CORE-- PUBLIC USE TAPE ON AGING, 1830-1940

该项目的中心目标是生产一种公共用途的带子 适合在随机抽样的39,618名男性中进行年龄研究 加入联邦军队。磁带中的信息将包括 新兵所在家庭的社会经济特征 提高；衡量特定疾病的流行情况，供水， 以及他们居住的地方的其他公共卫生状况 在发育阶段；他们的战斗和病史在 战争；以及他们的医疗、职业、收入、居住和人口统计 从1965年到他们去世之间的历史。四个项目将使用 磁带中的信息用于调查以下问题：(1) 营养状况、社会经济因素和疾病暴露 (包括战时应激)在发育和中年期间 白人男性中老年发病率和死亡率。(2) 寄主和环境条件对这种可能性的影响 新兵在服役期间和服役期间会感染特定的疾病 在退伍前死于这些疾病的可能性。(3) 年轻人暴露在有毒环境中对可能性的影响 患上特定的慢性病和工作能力 中年和晚年，对社会经济和其他 环境条件、暴露时的年龄和暴露的时间。 (4)特定慢性病对劳动力参与的影响 和晚年的相对收入在一段时期文化 鼓励晚年的人尽可能地自食其力。(5) 照顾老年人的安排的性质、成本和有效性 因残疾性质和职业、家庭而变老 情况，以及寄宿者的居住情况。(6) 经济、社会、技术、政治和文化的贡献 1890年后农民收入弹性大幅提高的原因 老年人的休闲需求和对世俗化的解释 这种增长的模式。该项目的其他功能，包括宽幅 样本中的男性接触的疾病范围，容量 在生命周期中跟踪高流动性的个人，广泛 社会经济特征和环境的变化 个人的情况，以及相对较低的成本 每一次观察到的信息。因为19世纪的性质 除疾病外，该项目还涉及最不发达国家的流行病学问题。

The central objective of the project is the production of a public use tape suitable for a study of aging among a random sample of 39,618 men mustered into the Union Army. The information in the tape will include socioeconomic characteristics of the households in which the recruits were raised; measures of the prevalence of specific diseases, of water supplies, and other public health conditions in the localities in which they lived during developmental ages; their combat and medical histories during the war; and their medical, occupational, income, residential, and demographic histories between 1965 and their deaths. Four projects will use the information in the tape to investigate such issues as: (1) The effect of nutritional status, socioeconomic factors, and exposure to diseases (including wartime stress) during developmental and middle ages on the morbidity and mortality rates of white males at middle and late ages. (2) The effect of host and environmental conditions on the probability that recruits would contract specific diseases during service and on the probability of dying from these diseases before being mustered out. (3) The effect of youthful exposure to virulent environments on the likelihood of developing specific chronic diseases and on the capacity to work at midadult and late ages, with controls for socioeconomic and other environmental conditions, age at exposure, and the duration of exposure. (4) The effect of specific chronic diseases on labor force participation and relative earnings at late ages during a period when the culture encouraged individuals late ages to be as self-supporting as possible. (5) The nature, cost, and effectiveness of arrangements for the care of the aged by the nature of their disabilities and by the occupations, family circumstances, and residence of those with whom they were lodged. (6) The contribution of economic, social, technological, political, and cultural factors to the sharp increase after 1890 in the income elasticity of the demand for leisure at older ages, and the explanation for the secular pattern of that increase. Other features of the project including the wide range of diseases to which the men in the sample were exposed, the capacity to follow highly mobile individuals over their life-cycles, the wide variations in the socioeconomic characteristics and environmental circumstances of the individuals, and the relatively low cost of the information per observation. Because of the nature of the 19th century diseases, the project also bears on the epidemiology of LDCS.