PSID, CDS, and TA: Data Enhancements and User Training, Support, and Outreach

 描述（由申请人提供）：该项目将进行一套综合的数据增强和用户教育，支持和推广工作，以扩大研究和政策界对收入动态小组研究（PSID），PSID儿童发展补充（CDS）和PSID过渡到成年（TA）研究数据的使用。PSID是一项始于1968年的美国家庭全国代表性样本的纵向调查。收集了46年来38波相同家庭及其后代的数据（截至2014年），PSID是美国实证社会科学研究的基石。CDS通过三轮数据收集，在1997年，2002/03年，2007/08。从2005年开始（并持续到2015年），当CDS的孩子年满18岁并完成高中学业时，他们接受了两年一度的TA研究的采访。由此产生的CDS-TA档案提供了队列中最年幼儿童的长达18年的信息。来自PSID、CDS和TA的数据被大量用户使用。然而，这些数据的复杂性和丰富性对于新用户，甚至对于许多有经验的分析师来说都是具有挑战性的。该项目的目标是使所有用户更容易和更有效地使用这些数据。该项目的具体目标是：每年为数据的新用户开设一个关于PSID数据分析的课程;通过提供高质量、快速反应的用户支助服务和通过用户联机设施，协助遇到复杂问题的研究人员;对PSID数据和传播进行各种增强，使新的和有经验的研究人员更快、更容易地利用这些数据进行研究。数据;举办年度用户研讨会，以促进新的和有经验的研究人员之间的交流和互动;并通过开展各种外展工作，增加PSID，CDS和TA用户社区的规模和学科气息。本项目的活动将进一步扩大PSID、CDS和TA数据的广泛使用，并将促进数据档案的新用户和有经验的用户有效和富有成效地使用这些数据。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will undertake an integrated set of data enhancements and user education, support, and outreach efforts to expand the research and policy communities' use of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the PSID Child Development Supplement (CDS), and the PSID Transition into Adulthood (TA) Study. PSID is a longitudinal survey of a nationally-representative sample of U.S. families that began in 1968. With data collected on the same families and their descendants for 38 waves over 46 years (as of 2014), PSID is a cornerstone for empirical social science research in the U.S. CDS followed a cohort of nearly 3,600 children from PSID families who were 0-12 years of age in 1997 through three rounds of data collection, in 1997, 2002/03, and 2007/08. Beginning in 2005 (and continuing through 2015), when children from the CDS turned 18 years of age and completed high school they were interviewed as part of the biennial TA study. Together, the resulting CDS-TA archive provides up to 18 years of information on the youngest children in the cohort. Data from PSID, CDS, and TA are used by a very large group of users. However, the complexity and richness of these data can be challenging for new users and even for many experienced analysts. The goal of this project is to make the use of these data easier and more efficient for all users. The specific aims of this project are to: teach an annual course on PSID data analysis geared to new users of the data; assist researchers who encounter complex problems by providing high quality, rapid response user-support services and through online facilities for users; undertake a variety of enhancements to PSID data and dissemination that will make it quicker and easier for both new and experienced researchers to conduct research with these data; conduct an annual user workshop to foster exchange and interaction among new and experienced researchers; and increase the size and disciplinary breath of the PSID, CDS, and TA user community by conducting a variety of outreach efforts. The activities in this project will further increase the widespread use of the PSID, CDS, and TA data, and will promote efficient and productive use of these data by new and experienced users of the data archive.