researchers or granting agencies.