# AGING AND THE FAMILY OVER THE LIFE COURSE

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · 1992 · $400,000

## Abstract

We propose to reinterview the National Survey of Families and Households
sample in 1992-93, five years after the original interview.  The 1987-88
NSFH was a comprehensive survey of American family life, involving
interviews with a probability sample of over 13,000 adults (as well as
their spouse/partner when married or cohabiting).  The NSFH was planned to
include a followup interview to permit the prospective investigation of
family phenomena.  In addition to interviewing the original respondent, we
will interview his/her current spouse or partner, the original
spouse/partner (if the relationship has terminated) and, where appropriate,
a parent of the respondent age 60 and older.

The reinterview will cover most of the same domains of family experience as
NSFH1, including (1) updating marriage and cohabitation, fertility,
household composition, education, and work histories; (2) quality of
relationship between spouse/partners; (3) parenting practices and
parent-child relationships; (4) relationships between parents and their
absent minor children; (5) relationship of parents with young adult
children; (6) health and well-being; (7) Kinship and social support -
parents, adult children, other kin and non-kin; (8) attitudes, opinions,
normative statements regarding family issues; and (9) economic situation -
current employment status, income by source of each household member,
assets, debt, division of household labor.  The proposed telephone
interview with a parent of the respondent will give us a unique ability to
examine intergenerational relationships between middle-aged adults and
their parents as dyads, in much the same way as we analyze data obtained
from both spouses or from children and their parents.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3122227
- **Project number:** 1R01AG010266-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
- **SAM.gov UEI:** LCLSJAGTNZQ7
- **Principal Investigator:** LARRY L BUMPASS
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1992
- **Award amount:** $400,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 1992-05-15 → 1996-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3122227

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3122227, AGING AND THE FAMILY OVER THE LIFE COURSE (1R01AG010266-01). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3122227. Licensed CC0.

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