Data Archiving and Dissemination for Comparative Population Science

项目总结 对人类行为、社会经验和总体健康的大型科学研究的创造 人口构成了过去50年数据创造投资的基石。因为数据来自 这些研究对于构建和评估公共政策和方案以改善 关于人口的健康和福祉，日内瓦排雷中心高度重视传播活动和 显著扩大此类数据的科学使用的工具。这些传播努力的一个关键限制是， 到目前为止，来自非美国人口的数据相对匮乏。传播严格的非美国人口 迫切需要数据资源来快速、轻松地测试关键社交媒体的外部有效性， 行为和公共卫生调查结果。 我们利用NICHD对尼泊尔奇特万山谷家庭研究(CVFS)的长期投资来 实现这一高优先级目标。CVFS是一种优秀的比较数据资源，其特点是25年 来自尼泊尔的小组研究具有许多重要特征。首先，CVFS旨在复制来自 最好的纵向研究，如收入动态小组研究和英国家庭小组 调查。其次，它旨在衡量社区级别随时间的变化，而不是 仅在个人和家庭层面。第三，CVFS衡量的是环境随时间的变化。第四， CVFS跟踪所有移民(包括个人和家庭)，无论他们搬到哪里，并定期 刷新移民样本。最后，CVFS新收集了来自 所有家庭成员，所有儿童的血液贫血筛查，以及关于所有人的新冠肺炎中断数据 家庭。尽管CVFS内容最初侧重于家庭和生育率，但现在它包括来自 儿童和青少年健康等领域。因此，CVFS是研究NICHD的无与伦比的资源 优先事项。 我们将改变对这一特殊资源的访问，重点放在CVFS数据的使用上， 特别设计的便于比较的措施，构造新的数据文件以加快数据链接 以及数据分析、构建新的学习工具和新的基于网络的分析工具。这些活动包括 专门设计用于提高CVFS与来自其他设置的数据之间的可比性的透明度 以帮助科学家进行这些比较。我们还将提高数据质量和用户体验，以便 这些多层次、25年、多主题的数据的复杂性并不是数据使用的障碍。无与伦比的 长寿、广度及其多层次(个人、家庭、社区)结构，CVFS是理想的 促进科学理解的国际比较研究和模型试验资源 许多高度优先的社会、行为和健康科学问题。

PROJECT SUMMARY The creation of large, scientific studies of human behavior, social experience, and health in the general population form the cornerstone of data creation investments of the past five decades. Because the data from these studies are essential for the construction and evaluation of public policies and programs to improve the health and wellbeing of the population, NICHD places a high scientific priority on dissemination activities and tools that significantly expand the scientific use of such data. A key limitation of these dissemination efforts, thus far, is a relative dearth of data from non-U.S. populations. Dissemination of rigorous non-U.S. population data resources are urgently needed to quickly and easily test the breadth of external validity of key social, behavioral, and public health findings. We leverage NICHD’s long-term investment in the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) in Nepal to achieve this high-priority objective. The CVFS is an excellent comparative data resource, featuring a 25-year panel study from Nepal with many important features. First, the CVFS was designed to replicate features from the best longitudinal studies, such as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the British Household Panel Survey. Second, it was designed to measure change over time in the community level, as opposed to the individual and household levels alone. Third, the CVFS measures environmental change over time. Fourth, the CVFS follows all migrants (both individuals and households), no matter where they move, and periodically refreshes the sample with in-migrants. Finally, the CVFS has newly collected saliva-based DNA samples from all family members, blood-based anemia screening for all children, and COVID-19 disruption data on all households. Though CVFS content originally focused on family and fertility, it now includes measures from domains such as child and adolescent health. The CVFS is thus an unparalleled resource for studying NICHD priorities. We will transform access to this special resource with changes focused on use of the CVFS data, measures specially designed to facilitate comparisons, construction of new data files to speed data linking and data analysis, construction of new learning tools, and new web-based analysis tools. The activities are specifically designed to improve the transparency of comparability between CVFS and data from other settings to assist scientists making these comparisons. We will also improve data quality and user experience so the complexity of these multilevel, 25-year, multi-topic data is not an obstacle to data use. Unmatched in longevity, breadth, and its multilevel (individual, household, community) structure, the CVFS is an ideal resource for international comparative research and model testing that advances the scientific understanding of many high-priority social, behavioral, and health science questions.