Grandparent Families in the 2000 Census

描述(申请人提供)：这项研究的目的是对祖父母家庭进行人口统计分析，重点是这些家庭按种族和族裔划分的患病率和特征的差异。根据1996年《福利改革法》的要求，人口普查局在2000年人口普查中提出了关于祖父母对孙子孙女负有责任的问题，这是第一次对这一问题进行系统的全国评估。基于这些数据，该项目调查了没有父母的祖父母家庭(“隔代”家庭)，以及至少包括一位父母的祖父母家庭(“三代”家庭)。这项拟议的研究有四个具体目标：(1)对祖父母家庭的种族和民族血统群体的流行率进行国家估计。这项活动首次评估了这种行为在各种族群体中广泛发生的程度，或者集中在少数几个种族群体中。(2)概述每种类型祖父母家庭的关键家庭特征和资源。这项研究考察了三代家庭的资源基础和家庭特征，以及这些特征在种族/民族之间的差异。除财政资源外，还介绍了与残疾状况、劳动力活动、移民身份和公民身份以及英语熟练程度有关的特征。(3)评估三代家庭中最年长和中代的资源平衡情况。对祖父母报告对子女的责任的家庭和祖父母没有报告这种责任的家庭的资源平衡进行了比较。这项研究提供了证据，说明父母和祖父母的特征差异(如工作状况差异、低收入、残疾)如何与家庭的人口统计特征和对子女的责任特征有关。(4)提供包括祖父母家庭数据在内的微数据文件。将数据传播给学术界和政策界的广泛研究人员，将进一步增进对祖父母家庭的了解。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this study is to conduct a demographic analysis of grandparent households, focusing on differences in prevalence and characteristics of these households by race and ethnicity. As required by the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, the Census Bureau developed questions included in the 2000 Census of Population about grandparents who were responsible for their grandchildren living in the same household, allowing systematic national assessment of this issue for the first time. Based on these data, this project examines grandparent households that include no parents ("skipped-generation" households) as well as the much larger pool of grandparent households that include at least one parent ("three-generation" households). Four specific aims guide the proposed study: (1) To develop national estimates of the prevalence of grandparent households for race and national origin groups. This activity provides for the first time an assessment of the extent to which this behavior is occurring broadly across racial groups or, instead, concentrated in a few racial groups. (2) To profile the key household characteristics and resources within each type of grandparent household. This study examines the resource base and household characteristics of three-generation families, and the variation across race/ethnic groups in those features. In addition to financial resources, characteristics relating to disability status, labor force activity, immigration status and citizenship, and English proficiency are profiled. (3) To evaluate the resource balance of the oldest and middle generations within three-generation households. The resource balance is compared for households in which the grandparent reports responsibility for the child, and those in which the grandparent does not report such responsibility. The study provides evidence on how differences in the characteristics of the parents and of the grandparents (e.g., differences in work status, low income, disability) are related to the demographic features of the household and the characterization of responsibility for children. (4) To make available micro data files including data for grandparent families. Dissemination of the data to a wide range of researchers in the academic and policy communities will further advance the understanding of grandparent families.