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Project Citation: 

Meyers, Keith, and Jensen, Peter. VALVAX. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-07-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E174961V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This study includes data related to the 2021-2022 European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Action titled: Valvax: Evaluating the Long-Run Socioeconomic Effects of Childhood Vaccination, project #890475. Records containing replication files and underlying data will be populated as research findings are published.

This project studies how the Salk vaccine trial broadly affected public health during the 1950s and 1960s. Involving over 1.8 million child participants, the Salk trial is the largest vaccine trials ever conducted. This trial provided access to the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), established vaccination programs in schools, and provided many parents information about the safety and benefits of childhood vaccination.

OVERVIEW 
dataset reference and name   
The VALVAX project uses already gathered data (reused) from both non-sensitive and sensitive sources. Below I describe the data sets constructed.

Non-sensitive data
DS1 - County by Year panel of mortality by select causes matched with public information on county characteristics and information on Salk trail participation, 1946 to 1970.
DS2 - County by Year panel of newspaper articles referencing specific terms matched with public information on county characteristics and information on Salk trail participation, 1950 to 1970.
Sensitive data
DS3 - Set of annual survey responses of individuals in NORC General Social Survey Data. Matched with geographic information on Salk trial participation by residence at age 16, 1977-2018. Geographic information used for data linkages is confidential due to contract with data owner, NORC.
DS4 - Individual level administrative data of complete count 2000 U.S. Census and SSA NUMIDENT. Geographically linked to Salk trial information. Restricted access. Data used under contract with US Census Bureau and Social Security Administration. 

 origin and expected size of the data generated/collected  
DS1 - approximately 50mb Underlying data re-used in DS1:   Salk Polio Vaccine Trial 1953 - 1957 County level information on vaccine trial.
-Francis, T., J. A. Napier, and R. F. Voight (1957). Evaluation of the 1954 Field trial of
poliomyelitis vaccine. Final report. Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center, department
of epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor,
Mich.
Demographic, Economic, and Social Data 1940-2002 Demographic controls for regressions.
- Haines, Michael R., and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2002. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-05-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02896.v3
U.S. County-Level Natality and Mortality Data 1915-2007 Linking health shocks to survey outcomes.
-Bailey, Martha, Clay, Karen, Fishback, Price, Haines, Michael R., Kantor, Shawn, Severnini, Edson, and Wentz, Anna. U.S. County-Level Natality and Mortality Data,  1915-2007. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-05-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36603.v2
U.S. Vital Statistics, Cause of Death
- Annual VSUS pdfs, Compressed Mortality File, Multiple Cause of Death File. National Center of Health Statistics 1946-1988 Linking health shocks to survey outcomes.
-National Center for Health Statistics (1958). Vital statistics of the United States 1946-
1958. U.S. Government Printing Office.
-National Center for Health Statistics (1967). Multiple Cause of Death Files: 1959-67.
-National Center for Health Statistics (1988). Compressed Mortality File: 1968-88.


DS2
- approximately 5mb
Underlying data re-used in DS2:   Demographic, Economic, and Social Data 1940-2002 Demographic controls for regressions.
- Haines, Michael R., and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2002. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-05-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02896.v3
Salk Polio Vaccine Trial 1953 - 1957 County level information on vaccine trial.
-Francis, T., J. A. Napier, and R. F. Voight (1957). Evaluation of the 1954 Field trial of
poliomyelitis vaccine. Final report. Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center, department
of epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor,
Mich.


DS3
- approximately 5mb
GSS data files -Smith, Tom W., Davern, Michael, Freese, Jeremy, and Morgan, Stephen L., General Social Surveys, 1972-2018 [machine-readable data file] /Principal Investigator, Smith, Tom W.; Co-Principal Investigators, Michael Davern, Jeremy Freese and Stephen L. Morgan; Sponsored by National Science Foundation. --NORC ed.-- Chicago: NORC, 2019. Demographic, Economic, and Social Data 1940-2002 Demographic controls for regressions.
- Haines, Michael R., and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2002. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-05-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02896.v3
Salk Polio Vaccine Trial 1953 - 1957 County level information on vaccine trial.
-Francis, T., J. A. Napier, and R. F. Voight (1957). Evaluation of the 1954 Field trial of
poliomyelitis vaccine. Final report. Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center, department
of epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor,
Mich.
 

DS4
- approximately 25gb
SSA NUMIDENT, list of all persons with a social security number, place of birth, date of birth, and date of death U.S. 2000 Census, full sample of long census form survey respondents with social security numbers linked to SSA NUMIDENT Salk Polio Vaccine Trial 1953 - 1957 County level information on vaccine trial.
-Francis, T., J. A. Napier, and R. F. Voight (1957). Evaluation of the 1954 Field trial of
poliomyelitis vaccine. Final report. Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center, department
of epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor,
Mich.

Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources European Commission (890475)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Salk Polio Vaccine Trial; vaccination; IPV
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1940 – 1970
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; census/enumeration data; images: photographs, drawings, graphical representations; survey data; text

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source
Bailey, Martha, Clay, Karen, Fishback, Price, Haines, Michael R., Kantor, Shawn, Severnini, Edson, and Wentz, Anna. U.S. County-Level Natality and Mortality Data,  1915-2007. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-05-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36603.v2

Francis, T., J. A. Napier, and R. F. Voight (1957). Evaluation of the 1954 field trial of
poliomyelitis vaccine. Final report. Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center, department
of epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor,
Mich.

Haines, Michael R., and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2002. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-05-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02896.v3

National Archives at College Park. Records Relating to the Polio Vaccine Distribution
Program, 1954 – 1960: Record Group 90.

UCSD Archives and Special Collections. Jonas Salk Papers, 1926-1991: Polio Files.

US. Bureau of the Census (1953). 1950 Census of Population: Volume 2. Characteristics of the Population. US Government Printing Office


Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit County

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