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FPG Project Summary

An Ethnography of Rural Communities, Families, and Young Children

This project has been completed

This project is an RO1 of the Family Life Project. This ethnographic project in 6 rural counties in NC and PA will conduct fine-grained assessments, over time, of the relationship between community forces and resources, social networks, family routines and adaptations, and the development of infant and preschool children. Linda Burton at Penn State University and Debra Skinner at UNC-Chapel Hill are co-PIs.

Principal Investigator(s): Debra Skinner
Funding Agency(ies): National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services
Funding Dates: Started: 07/01/2002     Ended: 06/30/2008
Project Email: skinner@mail.fpg.unc.edu

NC Counties Served: Sampson, Wayne, Wilson
US States Served: North Carolina, Pennsylvania
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