The Gateway to Global Aging Data
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The Gateway to Global Aging Data (g2aging.org) is a data and information platform developed to facilitate longitudinal and cross-country analyses on aging, especially those using the family of Health and Retirement Studies (HRS) around the world. To further this effort, the Gateway provides searchable metadata, extensive cross-survey documentation, downloadable harmonized microdata with variables standardized across surveys, and graphs and tables that enable users to instantly compare variables of interest over time, across countries, and against macro-level contextual information at no cost.
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General Information
- Year created
- 2013
- Types of cohorts
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- Population cohort
- Countries
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- United States of America
- Mexico
- Israel
- Costa Rica
- South Korea
- Japan
- China
- India
- United Kingdom
- Austria
- Belgium
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Ireland
- Indonesia
- Ghana
- Russian
- South Africa
- Brazil
- Thailand
- Malaysia
- Region
- America, Asia, Europe
- Setting
- International
- Funding
- This project has received funding from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (R01 AG030153, RC2 AG036619, R03 AG043052, R24 AG048024)
- Criteria of cohort's to be included
- Cohort studies about aging and health, most of them harmonized ex-ante with the family of international Health and Retirement studies.
- Socio-environmental context
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- Air pollution
- Other : pension policies, macroeconomic environment
Participants
Number of participants
- Total
- 351,000
- With harmonized data
- 351,000
Age range of the samples
- Minimum age
- 45
Methodology for harmonization and integration
- Strategy of harmonization
- Ex-post
- Data processing methods
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- Standardisation
- Multiple imputation
- Others
- Type of infrastructure
- Some centrally, other locally
- Integrative data analysis
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- Pooled analyses
- Software
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- Stata
- Supplementary information
- The strategy of harmonisation is ex-post in most studies, even though newer studies like LASI is ex-ante. Countries which have metadata only: Indonesia; Ghana; Russian Federation; South Africa; Scotland; Northern Ireland; Brazil; Thailand; Malaysia.
Number of cohorts
- Total
- 18
- With harmonized data
- 10
- Will more cohorts be harmonized?
- Number of harmonized variables (max.)
- 37,000
Access
- Availability of metadata
- Availability of individual data
- Under request
Individual Studies
| Acronym | Name | Study design | Participants | Countries |
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| CHARLS | The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study | Population cohort | 17,708 | China |
| CRELES | Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study | Population cohort | 2,827 | |
| ELSA | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing | Population cohort | 12,099 | United Kingdom |
| ESLI-Brasil | The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging or Estudo Longitudinal da Saúde e Bem-Estar dos Idosos Brasileiros | Population cohort | 9,412 | |
| HAALSI | The Health and Aging Study in Africa | Population cohort | 5,059 | |
| HAGIS | Healthy Ageing in Scotland | Population cohort | 1,000 | |
| HRS | Health and Retirement Survey | Population cohort | 37,317 | United States of America |
| IFLS | Indonesia Family Life Survey | Population cohort | 30,000 | |
| JSTAR | Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement | Population cohort | 7,268 | Japan |
| KLOSA | The Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing | Population cohort | 10,254 | South Korea |
| LASI | The Longitudinal Aging Study in India | Population cohort | 1,683 | India |
| MHAS | The Mexican Health and Aging Study | Population cohort | 15,146 | Mexico |
| NICOLA | Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing | Population cohort | 8,500 | |
| SAGE | WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health | Population cohort | 63,437 | South Africa , Ghana , China , India , Russian , Mexico |
| SHARE | The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe | Population cohort | 30,811 | Austria , Belgium , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , France , Greece , Hungary , Ireland , Israel , Italy , Netherlands , Poland , Sweden , Switzerland , Germany , Luxembourg , Croatia |
| TILDA | The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing | Population cohort | 8,500 |