Archiving Nuptiality Pandemic Data

摘要 尽管新冠肺炎大流行的影响和各州的缓解政策各不相同，但它引发了许多 仍然不清楚对许多生活领域的影响，包括健康和福祉 美国家庭。需要更动态、更及时的数据来跟踪美国人对 大流行。由于婚姻和离婚重要统计系统的恶化和资金短缺，最近 每月的州级结婚和离婚数据不能以便于分析的格式从一个来源获得 在前所未有的时间里，削弱了我们理解结婚和离婚中的地理差异的能力 世界历史。虽然一些健康和生命统计数据的可获得性在整个 在这场危机中，关于大流行对婚姻行为影响的高质量数据还无法获得，更不用说 与时俱进。现有的调查数据，如通过美国社区调查收集的数据，已经 由于低响应率和高无响应偏向而受到影响。此外，他们不提供月度数据。 没有任何中央地点或机构负责提供每月关于婚姻和 在州一级离婚。呼吁注意结构性决定因素(例如，政治、法律、政策、 在州一级，来自几个组成集团。尽管受到关注的重要性 国家级别的、及时的数据和单个研究人员为填补这一空白所做的努力、动态的时间和空间 自2020年3月以来，大流行如何影响结婚和离婚模式的变化尚不清楚。 我们的目标是继续我们过去在管理婚姻和离婚数据归档方面的努力，并扩大 这些努力将每月州一级的结婚和离婚统计存档，计算每月调整后的婚姻 和离婚率，并以广泛可获取的方式传播这些数据，从而使 由更广泛的研究社区、计划工作人员和实践者社区提供。这些努力将使 研究人员将结婚和离婚数据与现有数据联系起来--这是该项目指定的一个具体目的 公告。我们的第三个也是最后一个目标是通过国家家庭和家庭中心传播数据 婚姻研究与人口统计研究网站的数据共享。传播量将会增加 许多潜在数据用户都意识到了这些有价值的数据。这个创新的项目完全符合 PDB的使命是提高关于家庭和家庭的知识和数据可用性。这反过来又是 预计将增强当前可用的数据，并通过增加 可访问性和效率。该申请与R03机制的目的一致，并且该特定 计划公告，并将向多学科的研究人员、政策制定者和 从业者。

Abstract Despite the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the varying state-level mitigation policies it triggered much remains unknown regarding the effects on a multitude of life domains, including the health and well-being of American families. There is a need for more dynamic and timely data to track how Americans are responding to the pandemic. Due to the deterioration and defunding of the marriage and divorce vital statistics system, recent monthly state-level marriage and divorce data are not available from one source in analysis-friendly formats crippling our capacity to understand geographic variation in marriage and divorce at an unprecedented time in world history. While the availability of some health and vital statistics data has become widespread throughout this crisis, high-quality data on the pandemic effects on marriage behavior have not been accessible, let alone kept pace. Existing survey data, such as that collected via the American Community Survey has been compromised due to low response rates and high nonresponse bias. Further, they do not provide monthly data. No centralized location or agency is responsible for providing monthly administrative data on marriage and divorce at the state level. Calls for attention on the effects of structural determinants (e.g., political, legal, policy, and economic) at the state-level have come from several constituent groups. Despite the spotlighted importance of state-level, timely data, and efforts of individual researchers to fill this gap, dynamic temporal, and spatial variation in how the pandemic has affected marriage and divorce patterns since March of 2020 remain unknown. Our objective is to continue our past efforts in archiving administrative marriages and divorce data and expand those efforts to archive monthly state-level marriage and divorce counts, compute monthly adjusted marriage and divorce rates at the state-level and disseminate these data in widely accessible manner enabling the usage by the broader research community, program staff, and practitioner communities. These efforts will enable researchers to link marriage and divorce data to existing data—a specifical designated purpose of this program announcement. Our third and final aim will be to disseminate the data via the National Center for Family & Marriage Research and the Data Sharing for Demographic Research websites. The dissemination will increase awareness of these valuable data across many potential data users. This innovative project fits squarely with the PDB mission to enhance knowledge and data availability on families and households. This, in turn, is expected to enhance currently available data and increase their potential scientific impact through increased accessibility and efficiency. The application is consistent with the purpose of the R03 mechanism and this specific program announcement and will offer a resource to a multidisciplinary set of researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.