Measuring Marriage & Divorce at the County Level

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管美国的婚姻和离婚一直在变化，但积累和分发婚姻和离婚数据的重要统计数据基础设施却没有跟上步伐。 结婚和离婚人口动态统计系统的恶化和资金枯竭意味着了解结婚和离婚的地理差异的能力有限。美国社区调查的一个局限性是，它不能为所有县或县对等机构提供单一的结婚和离婚估计数，这在农村地区尤其成问题。没有一个县级婚姻和离婚数据的中央存储库。 若干组成团体要求提供当地家庭数据和评估数据质量。为了开始填补这一关键空白，我们建议通过生成2010年县级婚姻和离婚数据库来为研究界提供数据资源。 这一全面的数据库将确保包括农村地区。 第二个目标是分析2000年至2010年县级结婚和离婚的变化，评估可获得县级数据的县的ACS数据的质量，并通过将额外的数据与其他数据联系起来，检查结婚和离婚模式的空间变化。 县级数据。 这一创新项目完全符合PDB的使命，即加强对家庭和住户的知识和数据的提供。 该应用程序与R03机制的目的一致，并将为多学科研究人员提供资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Even though marriage and divorce in the United States has been shifting, the vital statistics data infrastructure to accumulate and distribute marriage and divorce data has not kept pace. The deterioration and defunding of the marriage and divorce vital statistics systems means there is limited capacity to understand geographic variation in marriage and divorce. A limitation of the American Community Survey is that it cannot provide a single point estimate of marriage and divorce for all counties or county equivalents, and this is especially problematic in rural areas. There is no central depository of al county-level marriage and divorce data. The call for local area family data and assessments of data quality has come from several constituent groups. To begin to fill this critical gap, we propose to provide a data resource to the research community by generating a 2010 county-level marriage and divorce database. This comprehensive database will ensure inclusion of rural areas. The secondary goals are to analyze change in county-level marriage and divorce from 2000 to 2010, assess the quality of ACS data in counties where county-level data are available, and examine spatial variation in patterns of marriage and divorce by linking additional county level data. This innovative project fits squarely with the PDB mission to enhance knowledge and data availability on families and households. The application is consistent with the purpose of the R03 mechanism and will offer a resource to a multidisciplinary set of researchers.