Transient Domesticity and Drugs: Ethnography Informs a Nationwide Analysis

描述(由申请人提供)：这项申请进一步深入了正在进行的关于毒品对市中心非裔美国家庭家庭关系的影响的研究，并利用人口统计分析将这项工作扩展到全国。毒品与许多社会问题都有牵连。最近的人种学研究发现，它们与市中心不稳定的男女伙伴关系(或短暂的家庭生活)有关。家庭是儿童发展的基石。了解和解决导致伙伴关系不稳定的因素可以改善家庭功能，从而改善这些家庭中儿童的生活机会。以前的人口统计学研究没有分析这一现象，原因是缺乏对这种行为的丰富概念理解，以及可用数据的限制。2001年收入和方案参与调查小组(SIPP)大大改善了关于家庭关系的数据，这是人口普查局在四年多的时间里跟踪的具有全国代表性的大型家庭样本。为了回应审查员的最新评论，第二次重新提交提供了每项任务将如何完成的更多细节，并对各项任务进行了更明确的解释和整合。这项研究有两个目的：a.利用专门开发的调查模块分析非法药物对伙伴关系的影响。目标B使用具有全国代表性的样本(SIPP)，衡量与短暂家庭生活相关的伴侣模式与(或类似)在较富裕、较少城市化、非非裔美国人以及纽约市以外的群体中流行的模式的不同(或相似)程度。在研究过程中，该项目将开发和部署一个SIPP药物模块。目前正在参加人种学研究的100多名受试者的答复将创建一个人行横道，支持与人口分析专业人员一起对正在进行的人种学工作的结果进行三角测量。公共卫生相关性：最近的人种学研究发现，毒品与市中心不稳定的男女伙伴关系之间存在联系，我们将这种现象称为短暂的家庭生活。不稳定的市中心家庭给国家的医疗保健、社会服务和刑事司法系统带来了不成比例的负担。此外，这些贫困家庭是公共卫生和其他社会问题不断出现的主要场所，也是后代将被社会化以重现这些问题的地方。拟议的项目将提供全国范围内暂时性家庭生活流行率的初步迹象；确定种族/族裔、城市化和经济状况的差异；并提出关于吸毒可能涉及的程度的问题。最重要的是，该项目将开发并试点测试SIPP药物模块，当该模块在全国范围内部署时，可以明确衡量药物与短暂家庭生活之间的关系。 这项研究应该被证明是理解问题的性质、位置和程度的核心，可能导致在未来跟踪改进。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application furthers ongoing research into the impact of drugs on domestic relationships in inner-city African American households and extends that work nationwide using demographic analyses. Drugs have been implicated in numerous social problems. Recent ethnographic research has identified their linkage to unstable female-male partnering (or transient domesticity) in the inner city. The family is the bedrock for child development. Understanding and addressing factors contributing to partnership instability could improve household functioning and thereby improve the life chances of children in these families. Prior demographic research has not analyzed this phenomenon due to a lack of a rich conceptual understanding of the behavior and due to limitations of available data. Data on household relationships were greatly improved with the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a large nationally representative sample of households followed over four years by the Census Bureau. In response to the latest reviewer comments, this second resubmission provides greater detail as to how each task will be completed and a clearer explanation and integration of the tasks. This study has two aims: AIM A. To analyze the impact that illicit drugs have on partnership relationships using a specially developed survey module. AIM B. To measure the extent that the partnering patterns associated with transient domesticity differ from (or are similar to) those prevailing among groups that are wealthier, less urban, not African American, and beyond New York City, using a nationally-representative sample (the SIPP). In the course of the study, the project will develop and field a SIPP Drugs Module. Responses by over 100 subjects currently enrolled in an ethnographic study will create a crosswalk supporting triangulation of findings from ongoing ethnographic work with the demographic analyses pro. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Recent ethnographic research has identified a linkage between drugs and unstable female-male partnering in the inner city, a phenomenon we refer to as transient domesticity. Unstable inner-city households disproportionately burden the nation's health care, social service, and criminal justice systems. Moreover, these distressed households are a primary location in which public health and other social problems continuously arise and where future generations will be socialized to reproduce these problems. The proposed project will provide initial indications of the prevalence of transient domesticity across the nation; identify the variation with race/ethnicity, urbanicity and economic circumstances; and raise questions about the extent that drug use may be involved. Most importantly, the project will develop and pilot test a SIPP Drugs Module that when fielded nationwide could explicitly measure the relationship between drugs and transient domesticity. This research should prove central to understanding the nature, location and extent of the problem possibly leading to tracking improvements in the future.