ALSA Harmonised Study
The original databases are from the ALSA study ( https://sites.flinders.edu.au/alsa/ ). More information on the study design and methodology can be found on their website.
Acknowledgements:
We wish to thank the participants in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing, who have given their time over many years, and without whom the present study would not have been possible. The ALSA was supported by grants from the South Australian Health Commission, the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund, the US National Institute on Aging (Grant No. AG 08523–02), the Office for the Ageing (SA), Elderly Citizens Homes (SA), The National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC 229922), the Premiers Science Research Fund (SA) and the Australian Research Council (DP0879152; DP130100428). The authors gratefully acknowledge the work of the project team at the Flinders Centre for Ageing Studies, Flinders University who carried out the ALSA and provided data for this paper
References:
- Luszcz, M A.; Windsor, T D.; Edwards, P.; Scott, J E T., 2020, "Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Waves 1-13 (1992-2014)", doi:10.26193/J01NCT, ADA Dataverse, V1
Harmonization Study Design
A harmonised dataset can be created for each wave and population according to the ATHLOS DataSchema and the harmonisation codes located on Github:
DataSchema: https://athlos.pssjd.org/ws/file-dl/network/athlos/DataSchema_ATHLOS.xlsx
Harmonisation codes: https://github.com/athlosproject/athlos-project.github.io/tree/master/ALSA
Please contact us if anyone is interested in using the harmonised data from the ALSA study via the ATHLOS DataSchema.
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