NILS funding 2020-2025

北爱尔兰纵向研究（NILS）是ESRC用于北爱尔兰和联合王国各组成国家人口和公共卫生研究的数据基础设施的一个重要组成部分。它与其他UKCenLSs建立了战略关系，并在北爱尔兰与北爱尔兰统计和研究局（NISRA）、公共卫生署（PHA）和诚实经纪人服务（HBS）建立了战略关系。其28%的样本将人口普查数据与来自医保登记、社会保健和住房的行政数据相结合，将跨越1981年至2021年期间，届时与2021年人口普查的联系将完成。这使人们能够描述和分析不断变化的地区不断变化的人口、生命历程中的个人财富、家庭背景以及连续几代人之间的进步。拨款将资助NILS研究支援单位（NILS- rsu），直至2025年，该单位的职能包括维持一个安全的数据实验室，供用户安全地处理这些数据，从项目申请到发表，为用户提供支持，向决策者和公众推广基于NILS的研究，通过推广NILS寻求新用户，以及鼓励为公众利益而进行的研究。我们工作计划的一个主要亮点将是围绕2021年人口普查联系进行测试、使用和开发研究。NILS- rsu还将通过与新的利益攸关方接触和增加其对教育的贡献，寻求扩大NILS在北爱尔兰的社会和教育基础。它还将鼓励使用NILS和其他英国纵向研究的研究，为国家和国际研究议程做出贡献，同时在北爱尔兰发展新的研究伙伴关系。

The Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS) is an important element in the ESRC data infrastructure for population and public health research in Northern Ireland and across the constituent countries of the UK. It has strategic relationships with the other UKCenLSs and, within Northern Ireland, with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), the Public Health Agency (PHA), and the Honest Broker Service (HBS). Its 28% sample, which combines census data with administrative data from the healthcard register, social care, and housing, will span the period 1981-2021 when the link to the 2021 Census is completed. This enables the description and analysis of changing populations in changing places, individual fortunes over the life course, household contexts, as well as progress between successive generations. The grant will fund, until 2025, the NILS Research Support Unit (NILS-RSU) which has the functions of maintaining a secure data laboratory for users to work on these data safely, of supporting users from project application to publication, of promoting NILS-based research to policymakers and the public, of seeking new users through the promotion of the NILS, and of encouraging research for the public benefit. A major highlight of our work programme will be testing, using and developing research around the 2021 Census link. The NILS-RSU will also seek to widen the social and educational base of the NILS in Northern Ireland through engaging with new stakeholders and growing its contribution to education. It will also encourage research using the NILS and the other UK longitudinal studies to contribute to national and international research agendas whilst developing new research partnerships in Northern Ireland.