Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
SHARE is a multi-national panel survey collecting data on health, socioeconomics status, and social and family networks across the European Union and Israel. Commencing in 2004, the study targets recruitment towards participants aged 50 years and over who have their regular domicile in the respective SHARE country, although current partners living in the same household are also interviewed regardless of their age. All SHARE respondents interviewed in any previous wave are part of the longitudinal sample, and are traced and re-interviewed if moving within the country. The first wave collected data from over 28,000 participants across Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Later waves also collected data from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, with data now collected for around 160,000 participants.
Study design
Household panel, Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
28,296 (participants)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2004
Primary Institutions
Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik)
Links
Profile paper DOI
Funders
European Commission
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) now known as Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt, BMFTR)
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Interview – phone
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- None
- None
- Census data
- Education data
- Employer data
- Healthcare data
- Other government data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
