WISCONSIN LONGITUDINAL STUDY

描述：这是一个用于研究，支持数据用户， 和研究规划的威斯康星州纵向研究（WLS），一个大型的， 对10，000名女性和男性进行的多代老龄化研究， 5,000个兄弟姐妹篇。 在广泛的活动范围内， 研究，支持和规划，WLS项目有八个具体的 这些目标将在当前项目期间的工作的基础上进一步发展和扩展 时期：（1）研究同胞在健康、幸福和 社会和经济地位;（2）研究的演变和后果， 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格， 健康、发病率和死亡率;（4）维持和加强WLS 数据和文件以及传播关于世界卫生组织的 万维网（以及在档案方面，在ICPSR）;（5）通过以下途径与WLS用户联系 专业会议和研讨会，个别咨询，以及 编制专用限制性数据档案;（6）组织 研究和规划会议，在更新期的早期，这将 汇集了WLS研究人员和一个互补的领先的社会团体， 和生物医学老化研究人员;（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 为2000年后《千年宣言》的后续行动制订手段和方法 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.