WISCONSIN LONGITUDINAL STUDY

描述：这是一个研究的应用程序，支持数据用户， 和威斯康星州纵向研究(WLS)的研究规划，一个大型的， 万名男女及以上人群老龄化的多代研究 他们的5000名兄弟姐妹。在……的广泛活动中 研究、支持和规划，WLS项目有八个具体的 目标，这将在当前项目期间的工作基础上发展和延伸 时期：(1)关于兄弟姐妹在健康、幸福感和 社会和经济地位；(2)对以下方面的演变和后果的研究 从青年到中年的认知能力；(3)社会经济研究 与职业和健康有关的测量和模型规范， 幸福感、发病率和死亡率；(4)维持和加强世界卫生组织 《世界公共使用档案》的数据和文件及传播 万维网(并在ICPSR存档)；(5)通过以下途径向世界劳工组织用户进行外联 专业会议和讲习班、个人协商以及 编制特殊用途的受限数据文件；(6)组织 研究和规划会议，在更新期早期，将 将WLS研究人员和一个由领先的社会团体组成的互补小组聚集在一起 和生物医学老龄化研究人员；(7)更新和增强 关于被调查者所在地和死亡率的信息；(8)初步设计和 2000年后的后续行动的手段和方法的发展 WLS.

DESCRIPTION: This is an application for research, support of data users, and research planning for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), a large, multi-generational study of aging among 10,000 women and men and more than 5,000 of their brothers and sisters. Within the broad activities of research, support, and planning, the WLS project has eight specific objectives, which will build on and extend work during the current project period: (1) studies of sibling resemblance in health, well-being, and social and economic status; (2) studies of the evolution and consequences of cognitive ability from youth to midlife; (3) studies of socio-economic measurement and model specification in relation to careers and to health, well-being, morbidity, and mortality; (4) maintenance and enhancement of WLS data and documentation and dissemination of public-use files on the World Wide Web (and, archivally, at ICPSR); (5) outreach to WLS users through professional meetings and workshops, individual consultations, and preparation of special-purpose restricted data files; (6) organization of a research and planning conference, early in the renewal period, which will bring together WLS researchers and a complementary group of leading social and biomedical aging researchers; (7) updates and enhancements of information on respondent location and mortality; (8) preliminary design and development of instruments and method for the post-2000 follow-up of the WLS.