Alternative title
SHARE Wave 6
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)
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 the
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English
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA)
Identifiers
Data contains personal data
No
Ethics Review
Umeå - Ref. 2013-470-32Ö
Umeå - Ref. 2014/225-31
Unit of analysis
Population
Individuals aged 50 years or over and their partners having their regular domicile in the respective SHARE country
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
2015 – 2015
Research 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)
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
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w6.710
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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)