Workshop : The Role of Biomarkers in Population-Based Social Surveys on Aging
The Swiss country team of SHARE at IMES and FORS is organizing a workshop about the role of...
SHARE Wave 4 Book Launch
The official data and book publication will be celebrated June 27, 2013 (10:00-17:00) at the...
SHARE Wave 4 Data - Release Update 1.1.1
The SHARE Wave 4 data release 1.1.1 is now available for download.
Overview
The ratio of older people to total population is higher in Europe than on any other continent - and the phenomenon of population aging will continue well into this century. The Survey of Health, Ageing an Retirement in Europe (SHARE), whose first wave of data was collected in 2004, is the first study to examine the different ways in which people aged 50 and older live in twenty European countries from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and in Israel.
For a summary overview of SHARE, you can download the SHARE brochure.
Countries participating in SHARE

Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Wave 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Austria | X | X | X | X |
Belgium | X | X | X | X |
Switzerland | X | X | X | X |
Germany | X | X | X | X |
Denmark | X | X | X | X |
Spain | X | X | X | X |
France | X | X | X | X |
Greece | X | X | X | |
Italy | X | X | X | X |
Netherlands | X | X | X | X |
Sweden | X | X | X | X |
Israel | X | X | ||
Czech Republic | X | X | X | |
Ireland | X | X | ||
Poland | X | X | X | |
Estonia | X | |||
Hungary | X | |||
Portugal | X | |||
Slovenia | X |
