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)
