DataSet

Institute for Fiscal Studies

ELSA

The survey covers the broad set of topics relevant to a full understanding of the ageing process, these include: Health, disability, healthy life expectancy; The relationship between economic position and both physical and cognitive health; The determinants of economic position in older age; The timing and circumstances of retirement and post-retirement labour market activity; The nature of social networks, support and participation; Household and family structure and the transfer of resources.

Aged; Aged; 80 and over; Aging; Cross-Sectional Studies; Great Britain; Health Status; Longitudinal Studies

United Kingdom

Aged: 65 + years; 80 and older: 80 + years

The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing is an interdisciplinary data resource on health, economic position and quality of life as people age. ELSA is the first study in the UK to connect the full range of topics necessary to understand the economic, social, psychological and health elements of the ageing process. The aim of ELSA is to explore the unfolding dynamic relationships between health, functioning, social networks and economic position. It is in effect a study of people's quality of life as they age beyond 50 and of the factors associated with it.

Sheps Center, UNC-CH

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The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing

The survey sample is drawn from respondents to the Health Survey for England (HSE) - a study conducted jointly by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, and the National Centre for Social Research, on behalf of the Department of Health. Around 12,000 respondents from three separate years of the HSE survey were recruited to provide a representative sample of the English population aged 50 and over. The initial sample is of individuals aged 50 years and over resident in the household sector in England. The major advantage of the HSE sampling source is that baseline data on respondents' health (details of morbidity, lifestyle, diets and blood samples) had already been collected before the first wave of data collection began.

1998 - present

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