NLSY Kinship Links: Reliable and Valid Sibling Identification

描述(由申请人提供)：该项目旨在使用复杂的数据管理方法来开发新的NLSY亲属关系链接文件，这将对人口统计学、发育和行为遗传学研究人员以及更广泛的社会/行为科学研究人员具有广泛的价值。我们建议根据两个国家纵向调查数据库中新获得的亲属关系信息创建数据文件，这两个数据库是1979年全国青年纵向调查数据(NLSY79,1979年14-22岁青少年的概率样本)和国家青少年纵向调查数据(NLSYC，对NLSY79中女性所生的所有亲生子女的调查)。我们将使用NLSY79和NLSYC创建兄弟对文件和多级文件。我们在过去三个NIH资助的项目中使用隐性亲属关系链接创建亲属关系链接文件的广泛背景为我们提供了独特的经验和人才来开发这些文件，将它们分发给研究团队，并提供技术支持，以促进它们在应用研究环境中的使用。这一努力的成果将是制作四个各种格式的亲属关系链接文件，一个可供查阅这些文件的网上系统，以及培训一名新的年轻研究人员，以提供使用这些文件的技术支持。我们将这些文件的价值记录给数十个，甚至可能是数百个使用NLSY数据集进行家庭研究的研究团队。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The project is designed to use sophisticated data management methods to develop new NLSY kinship linking files, which will be broadly valuable to demographic, developmental, and behavior genetic researchers, as well as to broader social/behavioral science researchers. We propose to create data files from newly available kinship information in two of the National Longitudinal Survey databases, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data (the NLSY79, a probability sample of adolescents aged 14-22 in 1979), and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Children data (the NLSYC, a survey of all biological children born to females in the NLSY79). We will create sibling pair files and multi-level files using the NLSY79 and the NLSYC. Our extensive background creating kinship linking files using implicit kinship links in the three past NIH-funded projects provides us unique experience and talent to develop these files, to circulate them to research teams, and to provide technical support to facilitate their use in applied research settings. The product of this effort will be the production of four kinship link files in a variety of formats, a web-based system available to access the files, and training of a new young researcher to provide technical support in the use of these files. We document the value of these files to dozens, and potentially hundreds, of research teams who conduct family research using the NLSY datasets.