Data Documentation

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of more than 120,000 individuals (approximately 297,000 interviews) from 27 European countries and Israel aged 50 or over.

On this page you will find an overview of SHARE data documentation.

	Wave 1	Wave 2	Wave 3 (SHARELIFE)	Wave 4	Wave 5	Wave 6
Release Guides	SHARE Release Guide 6.1.1 (PDF)		SHARELIFE Release Guide 6.1.1 (PDF)	SHARE Release Guide 6.1.1 (PDF)
Questionnaires	X	X	X	X	X	X
Deviations between countries	X	X
…and waves	Deviation between Waves 1, 2...			… 4 …	… 5 …	… and 6
Methodology	X	Chapter 8 of W2 FRB	X	X	X	X
Scales Manual	Scales and Multi-Item Indicators (PDF)
Data Resource Profile	Börsch-Supan A. et al. (2013): Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Int J of Epidemiology
Data & Documentation Tool	Web interface for browsing and searching the SHARE (meta)data

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On this page you will find an overview of SHARE data documentation.