Measurements and Methods | Carolina Population Center

One of the most important components in pushing forward the boundaries of population and aging research is the incorporation of new measures of health and well-being into surveys of individuals and households. Bringing biology into longitudinal social surveys has changed the population sciences. Many of these methods were pioneered by faculty at CPC, and our faculty continue to test and field innovative new approaches to data collection in the US and abroad.

Associated Projects

Accelerating the Integration of Novel Data Streams in Mathematical Models To enhance modeling utility in future public health emergencies and threats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the Infectious Disease Modeling and Analytics Initiative. This project strengthens and supports internal and external applied modeling and analytic work, and helps coordinate information across…

Add Health Epigenome Resource: Life course stressors and epigenomic modifications in adulthood The overall goals of this project are to investigate the influence of life course psychosocial stressors on DNA methylation and gene expression that may influence cardiometabolic health and depression in a US representative study of young adults. The findings from this study will have significant…

Add Health GWAS Data: User Support and Research Tools to Enable Widespread Access This project is developing tools to enable widespread access to and use of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data among respondents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). The intent is to make Add Health GWAS data more easily accessible, straightforward…

Add Health Wave VI Cognition and Early Risk Factors for Dementia Project The overall goal of this project is to collect and disseminate critical data on cognitive, physical, and sensory functioning and risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) in Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), when participants…

Black-White Differences in Life Course Exposure to Death: Consequences for Health Racial/ethnic disparities in life expectancy are well known, with particular disadvantage for black Americans, but scientists have not considered the potential damage to survivors; this project will focus on those survivors to provide the first population-based analysis of race/ethnic differences in exposure to the death…