Data Collection for Older NLSY Children

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的主要目标是1)通过2012年，2014年和2016年的数据收集轮来扩展NLSY79青年成人（YA）数据收集，包括21岁及以上青年的家庭环境和行为，询问更多的心理和身体健康问题，并收集唾液样本以提供DNA，从而增强我们之前的YA数据。这些年轻人代表了NLSY79名女性受访者所生的最大的孩子。这项持续拨款在2008/2010年度资助对21岁及以上青年的采访。在NICHD的支持下，所有NLSY79儿童自1986年以来每两年接受一次各种认知和社会情感评估。15岁及以上的年轻人于1994年首次接受采访，被问及的问题与他们的母亲在青少年时期被问及的问题相似。自2000年以来，对21岁及以上的NLSY79名青少年的采访一直由NICHD资助，同样包括与同龄母亲相同的问题。将儿童数据与来自NLSY79整个生命周期的一系列母亲、家庭和儿童属性、行为和态度联系起来，使科学和社会科学多个学科的研究人员能够开展一系列与计划和政策相关的研究。然而，对于许多研究人员来说，一个关键的问题是儿童和青少年的发展轨迹与随后的成年成功和幸福之间的后续联系。将这些数据收集扩展到2016年，将使研究人员和政策分析师能够探索科学界核心兴趣的内代和跨代研究主题，重点关注20多岁和30多岁以及40多岁的成年人。NLSY79 YA数据集具有与公共卫生相关的其他特性。关于健康和环境的数据是同时和经常收集的，包括兄弟姐妹和表兄弟姐妹，黑人和西班牙裔的比例过高。从每个儿童的母亲到儿童时期以及从那以后的每个青少年时期收集了有关健康的信息。青少年健康信息可与孕产妇在青春期和成年期的健康行为以及产前和产后行为联系起来。它还提供了一个机会，开始整理疾病的代际转移，如糖尿病和哮喘。2012年收集DNA将有助于解决基因与环境的相互作用，因为每一轮调查都收集了住宅和家庭环境数据。我们的亲属关系结构将进一步促进生物学和社会科学交叉领域的开创性研究，我们的大量黑人和西班牙裔样本将允许分析特别考虑种族/民族差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our primary objectives are 1) to extend the NLSY79 Young Adult (YA) data collection for youth age 21 and over through the 2012, 2014 and 2016 data collection rounds and 2) to enhance our prior YA data by including additional information from YA parents on the home environment and behavior of their children, asking more mental and physical health questions, and collecting saliva samples to provide DNA. These youth represent the oldest children born to NLSY79 female respondents. The ongoing grant has provided funds for interviews with youth age 21 and over in 2008/2010. With NICHD support, all NLSY79 children have received a variety of cognitive and socio-emotional assessments biennially since 1986. Young adults ages 15 and over were first interviewed in 1994 and were asked questions paralleling those asked of their mothers in their adolescent years. Interviews with the NLSY79 YAs ages 21 and over have been funded by a grant from NICHD since 2000, again including questions paralleling those asked of their mothers at the same ages. Linking the child data with a range of maternal, family and child attributes, behaviors and attitudes from the full NLSY79 life span has permitted researchers across multiple disciplines in the sciences and social sciences to carry out a range of programmatic and policy- relevant research. For many researchers, however, a critical issue concerns subsequent connections between the developmental trajectory in childhood and adolescence and subsequent adult success and well-being. Extending this data collection through 2016 will enable researchers and policy analysts to explore both within- and cross-generational research topics of core interest to the scientific community, focused on adults through their 20s and 30s, and into their 40s. The NLSY79 YA data set has other qualities relevant to public health. Data on health and environment have been collected on a contemporaneous and frequent basis, siblings and cousins are included, and blacks and Hispanics are overrepresented. Information has been collected on health from each child's mother through childhood and from each YA since. YA health information can be connected with maternal health behaviors during adolescence and adulthood, and with pre- and post-natal behaviors. It additionally offers the opportunity to begin sorting out cross-generational transferences of illnesses such as diabetes and asthma. Collecting DNA in 2012 will facilitate addressing gene-environment interactions as residential and family environment data have been collected every survey round. Our kinship structure will further enable groundbreaking research at the intersection of the biological and social sciences, and our large samples of blacks and Hispanics will allow for analyses to specifically consider racial/ethnic differences.