Integrated Global Health on Child Health and Development

项目摘要/摘要 该项目将开发一个强大的综合数据库，用于研究全球孕产妇和儿童的变化 健康。该项目将在IPUMS模式的基础上，协调多个指标类集调查 全球南欧和东欧国家，创建一致的微观数据和文件。麦克风 包括代表世界一半以上儿童和妇女的数据，以及来自90多个国家的调查数据 最早可以追溯到20世纪90年代末。通过联合国儿童基金会(儿童基金会)之间的伙伴关系筹集 和参与国，MICS是第一个专注于以下许多主题的大规模比较调查 对儿童的极端重要性，例如童工和暴力管教经历。而其他全球 健康调查基本上忽略了5岁到14岁之间的关键年龄段，年龄较大的儿童和青少年是 MICS中的核心样本组件。此外，MICS是唯一一项定期收集大量数据的全球调查 关于孤儿的健康信息，在一些撒哈拉以南非洲地区，孤儿占幼儿的17%以上 国家。调查还扩展到儿童以外的领域，考虑生育偏好、健康行为、 15-49岁成年人的知识和幸福感。几乎总是在国家和区域一级具有代表性， MIC在构建国家内边缘化社区的代表性样本方面也是例外的， 例如难民、受冲突影响地区的个人和少数群体。尽管它具有巨大的价值 MICS，目前使用MICS微数据存在主要障碍。变量名称、响应代码、值 标签和宇宙在不同国家和同一国家内随着时间的推移是不一致的。信息是 不可预测地划分到多个文件中(例如，妇女、家庭成员、儿童)。关于这种情况的文档 问题措辞、文件链接方向、权重问题和抽样等关键问题不标准化和 分散的。对于四分之一的MICS调查，文档以及变量和值标签可在 仅限法语、葡萄牙语或西班牙语。 该项目将通过一个方便用户的互联网接入工具免费传播统一的微数据， 使研究人员能够在信息丰富的环境中设计比较研究。这款集成麦克风 (IPUMS MICS)将大大减少进行和复制复杂的跨国工作所需的工作量 以及与微观数据的跨时间分析。通过消除重复工作，它将促进成本效益 将稀缺资源用于人口和卫生研究。它将减少研究人员在研究过程中引入的错误 在不完全了解不兼容性的情况下组合数据集。最重要的是，IPUMS MICS将刺激新的 对与NICHD使命直接相关的主题进行调查，帮助我们了解深刻的变化 在妇幼保健和福祉方面，这正在重塑世界。

Project Summary/Abstract This project will develop a powerful integrated database for studying global transformations of maternal and child health. Building on the IPUMS model, the project will harmonize Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) across countries of the Global South and Eastern Europe, creating consistent microdata and documentation. MICS include data representing over half the world's children and women, with survey data from over 90 countries dating back to the late 1990s. Collected via partnerships between the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and participating countries, MICS were the first large-scale comparative surveys to focus on many topics of critical importance to children, such as child labor and experiences with violent discipline. While other global health surveys largely ignore the crucial years between age five and 14, older children and adolescents are a core sample component in MICS. In addition, MICS are the only global surveys that routinely gather extensive health information on orphans, who constitute upwards of 17% of young children in some sub-Saharan African countries. The surveys also extend beyond children to consider the fertility preferences, health behaviors, knowledge, and well-being of adults age 15-49. Nearly always representative at the national and regional levels, MICS are also exceptional for constructing representative samples of marginalized communities within countries, such as refugees, individuals in areas affected by conflict, and minority groups. Despite the immense value of MICS, there are currently major barriers to using the MICS microdata. Variable names, response codes, value labels, and universes are inconsistent across countries and over time within the same country. Information is divided unpredictably among multiple files (e.g., women, household members, children). Documentation on such key issues as question wording, file-linking directions, weighting issues, and sampling is unstandardized and dispersed. For one-quarter of MICS surveys, documentation, as well as variable and value labels, is available in French, Portuguese, or Spanish only. The project will freely disseminate the harmonized microdata through a user-friendly Internet access tool, allowing researchers to design comparative studies in an information-rich environment. This integrated MICS (IPUMS MICS) will dramatically reduce the effort required to conduct and replicate sophisticated cross-national and cross-temporal analyses with the microdata. By eliminating duplicated effort, it will promote the cost-effective use of scarce resources for demographic and health research. It will reduce errors introduced when researchers combine datasets without fully understanding incompatibilities. Most importantly, IPUMS MICS will stimulate new investigations on topics directly related to the mission of NICHD, helping us understand the profound changes in maternal and child health and well-being that are reshaping the world.