The 1915 Danish Birth Cohort
The Danish Birth Cohort Studies include 4 birth cohorts of participants born in 1895, 1905, 1910, and 1915. The 1915 Danish Birth Cohort included over 1,500 individuals. Participants were aged between 94 and 95 years during the first survey in 2010. Throughout the cohort, 25% were males, and 21% were proxy interviewees. Males had a higher participation rate compared with females, and non-participants had a higher 6-month mortality than participants. The study used both face-to-face and proxy interviews for data collection and in 2015, a follow-up study included all surviving birth cohort members.
Study design
Cohort, Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
1,584 (participants)
Age at first data collection
94 - 95 (participants)
Participant year of birth
1915 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2010
Primary Institutions
University of Southern Denmark (Syddansk Universitet, SDU)
Links
No website available
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Danish Aging Research Center
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Agnes and Knut Mørk Foundation
Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (DASTI)
Danish Council for Independent Research (now known as Independent Research Fund Denmark, Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- None
- None
- Medical birth registry
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
