Extension for the Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland from 2012 to 2017

总体而言，我们的目标是继续开发辅助计划，通过增加新的数据集来扩大其潜力，通过使数据更容易获取来扩大其研究用户基础，并通过英国水平研究机制扩大其覆盖范围。我们的7个目标是：1.通过与包括2011年人口普查在内的新数据集的联系来加强辅助计划首两年的主要重点将是将2011年人口普查与辅助计划联系起来。这项工作将是值得考虑的。然而，我们也将：-将1947年的苏格兰心理调查与SLS联系起来。这将产生一个n~3000-3500的样本，并提供关于该队列父母的年龄、社会阶层的信息，以及1980年代以后基于健康和人口普查的详细信息。-建立联系，探索儿童健康监测数据的两个主要来源的有效性和可靠性。2014年后，我们将与一些数据持有者讨论在2012-2014年期间将他们的数据与SLS联系起来的可能性。这将包括以下数据的持有者：继续和高等教育数据、私立学校教育程度信息、社会保障、牙科和处方数据。-NRS是否可以开发一种系统，允许从100%人口脊椎中提取“特殊”SLSS样本，从而产生定制的“SLSS”。2.支持研究人员获取和使用研究人员补充研究服务的核心工作是支持研究人员从申请、准备和数据分析到出版物发布的整个研究项目生命周期。我们还组织了网上资源，以帮助更容易地使用补充劳工计划，并通过一系列的研讨会和研讨会提供关于补充补充计划和纵向数据处理、分析和建模的培训。维护SLS和安全设置我们将继续执行研究的核心维护任务。4.与ESRC的其他投资进行接触和合作我们将努力实现LSS的更大程度的整合。我们将积极支持英国人口普查纵向研究发展中心，特别是为一个项目提供重要的研究支持，该项目旨在创建一个可以更灵活地提供给研究人员的合成数据集。5.促进可持续发展战略的研究潜力我们将继续参加促进纵向分析和可持续发展战略的国家和国际会议。我们的网站也是一个重要的工具，不仅用来宣传SLS的研究潜力，而且还用来鼓励获取资源，促进研究人员利用数据集已经取得的成果和影响。促进可持续发展战略的影响在直接促进其研究的影响方面，特别战略计划已有记录。首先，我们计划对一批以补充劳工计划为基础的项目进行影响个案研究。我们亦会继续定期与主要政府部门举行周年简报会和讨论工作坊。计划的第三个促进影响的途径是与私营部门专业机构接触，讨论与其工作直接相关的问题类型，这些问题可利用特别服务计划有效地加以探讨。7.开展方法论开发工作目前获取SLS数据的一个缺点是，用户必须访问SLS单位的安全设置，或者提交由SLS工作人员运行的代码。合成数据的想法是，产生的模拟数据不对应于任何真实的个人或组织，但保持了原始数据中存在的变量之间的分布和关系。因此，它可以在安全设置之外使用。我们的目标是开发一种方法来产生安全的SLS合成版本。我们还将测试引入SLS的任何新数据的有效性、可靠性和实用性。

Overall we aim to continue to develop the SLS, extending its potential through the addition of new datasets, expanding its research user base by making the data more accessible and extending its coverage through a mechanism for UK level studies.Our 7 objectives are to:1. Enhance the SLS through linkages to new datasets including the 2011 census The key focus of the first two years will be the linking of the 2011 census to the SLS. This work will be considerable.We will however also:- link the Scottish Mental Survey of 1947 to the SLS. This will produce a sample of n~ 3000-3500 and provide information on the age, social class of the cohort's parents, and after the 1980s detailed health and census based information. - establish links, explore the validity and reliability of two main sources of child health surveillance data. Beyond 2014 we will be discussing with:- a number of data holders, the possibility of linking their data to the SLS during the period 2012-2014. This will include the holders of: further and higher education data, information on educational attainment in private schools, social security, dental and prescribing data.- NRS whether it might be feasible to develop a system that would allow 'special' samples of 'SLSs' to be drawn from a 100% population spine producing bespoke 'SLSs'. 2. Support access and use of the SLS by researchersThe core work of the SLS is supporting researchers through the whole life cycle of an SLS research project from application, preparation and data analysis, to publication dissemination. We also organise web-based resources that will help make use of the SLS easier and provide training on the SLS and longitudinal data handling, analysis and modelling through a series of workshops and seminars.3. Maintain the SLS and safe setting We will continue with the core maintenance tasks of the study. 4. Engage and collaborate with other ESRC investmentsWe will work towards a greater integration of the LSes. We will actively support the UK Census Longitudinal Study Development Hub in particular providing significant research support for a project to create a synthetic dataset that can be made available to researchers more flexibly. 5. Promote the research potential of the SLSWe will continue to participate in national and international conferences promoting longitudinal analysis and the SLS. Our website is also an important vehicle not only for advertising the research potential of the SLS, but also for encouraging access to the resource and promoting the outputs and impacts that have already been achieved by researchers using the dataset.6. Promote the impact of the SLSThe SLS already has a track record of directly promoting the impact of its research. Firstly we plan to conduct impact case-studies on a sample of SLS-based projects. We would also seek to continue to hold regular annual presentations and discussion workshops with key government departments. A third avenue of impact promotion planned is to approach professional private-sector bodies to discuss the types of issues directly relevant to their work which might be effectively explored using the SLS. 7. Conduct methodological development workA disadvantage of the current access to SLS data is that users must either visit the safe setting in the SLS unit or submit code to be run by SLS staff. The idea of synthetic data is that simulated data are produced that do not correspond to any real individuals or organisations, but maintain the distributions and the relationships between the variables that exist in the original. This can therefore be used outside the safe setting. We aim to develop a method to produce safe synthetic versions of the SLS.We will also test the validity, reliability and utility of any new data being introduced into the SLS.