CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND CULTURES: A U.S. U.K. COMPARISON

这项提案寻求资金帮助创建一个主要的数据资源--两个 国家，统一的数据集与年轻人的纵向调查和 对孩子的调查和测试数据。 具体地说，该项目的第一个任务将支持数据收集 从英国的数千名儿童中， 受访者在备受尊敬和有影响力的“国民少年儿童” 发展研究“(NCDS)自本组织诞生以来一直在进行 1958年3月的一群人。这项针对儿童的调查的设计将反映 在许多方面，重要的“NLS/Y子女”数据的设计 故事背景设在美国。 除了在英国收集儿童数据外，这些项目的 第二个任务将是创建公共使用数据文件，这些数据文件来自 非传染性疾病“尽可能尽可能地与联合国系统的数据文件并行 广泛使用的“NLS/Y的孩子”，从而促进了两者的使用 健康发展决定因素比较研究档案 这两种文化中的孩子。 这个项目的第三项任务是写一本研究专著。 解决美国和英国儿童面临的差异- -卫生保健、儿童保育、教育制度和 家庭结构。这项研究将重点放在家庭和家庭的作用上 社会对这些在过去15年中出生的儿童的发展 以及这些不同角色的政策含义。

This proposal seeks funds to help create a major data resource - a two nation, unified data set with longitudinal surveys of young adults and survey and test data on their children. Specifically, this project's first task will support the data collection from several thousand children in the United Kingdom, the children of the respondents in the highly respected and influential "National Child Development Study" (NCDS) which has been underway since the birth of this cohort in March, 1958. The design of this survey of children will mirror in many respects the design of the important "Children of the NLS/Y" data set in the U.S. In addition to the collection of the child data in the U.K., the projects's second task will be to create public use data files from the "Children of the NCDS" that parallel, as closely as feasible, the data files of the widely used "Children of the NLS/Y", thus promoting the use of the two files for comparative study of the determinants of the healthy development of children in the two cultures. The third task in the project is the writing of a research monograph addressing the differences faced by children in the U.S. and in the U.K. - - differences in health care, in child care, in educational systems, and in family structure. The research will focus on the role of the family and the society in the development of these children born in the past fifteen years and the policy implications of those varying roles.