SHARE Harmonisation Study
Acknowledgements:
The original data that was harmonised in ATHLOS comes from SHARE Waves 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (DOIs: 10.6103/SHARE.w1.260, 10.6103/SHARE.w2.260, 10.6103/SHARE.w3.100, 10.6103/SHARE.w4.111, 10.6103/SHARE.w5.100), see Börsch-Supan et al. (2013) for methodological details.
The SHARE data collection has been funded by the European Commission, DG RTD through FP5 (QLK6-CT-2001-00360), FP6 (SHARE-I3: RII-CT-2006-062193, COMPARE: CIT5-CT-2005-028857, SHARELIFE: CIT4-CT-2006-028812) and FP7 (SHARE-PREP: N211909, SHARE-LEAP: N227822, SHARE M4: N261982). Additional funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the U.S. National Institute on Aging (U01_AG09740-13S2, P01_AG005842, P01_AG08291, P30_AG12815, R21_AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG_BSR06-11, OGHA_04-064, HHSN271201300071C), and from various national funding sources is gratefully acknowledged (see http://www.share-project.org).
References:
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Börsch-Supan, A. (2013). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 1. Release version: 2.6.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w1.260
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Börsch-Supan, A. (2013). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 2. Release version: 2.6.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w2.260
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Börsch-Supan, A. (2010). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 3 – SHARELIFE. Release version: 1.0.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w3.100
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Börsch-Supan, A. (2013). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 4. Release version: 1.1.1. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w4.111
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Börsch-Supan, A. (2015). Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Wave 5. Release version: 1.0.0. SHARE-ERIC. Data set. DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w5.100
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Börsch-Supan, A., A. Brugiavini, H. Jürges, J. Mackenbach, J. Siegrist and G. Weber. (2005). Health, ageing and retirement in Europe – First results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA).
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Börsch-Supan, A. and H. Jürges (Eds.). (2005). The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe – Methodology. Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA).
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Börsch-Supan, A., A. Brugiavini, H. Jürges, A. Kapteyn, J. Mackenbach, J. Siegrist and G. Weber. (2008). First results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2004-2007). Starting the longitudinal dimension. Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA)
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Börsch-Supan, A., Brandt, M., Hunkler, C., Kneip, T., Korbmacher, J., Malter, F., Schaan, B., Stuck, S., Zuber, S. (2013). Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). International Journal of Epidemiology DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt088.
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Börsch-Supan, A., M. Brandt, K. Hank and M. Schröder (Eds). (2011). The individual and the welfare state. Life histories in Europe. Heidelberg: Springer.
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Schröder, M. (2011). Retrospective data collection in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. SHARELIFE methodology. Mannheim: Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA).
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Börsch-Supan A., M. Brandt , H. Litwin and G. Weber (Eds). (2013). Active ageing and solidarity between generations in Europe: First results from SHARE after the economic crisis. Berlin: De Gruyter.
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Malter, F., Börsch-Supan, A.(Eds.) (2013). SHARE Wave 4: Innovations & Methodology. Munich: MEA, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
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Börsch-Supan, A., T. Kneip, H. Litwin, M. Myck, G. Weber (Eds.) (2015). Ageing in Europe - Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society. Berlin: De Gruyter.
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Malter, F. and A. Börsch-Supan (Eds.) (2015). SHARE Wave 5: Innovations & Methodology. Munich: MEA, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
Guidelines for proper citation and acknowledgement of original data: http://www.share-project.org/data-access/share-conditions-of-use.html
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/SHARE
Anyone interested in using the harmonised data from the SHARE study via the ATHLOS DataSchema should register on the website http://www.share-project.org/, download the necessary data and use the harmonisation codes. For more detailed help on this process, please contact us.
Users of SHARE data are obliged to provide references to all forms of publications (including working papers, theses, etc.) based on SHARE data to the central SHARE Coordination Team (info(at)share-project.org).
SHARE population
Participants aged 50 and over from 20 European countries plus Israel. Current partners living in the household were interviewed regardless of their age.
The Share population has been refreshed at waves 2, 4, and 5.
In wave 2 a refresher sample was drawn in all first wave countries except Austria and the Flemish part of Belgium, while the Czech Republic, Ireland, and Poland participated for the first time. Cohorts born in 1955 and 1956 were oversampled in some countries to keep the sample representative of the population 50 years old and older.
The target population for the refreshment samples of wave 4 (Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, and the Netherlands; plus baseline samples in Estonia, Hungary, Portugal, and Slovenia) consists of all persons born 1960 or earlier having their regular domicile in the respective country, together with their current partners/spouses, independently of age.
The target population for the refreshment samples of wave 5 (Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Slovenia; plus baseline samples in Girona and Luxembourg) consists of all persons born 1962 or earlier, but otherwise remained the same.
The countries participating in each wave are as follows:
- W1: Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Greece and Israel.
- W2: Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Greece, Israel, Czech Republic, Poland, and Ireland
- W3-SHARELIFE: Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic and Poland,
- W4: Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, Slovenia and Portugal
- W5: Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain (including Girona), Italy, Israel, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia and Luxembourg