Archiving the National Long Term Care Survey 1982-2004

描述(由申请人提供)：国家长期护理调查(NLTCS)是一项基础研究，衡量了美国老年人中残疾的进展情况。作为为数不多的明确识别和追踪残疾转变及其对老龄人口生活影响的研究之一，NLTCS极大地影响了我们对残疾生命历程的思考。NLTCS由一系列六个小组组成，从1982年到2004年，大约每五年采访一次原始答复者或他们的尚存配偶。2006年底将这项研究转移到国家老龄问题计算机化数据档案馆(NACDA)，最近完成了2004年的这一波研究，这项申请要求提供资金，以支持NACDA开发增强的NLTCS的工作。目前的申请侧重于初步改进，将标准化代表NLTCS的六个WAVE的结构，创建更统一的数据收集，并执行准备任务，以允许提交更大的申请，以创建残疾生命过程研究的工作纵向文件。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国家长期护理调查的六个数据小组，以满足当前的档案标准。2)文档的改进：我们将广泛修订NLTCS的文档，包括用户友好版本的代码簿和问卷，并创建数据定义文件，用于SAS、STATA和SPSS分析软件。更重要的是，我们将使用符合DDI的XML文件格式标准为NLTCS创建在线文档文件。3)加强宣传：我们将为所有有兴趣获取非长期技术控制系统的用户提供简化和可靠的交付服务。为所有NACDA数据收集提供的这项服务对NLTCS特别重要，因为它有具体的保密问题，不仅要求有能力管理和监测数据，而且还要求有协议定义数据的使用。4)增强增值支持服务：我们将向NLTCS提供全套支持工具和书目参考材料，以及可供搜索的研究动态在线书目，并将与所有电子出版物建立稳定的链接。项目简介：这项拟议的研究将提高健康研究人员研究残疾在整个老龄化生命过程中的影响的能力。通过提高与国家长期护理调查(NLTCS)相关的公共使用档案的质量，研究界将在1982年至2004年的20年期间简化残疾数据的获取。这项研究着眼于健康、经济和家庭对老龄化的影响，以及向养老院和其他机构环境的过渡

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS) represents a foundation study that measures the progression of disability among the aged in the United States. As one of the few studies explicitly identifies and tracts transitions into disability and the impacts of this process on the lives of aging populations, the NLTCS has greatly influenced our thinking on the disability life course. The NLTCS consists of a series of six panels that interviewed original respondents or their surviving spouses approximately every five years from 1982 to 2004. The relocation of the study to the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) in late 2006 and the recent completion of the 2004 wave of this study this application requests funds to support work by NACDA in the development of an enhanced NLTCS. The current application focuses on preliminary enhancements that will standardize the structure of the six waves that represent the NLTCS, creating a more uniform data collection and doing preparatory tasks to allow the submission of a larger application to create a working longitudinal file for disability life course research. 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 six panels of data constituting the National Long Term Care Survey to meet current archival standards. 2) Enhancements to Documentation: We will extensively revise the documentation on the NLTCS to include user-friendly versions of codebooks and questionnaires and create data definition files for use with SAS, STATA and SPSS analysis software. More importantly, we will create online documentation files for the NLTCS using XML, DDI compliant file format standards. 3) Enhancements to Dissemination: We will provide streamlined and reliable delivery services for all users interested in obtaining the NLTCS. This service, provided for all NACDA data collections, is particularly critical for the NLTCS as it has specific confidentiality issues that require the ability to manage and monitor not only the data but agreements define the use of the data. 4) Enhancements to Value Added Support Services: We will provide the NLTCS a full suite of support tools and bibliographic reference materials and a dynamic online bibliography of the study that is searchable and will have stable links to all electronically available publications. PROJECT NARRATIVE: The proposed study will enhance the capacity of health researchers to study the impacts of disability across the aging life course. By improving the quality of the public use files associated with the National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS) the research community will have streamlined access to disability data over a two decade period from 1982 to 2004. The study looks at health, economic and family impacts on aging and the transitions into nursing homes and other institutional settings