Creating an HRS-Adapted Simplified SHARE Distribution File

其他项目信息-项目概要/摘要 SHARE，欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查，是仿照美国健康和 退休研究（HRS）。SHARE还与英国老龄化纵向研究紧密协调 （艾尔莎）和日本老龄化和退休研究（JSTAR）。与HRS、艾尔莎和JSTAR相反， SHARE是一项多国研究，目前涉及20个国家，有27种语言版本。份额 在2004年、2006年和2008年收集了三波数据，目前正在进行第四波。2008年第三波 偏离了严格的小组设计，并收集了回顾性的生活史。 众多的国家及其机构的多样性和语言，加上一个大的跨学科 一组变量存储在大约25个模块每波，并分化成个人，夫妇和 家庭级数据使SHARE成为一个非常复杂的数据集。这种复杂性似乎减少了 分享在非欧洲国家，特别是美国，并限制了其作为跨 进行国家比较，以便更好地了解老年人的健康结果与 经济、医疗和社会政策环境。 该项目的目的是为研究人员创建一个简化的和适应人力资源系统的数据集， 在复杂面板数据的定量分析以及学生培训和教学方面经验丰富。这 数据集将包括与SHARE主要分布相同数量的受访者和代理报告，但 将被限制在一个变量的子集上。这将允许将数据库存储为单个文件，而无需 用于跨个人、夫妇和家庭级别的数据库模块的复杂合并。另外我们 将增加产生的变量，如指数和重新编码的健康，人口，社会和经济 这些措施允许直接分析，而无需延长数据准备时间。所有变量都将被标记， 使用适用于美国语言和美国机构的通用描述符记录 环境，并简要介绍了与HRS的比较。简化的、适应人力资源系统的SHARE 数据集将以各种统计软件包的形式免费提供。

OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION - Project Summary/Abstract SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is modeled after the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS). SHARE is also tightly harmonized with the English Longitudinal Study on Aging (ELSA) and the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR). As opposed to HRS, ELSA and JSTAR, SHARE is a multi-country study which currently involves 20 countries with 27 language versions. SHARE has collected three waves of data in 2004, 2006 and 2008 and is currently in its 4th wave. The third wave in 2008 deviated from the strict panel design and collected retrospective life histories. The multitude of countries with their institutional variety and languages, combined with a large interdisciplinary set of variables stored in about 25 modules per wave, and the differentiation into individual-, couple- and household-level data, make SHARE a very complex data set. This complexity appears to reduce the usage of SHARE in non-European countries, in particular the US, and limits its potential as a widespread tool for cross- national comparisons in order to better understand how health outcomes in older ages are related to the economic, healthcare and social policy environment. The aim of this project is to create a simplified and HRS-adapted dataset for researchers who are less experienced in the quantitative analyses of complex panel data and for student training and teaching. This dataset will include the same number of respondents and proxy reports as the main distribution of SHARE but will be restricted to a subset of variables. This will allow storing the database as a single file without the need for complex merges of database modules across the individual-, couple- and household-levels. In addition, we will add generated variables, such as indexes and recoded health, demographic, social and economic measures, which allow for direct analyses without extended data preparations. All variables will be labeled and documented using common descriptors adapted to the American language and the US institutional environment, with a synopsis targeted to comparisons with HRS. The simplified and HRS-adapted SHARE data set will be made available free of charge in the format of various statistical packages.