SHARE – Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Wave 3

SND-ID: ext0149-1.

Is part of collection at SND: SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w3.800

Citation

Alternative title

The Retrospective Survey (SHARELIFE)

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Axel Börsch-Supan - Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA)

Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA)

Research principal

SHARE ERIC - Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA)

Description

SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database. It provides micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of thousands individuals aged 50 or over and their (younger) partners.
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe seeks to analyse the process of population ageing in depth.

Copyright © Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) 2012

When using data from this dataset, please cite the dataset as follows:
Börsch-Supan, A. (2022). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 3 – SHARELIFE. Release version: 8.0.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w3.800

Please also cite the following publications in addition to the SHARE acknowledgement:
- Börsch-Supan, A., M. Brandt, K. Hank and M. Schröder (Eds). (2011). The individual and the welfare state. Life histories in Europe. Heidelberg: Springer.
- Schröder, M. (2011). Retrospective data collection in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. SHARELIFE methodology. Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA).
- Börsch-Supan, A., Brandt, M., Hunkler, C., Kneip, T., Korbmacher, J., Malter, F., Schaan, B., Stuck, S., Zuber, S. (2013). Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). International Journal of Epidemiology DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt088. Show less..

Data contains personal data

Yes

Sensitive personal data

Yes

Type of personal data

Pseudonymised data

Code key exists

Yes

Language

English

Method and outcome

Unit of analysis

Individual

Population

Individuals aged 50 years or over and their (younger) partners having their regular domicile in the respective SHARE country

Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random

Time period(s) investigated

2008 – 2011

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Data collection

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria

Geographic description: 14 European countries

Lowest geographic unit

Country

Highest geographic unit

Country

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA)

Funding 1

Funding agency: US National Institute on Aging

Funding 2

Funding agency: European Union

Funding 3

Funding agency: German Federal Ministry for Education and Research

Topic and keywords

Research area

Health care service and management, health policy and services and health economy (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Public health, global health, social medicine and epidemiology (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Social sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Social and economic geography (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Social sciences interdisciplinary (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Demography (population, vital statistics, and censuses) (CESSDA Topic Classification)

General health and well-being (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Keywords

Ageing, Population distribution, Demography, Demographic statistics, Vital statistics, Ageing population, Cors

Publications