SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Responsible department/unit for data included in the collection

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

Description

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), is a longitudinal micro-data infrastructure created in response to a communication by the European Commission (2000) to the Council and the European Parliament, which identified population ageing and its social and economic challenges to growth and prosperity to be among the most pressing challenges of the 21st century in Europe. SHARE has also become one of the most prestigious social science infrastructures and was in 2011 the first to be appointed a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) by the European Council.
The overarching objective of SHARE is to better understand the interactions between bio-medical factors, the socio-economic environment and policy interventions in the ageing European populations. SHARE aims to achieve this objective by providing a research infrastructure for fundamental science as well as a tool for policy evaluation and design. Initiated in 2002, SHARE is scheduled to launch, all in all, 10 data collection waves. At present eight waves have been fulfilled and seven waves are available to th

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Kind of collection

Series

Subject area

DEMOGRAPHY (POPULATION, VITAL STATISTICS, AND CENSUSES), General health and well-being (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy, Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Social Sciences, Social and Economic Geography, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

ageing, population distribution, demography, demographic statistics, vital statistics, ageing population

Geographic location

Sweden, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Ireland

Publications

Börsch-Supan, A. (2019). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 7. Release version: 7.1.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w7.710

Börsch-Supan, A. (2020). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 6. Release version: 7.1.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w6.710

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Related data in SND's catalogue

SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Wave 7

SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Wave 6

SHARE – Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Wave 5

SHARE – Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Wave 4

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

SHARE – Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Wave 2

SHARE – Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe - Wave 1

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