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HEALTH & RETIREMENT STUDIES

The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) began in 1992 as a nationally representative, longitudinal, multidisciplinary survey of individuals over age 50 in the United States. Since then, it has been fielded every 2 years with periodic refresher samples to maintain a nationally representative sample over time. As population aging has progressed in every region of the world, the success of the HRS generated substantial interest in collecting similar data in a similar manner, leading to the development of a number of surveys designed to be comparable with the HRS.

The HRS family of studies share some common characteristics including being population representative of older adults, longitudinal, multidisciplinary, having coordinated survey instruments, enhanced economic data, and integrated biomarkers. All HRS family studies distribute their data to the research community.

OVERVIEW


Find information about each study catalogued by the Gateway

study full name countries year started
HRS Health and Retirement Study United States 1992
MHAS Mexican Health and Aging Study Mexico 2001
ELSA English Longitudinal Study of Ageing England 2002
SHARE Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe 20+ European countries & Israel 2004
CRELES Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study Costa Rica 2005
KLoSA Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging Korea 2006
JSTAR Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement Japan 2007
TILDA The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing Ireland 2010
CHARLS China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study China 2011
HAALSI Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa South Africa 2014
NICOLA Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing Northern Ireland 2014
ELSI Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging Brazil 2015

HART

Health, Aging, and Retirement in Thailand Thailand 2015
LASI Longitudinal Aging Study in India India 2017

SPS

Chilean Social Protection Survey Chile 2017
MARS Malaysia Ageing and Retirement Survey Malaysia 2018
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