Impacts of Mortality: Project TALENT 50 Years Later

描述（由申请人提供）：TALENT项目是一项具有全国代表性的纵向研究，旨在评估1960年以来美国高中青年男女的抱负和能力。TALENT项目在1960年收集了大约377,000人的特征和认知能力的广泛信息，并进行了后续的随访研究，直到30岁。TALENT项目的大样本量、广泛的背景问卷和认知测量使其成为社会科学研究的首要研究，在一个很大程度上无缝的研究框架内涉及多个学科。现在，最初的“人才计划”受访者已步入60岁，这项研究特别适合于研究生命历程的结果，因为它的庞大的国家样本提供了研究健康、社会经济特征和生命历程转变的其他重要方面的差异所需的细节和统计能力。本申请要求资金支持NACDA在开发增强档案研究材料和提取工具方面的工作，以促进TALENT项目在死亡率结果分析中的使用。具体而言，我们将采用最近为基线样本完成的NDI链接，并将其纳入TALENT项目数据收集，从而引入死亡率关联的增强。我们将以与基线文件相同的存档标准组织这些信息，并执行适当的保密审查和数据共享程序，以简化对文件的安全访问。本申请要求资金支持NACDA在开发增强档案研究材料方面的工作，包括“死亡率联系增强”将采用DMF结果和最近完成的NDI链接，并将其纳入基线样本项目TALENT收集。由于使用NDI关联文件需要符合NCHS协议的特殊审查和批准程序，因此，NACDA将与AIR合作制定表格和程序，以促进这一批准过程，并确保对NDI信息感兴趣的研究人员遵守所需的程序。由于获得NDI链接文件的审批流程需要详细的分析计划作为申请的一部分，因此NACDA将利用从DMF匹配中提取的死亡率信息开发一个公共使用的TALENT项目数据样本。这将允许研究人员对死亡率影响进行探索性分析，并允许他们测试和制定更严格的分析计划，该计划将在更大的TALENT项目基线样本中使用更详细和完整的NDI匹配集，增值支持服务的增强将显著增强和组织TALENT项目死亡率联系的现有文档，并创建标准化文档以支持新文件。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project TALENT is a nationally representative longitudinal study created to assess the aspirations and abilities of America's young men and women in high school as of 1960. Project TALENT collected extensive information on characteristics and cognitive abilities of approximately 377,000 individuals in 1960 and administered subsequent follow-up studies through age 30. Project TALENT's large sample size, extensive background questionnaire, and cognitive measures has made it a premier study for social science research, engaging multiple disciplines within a largely seamless research framework. Now that the original Project TALENT respondents are entering their 60's, the study is uniquely suited for the study of life course outcomes as its large national sample provides a level of detail and statistical power required to study disparities in health, socioeconomic characteristics and other important aspects of life course transitions. This application requests funds to support work by NACDA in the development of enhanced archival research materials and extraction tools that facilitate the use of the Project TALENT in the analysis of mortality outcomes. Specifically we will introduce Enhancements for Mortality Linkages by taking the recently completed NDI links made for the Baseline sample and incorporating them into the Project TALENT data collection. We will organize this information in a way that brings them to the same archival standards as the Baseline files as well as performing appropriate confidential reviews and data sharing procedures to simplify safe access to the files. This application requests funds to support work by NACDA in the development of enhanced archival research materials including Enhancements for the Mortality Linkages will take the DMF results and the recently completed NDI links and incorporate them as part of the Baseline sample Project TALENT collection. Enhancements for Accessing the NDI Mortality Linage Files because the use of NDI linkage files require a special review and approval procedure consistent with NCHS protocols NACDA will work with AIR to development the forms and procedures to facilitate this approval process and to ensure the required procedures are adhered to by researchers interested in the NDI information. Enhancements for Testing Mortality Impacts as the approval process for obtaining access to NDI linkage files requires a detailed analysis plan as part of the application, NACDA will develop a public use sample of Project TALENT data using mortality information drawn from the DMF matches. This will allow researchers to perform exploratory analysis on mortality impacts and allow them to test and develop a more rigorous analysis plan that will use the more detailed and set of complete NDI matches for the larger Project TALENT baseline sample and Enhancements to Value-Added Support Services will significantly enhance and organize existing documentation for the Project TALENT mortality linkages and create standardized documentation to support the new files.