Alternative title
SHARE Wave 4
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.
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. (2019). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 4. Release version: 7.0.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w4.700
Please also cite the following publications in addition to the SHARE acknowledgement:
- 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.
- Malter, F., Börsch-Supan, A.(Eds.) (2013). SHARE Wave 4: Innovations & Methodology. Munich: MEA, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
- Börsch-Supan, A., Brandt, M., Hunkler, C., Kneip, T.
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
SHARE ERIC, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA)Identifiers
Data contains personal data
No
Unit of analysis
Population
Individuals aged 50 years or over and their (younger) partners having their regular domicile in the respective SHARE country
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
2010–2012
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Austria
Geographic description: 16 European countries
Lowest geographic unit
Country
Highest geographic unit
Country
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)
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
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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)