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 about 140,000 individuals (approximately 380,000 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	Wave 7
Release Guides	SHARE Release Guide 7.1.1 (PDF)
Questionnaires	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Cross-Wave Comparison	X
Methodology	X	Chapter 8 of W2 FRB	X	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

A short Release Guide for the early beta release of the SHARE COVID-19 data set is available here.

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