HRS Minority Sample Expansion Competitive Revision

描述（由申请人提供）：这是健康和退休研究（HRS）第17-22年的竞争延续提案。我们建议继续按照上一次更新中的稳态设计收集核心数据，包括在2010年增加一个新的队列;在我们对痴呆症患病率的子研究的基础上，检查发病率;增加生物样本的收集，包括DNA和心理社会内容;并继续使用关于特别专题的邮寄调查，包括继续对大约一半的抽样进行消费和时间使用的纵向计量，作为对核心数据收集的低成本补充。本提案涵盖2006年1月1日至2011年12月31日期间。 HRS为研究老龄化的健康、经济和人口统计学的科学和政策研究人员提供了一个独特的、丰富的、具有全国代表性的纵向数据集。它提供了一个研究数据库，可以同时支持美国50岁以上人口的横截面描述，在相当长的一段时间内对给定队列的纵向研究以及对跨队列趋势的研究。到2010年，HRS将能够支持1992年、1998年和2004年进入50岁的人的健康、劳动力供应或财富积累轨迹的跨队列比较。 HRS项目创建了一个超出核心调查数据的数据系统。这一扩展数据系统的一个组成部分包括与行政数据的链接，包括社会保障收入和福利记录、医疗保险使用和诊断记录、雇主养老金记录和国家死亡指数。我们计划扩大这些联系，包括从最小数据集的养老院居民的信息，并探讨与医疗补助记录的联系。 第二个组成部分是使用HRS调查作为抽样框架，以支持针对特定疾病或主题领域的深入子研究。HRS数据系统的第三个方面，这不是HRS项目的正式组成部分，是在其他国家出现了一套老龄化纵向研究，这些研究有意识地设计，以产生尽可能与HRS收集的数据可比的数据。HRS提供公共使用数据，旨在让美国科学界的全部力量和创造力来应对人口老龄化的挑战。HRS正在通过研究者发起的研究对老龄化研究产生重大影响，该研究使用HRS作为研究人员或授权机构的免费投入。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is competing continuation proposal for Years 17-22 of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We propose to continue core data collection on the steady-state design laid out in the previous renewal, including the addition of a new cohort in 2010; to build on our sub-study of prevalence of dementia to examine incidence; to add the collection of biological samples, including DNA, and psychosocial content; and to continue the use of mail surveys on special topics, including continued longitudinal measurement of consumption and time use for about half of the sample, as a low-cost complement to the core data collection. This proposal includes the period from January 1,2006 through December 31, 2011. HRS provides a uniquely rich, nationally representative longitudinal dataset for the community of scientific and policy researchers who study the health, economics and demography of aging. It provides a research data base that can simultaneously support cross-sectional descriptions of the U.S. population over the age of fifty, longitudinal studies of a given cohort over a substantial period of time and research on cross-cohort trends. By 2010 the HRS will be able to support cross-cohort comparisons of trajectories of health, labor supply, or wealth accumulation for persons who entered their 50'sin 1992, 1998 and 2004. The HRS project creates a data system extending beyond the core survey data. One component of this extended data system consists of linkages to administrative data, including Social Security earnings and benefit records, Medicare utilization and diagnostic records, employer pension records, and the National Death Index. We plan to expand these linkages to include information on nursing home residents from the Minimum Data Set and to explore linkages to Medicaid records. A second component is the use of the HRS survey as a sampling frame to support in-depth sub-studies targeted on specific diseases or topic areas. A third aspect of the HRS data system, which is not formally part of the HRS project, is the emergence of a set of longitudinal studies of aging in other countries which have been consciously designed to produce data as comparable as possible to that collected by the HRS. The HRS provides public use data designed to allow the full power and creativity of America's scientific community to address the challenges of an aging population. The HRS is making a significant impact on research on aging through investigator-initiated research which uses the HRS as an input without charge to researchers or granting agencies.