Pathways to Adulthood: A Three-Generation Urban Study, 1960-1994: [Baltimore, Maryland]

This collection incorporates both prospective and retrospective data on three generations of families initially living in inner-city Baltimore, Maryland. The prospective data were selected from data collected as part of the Johns Hopkins Collaborative Perinatal Study (JHCPS), a survey of pregnant women seeking prenatal care and delivery at Johns Hopkins Hospital during 1960-1964. JHCPS studied these women (the first-generation mothers, abbreviated as G1) and the children born to them during 1960-1965 (the second-generation children, abbreviated as G2) until the children were 8 years old. The retrospective data come from a follow-up study, conducted in 1992-1994, of G1, G2, and the children born to G2 (the third-generation children, abbreviated as G3). Data from JHCPS on G1 include obstetrical and reproductive history at registration for prenatal care, sociological/family history variables at or around delivery of G2, observations of mother with child when G2 was 4 months old and 8 months old, and family history, demographic, and sociological variables when G2 was age 7. For G2, the data from JHCPS include delivery room observations at birth, pediatric examination data at age 4 months, developmental evaluation data at age 8 months, pediatric-neurological examination data at age 12 months, language, hearing, and speech evaluation summary data at age 36 months, psychological, behavior profile, physical growth, and other tests at age 48 months, psychological, motor, behavior, neurological, vision, physical, and other tests at age 7-1/2 years, and language, hearing, and speech evaluations, physical growth, interval medical history, and other tests at age 8 years. Retrospective data from the follow-up study on G1 include variables on education, employment, family composition, health and health care usage, housing conditions, income and income sources, marital status, partnerships and changes, neighborhood characteristics at registration to JHCPS and current, and reproductive history. For G2, data from the follow-up include information on aspirations, education, schooling, employment, family composition, health and health care usage, housing conditions, income and income sources, legal problems, living arrangements, marriage, partnership and changes, neighborhood characteristics at birth, at ages 11/12 and 16/17, and current, reproductive history, social relationships, smoking, and substance abuse. Data for the assessed third-generation children, i.e., G3s who were 7-8 years old during the follow-up period, include information on cognitive development, academic achievement and behavior, prenatal care, health, day care, and parental aspirations.

本数据集整合了最初居住于美国马里兰州巴尔的摩市中心的三代家庭的前瞻性数据（prospective data）与回顾性数据（retrospective data）。前瞻性数据选自约翰霍普金斯协作围产期研究（Johns Hopkins Collaborative Perinatal Study, JHCPS）的部分采集数据——该研究于1960至1964年间对在约翰霍普金斯医院寻求产前护理及分娩服务的孕妇展开调查。JHCPS对这些女性（第一代母亲，缩写为G1）及其在1960至1965年间所生的子女（第二代儿童，缩写为G2）进行追踪研究，直至子女年满8岁。回顾性数据来源于1992至1994年间开展的一项随访研究，研究对象涵盖G1、G2及G2的子女（第三代儿童，缩写为G3）。JHCPS中G1的数据集包括：产前护理登记时的产科及生殖史、G2分娩期间或前后的社会学/家族史变量、G2 4月龄及8月龄时母婴互动观察数据，以及G2 7岁时的家族史、人口统计学与社会学变量。G2的JHCPS数据集包括：出生时的产房观察记录、4月龄儿科检查数据、8月龄发育评估数据、12月龄儿科神经学检查数据、36月龄语言、听力及言语评估汇总数据、48月龄心理、行为特征、体格生长及其他测试数据、7岁半时的心理、运动、行为、神经学、视力、体格及其他测试数据，以及8岁时的语言、听力及言语评估、体格生长、期间病史及其他测试数据。随访研究中G1的回顾性数据包括以下变量：教育程度、就业状况、家庭结构、健康状况及医疗服务使用情况、居住条件、收入及收入来源、婚姻状况、伴侣关系及变化、JHCPS登记时与当前的社区特征，以及生殖史。G2的随访数据包括：志向抱负、教育程度、就学情况、就业状况、家庭结构、健康状况及医疗服务使用情况、居住条件、收入及收入来源、法律问题、居住安排、婚姻状况、伴侣关系及变化、出生时、11/12岁、16/17岁及当前的社区特征、生殖史、社会关系、吸烟及物质滥用情况。在随访期间年龄为7-8岁的受评估第三代儿童（即G3）的数据包括：认知发展、学业成就与行为表现、产前护理、健康状况、日间照料及父母期望等信息。