Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Overview
- Acronym
- SHARE
- Website
- SHARE
- Investigators
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- Contacts
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General Design
- Study design
- Cohort
- Start - End Year
- 2004 -
- General Information on Follow Up (profile, frequency)
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Information is collected every 2 years. Most participating countries managed to stick to the schedule.
- Recruitment Target
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- Individuals
- Number of Participants
- No Limit
- Number of Participants with Biological Samples
- No Limit
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
| Possible Access to Data | |
| Possible Access to Biosamples | |
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Access to the SHARE data is provided free of charge to all scientists globally. For details on how to register as a SHARE user, please visit http://www.share-project.org/data-access-documentation/research-data-center-data-access.html.
Marker Paper
Börsch-Supan A, Brandt M, Hunkler C, Kneip T, Korbmacher J, Malter F, Schaan B, Stuck S, Zuber S; SHARE Central Coordination Team. Data Resource Profile: the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). International Journal of Epidemiology, 2013; 42(4): 992-1001.
PUBMED 23778574Timeline
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, 5 and 6. 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 target population for the refreshment samples of wave 6 (Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, and Slovenia; plus a baseline sample in Croatia) consists of all persons born 1964 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
- 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
- W6: Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain (including Girona), Italy, Israel, Greece, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Portugal, Luxembourg, and Croatia
Selection Criteria
- Minimum age
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50
- Countries
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- Austria
- Belgium
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Germany
- Luxembourg
- Croatia
- Other Criteria
- A person is excluded if she or he is incarcerated, hospitalized or out of the country during the entire survey period, unable to speak the country’s language(s) or has moved to an unknown address.
Sources of Recruitment
- General Population
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- Selected sample
- Supplementary Information
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SHARE is a multinational survey, which involves differences in sampling resources between countries. Most SHARE countries have access to population registers.
Sample Size
- Number of Participants
- No Limit
- Supplementary Information about selection criteria
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Wave 1: 31 115 participants
Wave 2: 34 415 participants
Wave 3: 26 836 participants
Wave 4 : 58 489 participants
Wave 5 :
Data Collection Events
| # | Name | Data sources | Data sources - Biosamples | Start | End |
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| 0 | SHARE - Wave 1 |
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2004 | 2004 | |
| 1 | SHARE - Wave 2 |
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2006 | 2006 | |
| 2 | SHARE - Wave 3 (SHARELIFE) |
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2008 | 2008 | |
| 3 | SHARE - Wave 4 |
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2010 | 2010 | |
| 4 | SHARE - Wave 5 |
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2013 | 2013 | |
| 5 | SHARE - Wave 6 |
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2015 | 2015 |
Areas of Information Collected
- Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
- Death
- Lifestyle and behaviours
- Physical measures and assessments
- Birth, pregnancy and reproductive health history
- Laboratory measures
- Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
- Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
- Diseases
- Life events, life plans, beliefs and values
- Symptoms and signs
- Preschool, school and work life
- Medication and supplements
- Social environment and relationships
- Non-pharmacological interventions
- Physical environment
- Health and community care services utilization
- Administrative information