SHARE-HRS Training Harmonization and Certification

描述(申请人提供)：SHARE，欧洲健康、老龄化和退休纵向调查，收集了2004/05和2006/07两波关于50岁以上欧洲公民的跨学科数据。15个国家的约3.5万人接受了采访。收集的数据包括健康变量、心理变量、经济变量和社会支持变量。Share是根据美国健康和退休研究(HRS)和英国老龄化纵向研究(ELSA)设计的。与这些调查的可比性是份额的核心目标。这些努力在很大程度上得到了欧盟委员会的资助，NIA提供了大量额外资金。欧盟委员会现已获得资金，以便在2008/09年度收集第三波数据，条件是除了核心变量外，还将收集受访者的生活史。生活史将总结过去发生的最重要的生活事件和福利国家干预。它们主要是为了了解欧洲过去不同的福利政策如何影响受访者目前的健康和就业状况。共享生活史模块是以2007年收集的ELSA生活史为蓝本的。实现与人力资源评估和ELSA的可比性有三种形式：(A)在设计阶段事前统一调查工具；(B)在数据收集阶段统一实地工作程序；(C)事后协调因各国体制差异而有所不同的变量。这项提议旨在继续保持人力资源司和SHARE之间在数据收集阶段协调实地工作程序方面非常成功的合作。由于SHARE具有多国家和多语种的性质，因此SHARE数据由每个国家的不同调查机构收集。这些调查机构有不同的背景、技能水平，而且往往程序特殊，在回答速度和实际答案方面，特别是在定性问题方面，损害了收集的数据的可比性。因此，在前两波中，Share采用了中央培训方法，外加全面的实地监测，前者转包给密歇根大学安娜堡分校的调查研究中心(SRC)，该中心也负责HRS培训。我们建议在第三波中继续并加强这一做法，以便不仅在欧洲份额成员国之间实现协调，而且在人力资源和份额之间实现协调。具体地说，该应用程序将资助SRC在2008/09浪潮中的培训员培训计划，以及通过SRC对培训方法的遵守认证。公共卫生相关性：不同国家的健康结果差异很大，不仅在美国和欧洲之间，而且在欧盟内部也是如此。该项目将使欧洲的卫生政策和健康结果数据与美国的类似数据保持一致，以便更好地了解过去的国际卫生政策差异如何影响当前的健康结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): SHARE, the longitudinal Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe, has collected two waves of interdisciplinary data on European citizens over the age of 50 in 2004/05 and 2006/07. About 35,000 individuals in 15 countries have been interviewed. Data collected include health variables, psychological variables, economic variables and social support variables. SHARE is designed after the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA). Comparability with these surveys is a core target of SHARE. These efforts have been largely funded by the European Commission, with substantial additional funding by NIA. The European Commission has now secured funding for a third wave of data to be collected in 2008/09 under the condition that in addition to the core variables life histories of the respondents will also be collected. The life histories will summarize the most important life events and welfare state interventions which have taken place during the past. They are primarily designed to understand how different past welfare policies in Europe have affected current health and employment status of the respondents. The SHARE life history module is closely modeled after the ELSA life histories collected in 2007. Achieving comparability with HRS and ELSA takes three forms: (a) ex-ante harmonization of the survey instrument at the design phase; (b) harmonization of fieldwork procedures at the data collection stage; and (c) ex-post harmonization of variables that differ due to institutional differences across countries. This proposal aims at continuing the very successful collaboration between HRS and SHARE in harmonizing fieldwork procedures at the data collection stage. Due to the multi-country and multi-language nature of SHARE, the SHARE data are collected by different survey agencies in each country. These survey agencies have different backgrounds, skill levels and often idiosyncratic procedures, jeopardizing the comparability of the collected data in terms of response rates and actual answers, in particular to qualitative questions. In the first two waves, SHARE has therefore applied a central training approach, plus thorough fieldwork monitoring, the former subcontracted to the Survey Research Center (SRC) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor which also runs the HRS training. We propose to continue and intensify this approach in the third wave, in order to achieve harmonization not only among the European SHARE member countries, but also between HRS and SHARE. Specifically, this application would finance the SRC's train-the-trainer program for the 2008/09 wave and certification of adherence to the trained methods through SRC. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Health outcomes vary a great deal across countries, between the US and Europe, but also within the European Union. This project will harmonize data on health policies and health outcomes in Europe with similar data in the US in order to better understand how past international health policy differences have shaped current health outcomes.