Creating an HRS-Adapted Simplified SHARE Distribution File

描述（由申请人提供）：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（艾尔莎）和日本老龄化和退休研究（JSTAR）紧密协调。与HRS、艾尔莎和JSTAR不同，SHARE是一项多国研究，目前涉及20个国家，有27种语言版本。SHARE在2004年、2006年和2008年收集了三波数据，目前正在收集第四波数据。2008年的第三次浪潮偏离了严格的面板设计，收集了回顾性的生活史。由于国家众多，机构多样，语言多样，加上每波大约有25个单元储存了大量跨学科的变量，再加上分为个人、夫妇和家庭一级的数据，SHARE成为一个非常复杂的数据集。这种复杂性似乎减少了SHARE在非欧洲国家（特别是美国）的使用，并限制了其作为跨国比较的广泛工具的潜力，以便更好地了解老年人的健康结果与经济，医疗保健和社会政策环境的关系。该项目的目的是为那些在复杂面板数据的定量分析方面经验较少的研究人员以及学生培训和教学创建一个简化的和适应HRS的数据集。该数据集将包括与SHARE主要分布相同数量的受访者和代理报告，但将限于变量的子集。这将允许将数据库存储为单个文件，而不需要跨个人，夫妇和家庭级别的数据库模块的复杂合并。此外，我们将增加生成的变量，如指数和重新编码的健康、人口、社会和经济措施，从而可以直接进行分析，而无需延长数据准备时间。所有变量都将使用适用于美国语言和美国机构环境的通用描述符进行标记和记录，并提供一份旨在与HRS进行比较的概要。将以各种统计软件包的形式免费提供简化的、经人力资源统计调整的SHARE数据集。 公共卫生相关性：该项目的长期实质性目标是推广跨国比较工具，以便更好地了解老年人的健康结果如何与经济、保健和社会政策环境相关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The long-run substantive aim of this project is to popularize the tool of cross-national comparisons in order to better understand how health outcomes in older ages are related to the economic, healthcare and social policy environment.