Archiving the Americans' Changing Lives Study: Enhancing Research Opportunities

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请申请资金支持NACDA开发增强的档案研究材料和提取工具，以促进对美国整个生命过程中健康、经济行为和认知的社会背景的研究。美国人改变生活(ACL)是一项基础研究，涵盖了一系列涉及社会学、心理、心理和身体健康项目的变量。国家老龄化计算机化数据档案馆(NACDA)和ACL研究团队之间拟议的合作将使我们能够在ACL内容的公认专家的审查下，应用我们的专业知识来处理这项重要任务。当前的应用侧重于核心增强，这些增强将增强ACL的四个浪潮的结构。我们建议实施一个有重点的档案交付系统，使我们能够满足四个不同的研究需求：1.数据结构的改进：我们将更新和标准化构成美国人不断变化的生活的四个数据面板，以满足复杂纵向数据收集的当前档案标准。2.对文档的改进：我们将广泛修订关于ACL的文档，以纳入便于用户使用的码本和问卷工具版本。3.对受限数据内容的增强：我们将与ACL研究团队合作，审查他们收集的上下文数据文件，并建议允许合格研究人员访问文件的协议。4.增值支持服务的增强：我们将为ACL提供全套支持工具和增值产品。这套工具将包括这项研究的动态在线参考书目，可供搜索，并将与所有电子出版物建立稳定的链接。此外，我们还将尝试确定并添加有关ACL的用法、潜在应用和历史记录的其他技术材料。这些目标虽然影响深远，但对于档案R-03机制下的NACDA来说是现实的，因为该应用程序建立在使我们能够开发和交付重点档案系统的现有基础设施之上。通过利用现有资金开发的技术，本应用程序所需的资源将最大限度地提高我们的能力，以增强ACL的方式，这在几年前是不切实际的，甚至是不可能的。公共卫生相关性：该项目将加强美国人改变生活的公共使用数据文件。这些改进将使研究人员能够检查社会和经济行为与美国25岁及以上成年人健康结果的关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funds to support work by NACDA in the development of enhanced archival research materials and extraction tools that facilitate the study of the social context of health, economic behavior and cognition across the life course in the United States. The American's Changing Lives (ACL) represents a foundation study that covers a wide array of variables that touch on sociological, psychological, mental and physical health items. The proposed collaboration between the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) and the ACL research team will allow us to apply our expertise in addressing this important task under the review of established experts of the ACL content. The current application focuses on core enhancements that will enhance the structure of the four waves of the ACL. We propose to implement a focused archival delivery system that will allow us to address four distinct research needs: 1. Enhancements to Data Structure: We will update and standardize the four panels of data constituting the American's Changing Lives to meet current archival standards for complex longitudinal data collections. 2. Enhancements to Documentation: We will extensively revise the documentation on the ACL to include user- friendly versions of codebooks and questionnaires instruments. 3. Enhancements to Restricted Data content: We will work with the ACL research team to review their collection of contextual data files and suggest protocols to allow the qualified researchers access to the files. 4. Enhancements to Value Added Support Services: We will provide the ACL a full suite of support tools and value added products. Included in this suite of tools will be a dynamic online bibliography of the study that is searchable and will have stable links to all electronically available publications. Additionally we will attempt to identify and add additional technical material on the use, potential applications, and history of the ACL. These goals, while far reaching, are realistic for NACDA under the Archival R-03 mechanism as the application builds upon a preexisting infrastructure that allows us to develop and deliver focused archival systems. By leveraging technology developed with existing funding, the resources requested in this application will maximize our ability to enhance the ACL in ways that were impractical if not impossible only a few years ago. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will enhance the American's Changing Lives public use data files. These enhancements will allow researchers to examine the relationships of social and economic behaviors on health outcomes among adults aged 25 and older in the United States.