Global Aging Data Repository: Resources & Tools for Aging Studies

The Global Aging Data Repository provides information and tools to facilitate cross-national studies of aging. The repository currently contains: (1) meta data from and searchable concordance information on all available waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA), the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), the Korean Longitudinal Study on Aging (KLoSA), the Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS), the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR), the Longitudinal Aging Survey in India (LASI), the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), the Irish Longitudinal Study of Aging (TILDA), and the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE); (2) survey flow charts, illustrating sequence of questions, including skip patterns and preloads; (3) harmonized variables on demographics, sample weights, identifiers, marital history, parent mortality, family structure, health, health behavior, financial and housing wealth, income, and employment history for HRS, ELSA, SHARE, and KLoSA; and (4) a wiki system for researcher comment and input.