Creating a Lifecourse Panel from Birth to Early Adulthood

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议继续收集和分发PSID-CDS家庭中从青春期过渡到成年早期的儿童的数据，这是一项多波研究，“过渡到成年期（TA）”。具体来说，我们寻求支持在2009年和2011年从儿童发展补充队列中收集两波额外的TA，这些儿童到那时已经年满18岁。这将产生一个综合的CDS- ta PSID子面板，包含从幼儿期到青年期的七波信息，涉及3,653名在最初（1997年）CDS浪潮中0-12岁的儿童。我们还寻求对研究界外展行为的支持，以提高认识并促进在多学科背景下使用这些数据。在过去的30年里，在美国，我们看到在教育、工作、经济独立、婚姻/同居和为人父母等领域，我们可以称之为成年过渡的年龄跨度急剧增加。所有这些都发生在一个变化很大的年龄间隔内，平均而言，时间更长。像英国家庭调查小组和其他家谱调查小组一样，TA-CDS提供了关于发达国家青少年从青少年早期开始经历教育、职业和关系转变的方式的广泛信息，这些转变标志着他们向成年的过渡。所有的CDS/TA数据都可以通过我们的在线数据中心与父母、祖父母和兄弟姐妹在类似生命历程阶段的经历联系起来。在NICHD的事先支持下，已经在CDS中收集了三波来自PSID家庭的青少年的数据，1997年（CDS- i）为0-12岁，2002/03年（CDS- ii）为5-18岁，2007/08年（CDS- iii）为10-18岁。此外，前两波TA研究已经成功实施。2005年TA调查了745名18岁的高中毕业或离开高中的年轻人，回复率为89%。2008年3月结束的第二次助教调查，以这些青年为对象，加上2007年高中毕业或毕业的18岁青年，共进行了1118次访谈，回复率达90%。我们计划在所有CDS儿童过渡到主要PSID样本时收集TA数据。那些已经完成这种转变的少数CDS青年也将收到与仍然住在家里的依赖TA样本相同的材料。TA的内容很广泛，涵盖了必须直接报告的材料。随着年龄超过18岁的CDS“校友”人数的增加，助教的样本量也会随着时间的推移而增加，2009年约有1,891人符合条件，2011年又有1,962人符合条件，这提高了样本的有效性。公共卫生相关性：18岁至25-28岁这一年龄段已成为青年不再是青少年但尚未成年的人生时期。我们目前对促进或阻碍成功地度过这一时期进入富有成效的成年期的个人和社会特征几乎一无所知。在2009年和2011年收集TA数据将增加新的PSID-CDS-TA组合数据资源，为跨学科科学界提供一个独特的机会，以特别创新和信息丰富的方式检查各种家庭和行为因素对成功的早期生命历程轨迹的作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to continue the collection and distribution of data on children in PSID-CDS families who are making the transition from adolescence into early adulthood in a multiwave study, "Transition into Adulthood (TA)." Specifically, we seek support for two additional waves of TA to be collected in 2009 and 2011 from the children of the Child Development Supplement cohort who have turned age 18 by this time. This will yield a combined CDS-TA sub-panel of the PSID with seven waves of information from early childhood to young adulthood on this cohort of 3,653 children age 0-12 in the initial (1997) wave of CDS. We also seek support for the conduct of outreach to the research community in order to increase awareness and facilitate the use of these data in a multi-disciplinary context. Over the last 30 years in the U.S. we have seen a dramatic increase in the age span of what can be called transition to adulthood in the domains of education, work, economic independence, marriage/cohabitation, and parenthood. All of this is occurring over a widely variable age interval and on average, a longer one. Like the British Household Panel Survey, and other genealogical panels, TA-CDS provides extensive information on the ways in which youth, from early teenage years on, make their way through the educational, occupational, and relationship transitions that mark the transition to adulthood in developed countries. All the CDS/TA data can be connected, via our on-line Data Center, to the experiences of the parents and grandparents and siblings at comparable life course stages. With prior support from NICHD, three waves of data have already been collected on these youth from PSID families in the CDS, in 1997 (CDS-I) at age 0-12, again in 2002/03 (CDS-II) at age 5-18, and again in 2007/08 (CDS-III) for those at age 10-18. In addition, the first two waves of the TA study have been successfully implemented. TA 2005 collected interviews from 745 youth who turned age18 and graduated or left high school as of 2005 for an 89 percent response rate. The second wave of TA concluded in March 2008, collecting interviews from these same youth plus those who turned 18 and graduated or left high school as of 2007, for a total of 1,118 interviews and a 90 percent response rate. We plan to collect TA data for all CDS children as they make the transition into the main PSID sample. Those few CDS youth who have already made this transition will also receive the same material as the dependent TA sample still living at home. The TA content is extensive and covers material which must be reported directly. The TA sample sizes increase over time as the number of CDS 'alumni' over age 18 grows, with about 1,891 eligible in 2009 and another 1,962 in 2011, boosting sample power. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The years between 18 and 25-28 years of age have become a period of life in which youth are no longer adolescents but not yet adults. We currently know almost nothing about the personal and social characteristics that either facilitate or impede the successful passage through this period into a productive adulthood. Collecting TA data in 2009 and 2011 will add to the new PSID-CDS-TA combined data resource, presenting a unique opportunity for an interdisciplinary scientific community to examine the role of various familial and behavioral factors on successful early life course trajectories in particularly innovative and informative ways.