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

This study is part of the collection SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Overview Description

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:

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.

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, CORS

Principal organisation:

SHARE ERIC

Accessibility status:

Access to data through an external actor
Data are accessible by order

Homepage:

http://www.share-project.org/home0/wave-1.html

Responsible department/unit:

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

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)

Identifiers:

SND-ID: EXT 0150

Alternative title:

SHARE Wave 4

Purpose:

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe seeks to analyse the process of population ageing in depth.

Description:

Time period(s) investigated:

2010 — 2012

Geographic spread:

Geographic location: Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Portugal, Slovenia, Hungary

Geographic description: 16 European countries

Lowest geographic unit:

Country

Highest geographic unit:

Country

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

Funding:

European Union

US National Institute on Aging

German Federal Ministry for Education and Research

Subject area:

Keywords:

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

Citation requirement:

This paper uses data from SHARE wave 4 release 1.1.1, as of March 28th 2013(DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w4.111). The SHARE data collection has been primarily funded by the European Commission through the 5th Framework Programme (project QLK6-CT-2001-00360 in the thematic programme Quality of Life), through the 6th Framework Programme (projects SHARE-I3, RII-CT-2006-062193, COMPARE, CIT5- CT-2005-028857, and SHARELIFE, CIT4-CT-2006-028812) and through the 7th Framework Programme (SHARE-PREP, N° 211909, SHARE-LEAP, N° 227822 and SHARE M4, N° 261982). Additional funding from the U.S. National Institute on Aging (U01 AG09740-13S2, P01 AG005842, P01 AG08291, P30 AG12815, R21 AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG BSR06-11 and OGHA 04-064) and the German Ministry of Education and Research as well as from various national sources is gratefully acknowledged (see www.share-project.org for a full list of funding institutions).

Börsch-Supan A., M. Brandt , H. Litwin and G. Weber (Eds). (2013). Active ageing and solidarity between generations in Europe: First results from SHARE after the economic crisis. Berlin: De Gruyter