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Abstract：
Stockmanship is an important determinant for good animal welfare and health. The goal of the FarmMERGE project is to investigate the associations between farmer health and work environment, and the health, productivity and welfare of their livestock. We merged several livestock industry databases with a major total population-based health study in Norway (The Trøndelag Health Study 2017-2019 (HUNT4)). This paper describes the project\'s collection and merging of data, and the cohort of farmers and farms that were identified as a result of our registry merge. There were 56,042 participants of HUNT4 (Nord-Trøndelag County participants only, participation rate: 54.0%). We merged a list of HUNT4 participants whose self-reported main occupation was \"farmer\" (n = 2,407) with agricultural databases containing production and health data from sheep, swine, dairy and beef cattle from 2017-2020. The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities was used as an intermediary step to achieve a link between the farmer and farming enterprise data. We identified 816 farmers (89.5% male, mean age 51.3 years) who had roles in 771 farming enterprises with documented animal production. The cohort included 675 unique farmer-farm combinations in cattle production, 139 in sheep, and 125 in swine. We linked at least one HUNT4 participant to approximately 63% of the dairy farms, 53% of the beef cattle farms, 30% of the sheep farms, and 38% of the swine farms in Nord-Trøndelag County in the 2017-2019 period. Using existing databases may be an efficient way of collecting large amounts of data for research, and using total population-based human health surveys may decrease response bias. However, the quality of the resulting research data will depend on the quality of the databases used, and thorough knowledge of the databases is required.
摘要：
畜牧业是良好动物福利和健康的重要决定因素。FarmMERGE项目的目标是调查农民健康与工作环境之间的关联，和健康，他们牲畜的生产力和福利。我们将几个畜牧业数据库与挪威主要的基于总人口的健康研究（Trøndelag健康研究2017-2019（HUNT4））合并在一起。本文介绍了项目的数据收集和合并,以及由于我们的注册表合并而确定的农民和农场队列。HUNT4有56,042名参与者（仅Nord-Trøndelag县参与者，参与率：54.0%）。我们将一份自我报告的主要职业为“农民”的HUNT4参与者列表（n=2,407）与包含绵羊生产和健康数据的农业数据库合并，猪,2017-2020年奶牛和肉牛。法律实体中央协调登记册被用作实现农民和农业企业数据之间联系的中介步骤。我们确定了816名农民(89.5%是男性，平均年龄51.3岁），曾在771家有动物生产记录的养殖企业中工作。该队列包括675种牛生产中独特的农民-农场组合，139只羊，猪的125我们将至少一名HUNT4参与者与大约63％的奶牛场联系起来，53%的肉牛养殖场,30%的养羊场,2017-2019年期间，诺德-特伦德拉格县38%的猪场。使用现有数据库可能是收集大量数据进行研究的有效方法，使用基于总体人群的人类健康调查可以减少反应偏差。然而,由此产生的研究数据的质量将取决于所使用的数据库的质量，和数据库的全面知识是必需的。
