Overview
Health & Retirement Studies: Core Content Areas
| Demographic | Education, marital status, age, resident, birth year, birth month |
| Health | Cognition, disease, depression, injury, physical functioning, physical measures, health behaviors |
| Health Services | Insurance, utilization, expenditure, out-of-pocket spending |
| Work & Employment | Employment status/history, labor force, earnings, disability, retirement, type of work, pension |
| Economic Status | Earnings, asset income, government transfers, pension, financial assets, housing, non-financial assets |
| Family Structure & Social Network |
Parents' information, household structure, family exchange, family support, social participation |
Harmonized Data
Harmonized datasets are created to provide harmonized measures of HRS-type studies
- Variables are defined as similarly as possible to the RAND HRS
- Combined all waves with one record per individual
- Same variable naming as in RAND HRS (r1work)
- Country specific variable name (r1lbrf_c)
- Spouse versions of most variables are also created (s2work)
What's New
- Register for an upcoming webinar
- Now Accepting Applications for Postdocs for Appointment in 2022-2023
- Now Hiring: Research Programmer I
- Harmonized MHAS Version b.4 now available!
- Harmonized HRS Version C now available
- Harmonized CHARLS Version D now available
- Harmonized MHAS End of Life Version A now available
- Harmonized ELSA End of Life Version A.2 now available
- Harmonized ELSA Version G.2 now available
- Harmonized LASI Version A now available
- Aging data from India now available!
