...a Multi-Disciplinary Survey regarding Challenges and Chances of the Demographic Change in Europe
Author: Professor Axel Börsch-Supan, Ph. D./Location: Mannheim
The Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) comprises individual aging processes in Europe by means of detailed longitudinal data regarding the financial and sozio-economic situation, the marital status, and the state of health. The data is internationally harmonized and can be used in various areas. The basic data collection carried out between September 2004 and July 2005 was, two years later, followed by a tracking survey. The third wave of data acquisition started in November 2008 and surveyed retrospective life histories until the end of 2009. The forth wave will be designed as a classical tracking survey and start in late autumn of 2010. The current sample involves more than 35000 persons, aged 50 or older, in 15 European countries, from Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden) to the Mediterranean Sea (Spain, Italy, Greece), in Western Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Ireland) and Eastern Europe (Poland and Czech Republic), as well as Israel. In 2010, it will be extended to Estonia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia, and Hungary.
