Individual Study / SHARE

The interviewers used computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) to collect most of the data. In addition, self-administered questionnaires were handed out after completion of the CAPI. Covering the key areas of life, namely health, socioeconomics and social networks, the assessment included a great variety of information: health variables, physical measures, psychological variables, economic variables and social support variables as well as social network information.

The interviewers used computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) to collect most of the data. In addition, self-administered questionnaires were handed out after completion of the CAPI. Covering the key areas of life, namely health, socioeconomics and social networks, the assessment included a great variety of information: health variables, physical measures, psychological variables, economic variables and social support variables as well as social network information. If a respondent died, end-of-life interviews were conducted face-to-face or by telephone by a proxy, collecting the respondent’s last year of life.

Retrospective survey to collect information about the respondent’s life histories. A Life History Calendar was used to collect retrospective data about childhood living circumstances, partners, children, accommodation, employment, socioeconomic and health conditions were collected with the help of a Life History Calendar.

Most of the data was collected using the computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) system . In addition, self-administered questionnaires were handed out after completion of the CAPI in some countries. Covering the key areas of life, namely health, socioeconomics and social networks, the assessment included a great variety of information: health variables, physical measures, psychological variables, economic variables and social support variables as well as social network information. If a respondent died, end-of-life interviews were conducted face-to-face or by telephone by a proxy, collecting the respondent’s last year of life.

Most of the data was collected using the computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) system . In addition, self-administered questionnaires were handed out after completion of the CAPI in some countries. Covering the key areas of life, namely health, socioeconomics and social networks, the assessment included a great variety of information: health variables, physical measures, psychological variables, economic variables and social support variables as well as social network information. If a respondent died, end-of-life interviews were conducted face-to-face or by telephone by a proxy, collecting the respondent’s last year of life.

Most of the data was collected using the computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) system. In addition, self-administered questionnaires were handed out after completion of the CAPI in some countries. Covering the key areas of life, namely health, socioeconomics and social networks, the assessment included a great variety of information: health variables, physical measures, psychological variables, economic variables and social support variables as well as social network information. The major innovations of Wave 6 are biosample measures that will be available through the collection of dried blood spots in 12 of the participating countries and new ISCO-harmonized job titles, which will be available for refined analyses including occupations, as well as cross-nationally harmonized, longitudinal social networks that will allow for completely new analyses regarding the role change of social networks in all outcomes relevant for questions on ageing.