Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop 2012

描述(申请人提供)：如今在美国，近40%的婴儿出生在未合法结婚的父母手中。在过去的十年里，脆弱家庭和儿童福祉研究(FFS)已经成为研究有孩子的未婚父母的能力和面临的挑战的重要工具，这些父母通常被称为“脆弱家庭”。FFS是一项具有全国代表性的纵向出生队列调查，对美国20个大城市1998至2001年间出生的儿童进行调查，其中对未婚夫妇的出生进行了大量超额抽样。这些数据在家庭资源的四个领域--经济、父母关系、健康和育儿--以及儿童发展的三个领域--身体健康、社会情绪健康和认知发展--的重复测量中独一无二地丰富。这项提议寻求资金，以便在2012年夏季举办一个为期三天的讲习班，培训来自不同学科的初级人口研究人员如何使用脆弱家庭数据。这些讲习班将有助于传播脆弱家庭数据，更好地了解脆弱家庭面临的问题，并为新一代社会和生物医学科学家提供指导和合作的机会。 公共卫生相关性：这项提议寻求资金，以开发和运营夏季讲习班，培训一批不同的早期职业学者，了解如何使用脆弱家庭和儿童福祉研究的数据。讲习班将介绍数据的实质性结果，讨论人口研究的关键结构的衡量，并提供有关脆弱家庭数据的实践培训。通过这样做，拟议的讲习班将支持一批新兴学者，并进一步了解与儿童和家庭的健康和福祉有关的行为和社会功能。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nearly 40% of all births in the United States today occur to parents who are not legally married. Over the last ten years, the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFS) has emerged as an important tool in research on the capabilities of, and challenges facing unmarried parents with children, often referred to as "fragile families." The FFS is a nationally representative, longitudinal, birth cohort survey of children born between 1998 and 2001 in 20 large American cities, with a large oversample of births to unmarried couples. The data are uniquely rich in repeated measures of four domains of family resources - economic, parent relations, heath, and parenting and three domains of child development - physical health, socio-emotional wellbeing, and cognitive development. This proposal seeks funds for the development and implementation of a three-day workshop in the summer of 2012, which will train junior population researchers from a variety of disciplines on the use of the Fragile Families data. These workshops will result in the dissemination of the Fragile Families data, an improved understanding of the issues facing fragile families, and opportunities for mentorship and collaboration for a new generation of social and biomedical scientists. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This proposal seeks funds to develop and operate a summer workshop to train a diverse group of early- career scholars on the use of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. The workshop will present substantive findings from the data, discuss the measurement of key constructs for population research, and provide hands-on training with the Fragile Families data. In so doing, the proposed workshop will support a cohort of emerging scholars and further the understanding of behavioral and social functioning relevant to the health and wellbeing of children and families.