NIH 2000 Census Date Project

描述(由申请者提供)：大学间政治和社会研究联盟(ICPSR)将把2000年美国人口和住房普查的数据提供给广泛领域的研究人员，特别是人口和老龄化领域的研究人员。在这样做的过程中，它将收集、保存、增强和分发由美国人口普查局开发的数据。信息和通信技术中心还将为数据用户和数据图书馆管理员提供培训。该项目将促进研究人员的工作，从而产生巨大的规模经济。这些活动将由国际人口研究中心开展，还涉及与人口普查局以及密歇根大学和明尼苏达大学人口研究中心的合作安排。 该项目有六项主要活动：(1)获取和长期保存2000年人口和住房普查产生的数据。(2)重新编排普查数据的格式，以方便在统计分析程序中使用。(3)编制符合《数据文件倡议》标准的普查数据文件。(4)开发新的数据产品，包括特殊的子样和特殊的摘要文件，服务于学术研究人员的特殊需求。(5)提供基于网络的数据访问。这个基于网络的系统将包括一个数据查找器和定制子设置功能，使研究人员能够找到和获取特定研究应用所需的数据。(6)提供培训和推广活动，鼓励使用数据。 人口普查是关于美国的一系列研究主题的独特数据来源。在这里申请资金的情况下，人口普查中心提议收集和保存这些数据，将它们添加到以前人口普查的大量数据集合中，并广泛分发这些数据和有关这些数据的信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will make data from the 2000 Census of Population and Housing of the United States available to researchers in a broad array of fields, especially population and aging. In doing so, it will collect, preserve, enhance, and distribute data developed by the U.S. Census Bureau. ICPSR will also provide training to data users and data librarians. The project will lead to great economies of scale by facilitating the work of researchers. These activities will be conducted by ICPSR, and also involve collaborative arrangements with the Census Bureau and with the Population Studies Centers of the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota. This project has six key activities: (1 ) Acquisition and long-term archiving of data produced by the 2000 Censuses of Population and of Housing. (2) Re-formatting census data to facilitate use in statistical analysis programs. (3) Development of documentation for census data that is compliant with the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard. (4) Development of new data products, including special subsamples and special summary files, that serve the special needs of academic researchers. (5) Provision of web-based access to the data. The web-based system will include a data-finder and custom subsetting capabilities to allow researchers to find and acquire the data needed for specific research applications. (6) Provision of training and outreach activities to encourage use of the data. The Census is a unique source of data for a wide range of research topics about the United States. With the funding requested here, ICPSR proposes to collect and preserve those data, to add them to its large collection of data from earlier censuses, and to distribute those data and information about them widely.