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Organised by: Co-Sponsored: Malaysian Healthy Ageing Society Data Resources That Facilitate The Study Of Aging In Complex Societies: Tools and Opportunities James es W. McN cNally, Ph.D. NACDA A PROGRAM GRAM ON AGI GING UNIV IVERSITY
Organised by:
Malaysian Healthy Ageing Society
Co-Sponsored:
James es W. McN cNally, Ph.D. NACDA A PROGRAM GRAM ON AGI GING UNIV IVERSITY RSITY OF MIC ICHI HIGAN AN ANN ARB RBOR, OR, MI MI jmcn cnall lly@um y@umic ich.edu .edu www.icsp icspr.um .umic ich.ed h.edu
research tools that facilitate the study of the aging lifecourse.
three basic components:
are Easily Available to the Research Community
Education of Researchers
represents one of the world’s largest collections of research data on elderly populations.
Efficiency- Good secondary data should come in a format that facilitates research. Variety- Many if not most research questions can be explored with some existing data set. Theory Testing- Secondary data allows for the controlled testing of research framework in a manner that allows for replication. Generalizability- Secondary data using sampling distributions allows results to be generalized to a broader population.
Secondary data should be increasingly available as the internet facilitates the spread of these resources and allows them to be offered for little or no cost: Federal Resources: Federal websites can often offer access to vast storehouses of data. Does your Government share Data? University Resources: Universities often maintain private collections of research data from various sources. Does your University share data? Data Archives: Organizations that specialize in the preservation, enhancement and distribution of research data.
The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) is one such organization…
ISSUE 1 Provide Numerous Data Sets in Standard Formats. Make Them Easily Available to the Research Community
The NACDA data archive as spent the past 30 years identifying, gathering and organizing data on aging and the aging life course so we can share these resources with the research community. NACDA currently supports approximately 1,600 individual studies on ageing and health and adds 30 to 50 new studies to our collections each year.
NACDA is part of ICPSR
NACDA acquires and maintains numerous studies. For example, looking at topics addressed in this current session:
tudies dies on aspec ects ts of th the Oldest est Old: 512
tudies dies on aspec ects ts of Sleep: ep: 517
tudies dies on aspec ects ts of Acti tive e Aging: : 1,114
tudies dies on aspec ects ts of Co-reside sidence: nce: 63
tudies dies on aspec ects ts of Depression: ession: 769
tudies dies on aspec ects ts of Late te Life e Employment yment: : 534
tudies dies on aspec ects ts of Diabete etes: s: 572
tudies dies on n aspec ects ts of Str tress: ss: 42 423
NACDA maintains an extensive collection of “Metadata” or data about data. This includes survey questionnaires and codebooks that can be used to help develop new studies. All of these data and resources are available to any interested researcher at no cost.
Search for References to Studies Search for Variables
Select the variables of interest and generate a table, an ANOVA, correlation or Multivariate analysis online.
We have identified and catalogued
the data in our collections.
Training and Education Programs
GOOGLE: NACDA webinar on aging
research interests.
community…EVERYWHERE!!
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