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dc.contributor.authorKeenan, Katherine
dc.contributor.authorFoverskov, Else
dc.contributor.authorGrundy, Emily
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-31T23:41:12Z
dc.date.available2019-07-31T23:41:12Z
dc.date.issued2016-08-01
dc.identifier250544707
dc.identifiera3385c27-4372-48da-ad37-f41ba21f53f0
dc.identifier85008219635
dc.identifier.citationKeenan , K , Foverskov , E & Grundy , E 2016 , ' Data sources on the older population in Europe: Comparison of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) ' , Population: English Edition , vol. 71 , no. 3 , pp. 511-537 . https://doi.org/10.3917/pope.1603.0511en
dc.identifier.issn1634-2941
dc.identifier.otherRIS: 8
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9670-1607/work/35292658
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/18220
dc.descriptionISBN: 9782733210680. This research was funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant (FAMHEALTH) awarded to Professor Emily Grundy, under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ ERC, reference number 324055. GGS data were obtained from the Generations and Gender Programme Data Archive and were created by the organizations and individuals listed under each respective country name at http://www.ggp-i.org/online-data-analysis.html. This paper uses data from SHARE Wave 4 release 1.1.1, as of March 28th 2013 (DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w4.111) and SHARE Waves 1 and 2 release 2.6.0, as of November 29th 2013 (DOI: 10.6103/SHARE.w1.260 and 10.6103/SHARE.w2.260). The SHARE data collection has been primarily funded by the European Commission through the 5th Framework Programme (project QLK6-CT-2001-00360 in the thematic programme Quality of Life), through the 6th Framework Programme (projects SHARE-I3, RII-CT-2006-062193, COMPARE, CIT5- CT-2005-028857, and SHARELIFE, CIT4-CT-2006-028812) and through the 7th Framework Programme (SHARE-PREP, N° 211909, SHARE-LEAP, N° 227822 and SHARE M4, N° 261982). Additional funding from the U.S. National Institute on Aging (U01 AG09740-13S2, P01 AG005842, P01 AG08291, P30 AG12815, R21 AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG BSR06-11 and OGHA 04-064) and the German Ministry of Education and Research as well as from various national sources is gratefully acknowledged (see www.share-project.org for a full list of funding institutions).en
dc.description.abstracthe Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) are two widely used European longitudinal surveys with data on socio-demographic and health topics, but their comparability has not been systematically investigated. We compared SHARE and GGS data for 50-80 year olds in seven European countries (Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Poland) to assess data quality and the potential for joint analyses. The results showed that information on age, gender, marriage and fertility patterns and the corresponding distributions were broadly similar in both sources. For some countries, distributions by educational level varied between the two sources even though both reported using the same International Standard Classification of Education, which may reflect variations in the timings of surveys. The differences also observed for estimates of the prevalence of poor health might come from the wording of health questions and their placement in the questionnaire that sometimes differed between the surveys. We investigated what effect these variations might have on analyses of health inequalities by undertaking multivariable analysis of associations between education and marital status and two standard health indicators: self-reported health (SHR) and long-standing illness (LSI).
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPopulation: English Editionen
dc.subjectGenerations and Gender Survey (GGS)en
dc.subjectSurvey of Healthen
dc.subjectAgeing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)en
dc.subjectData qualityen
dc.subjectSurveysen
dc.subjectHealthen
dc.subjectAgeingen
dc.subjectComparisonen
dc.subjectEuropeen
dc.subjectR Medicine (General)en
dc.subjectH Social Sciences (General)en
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subject.lccR1en
dc.subject.lccH1en
dc.titleData sources on the older population in Europe: Comparison of the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doi10.3917/pope.1603.0511
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-08-01
dc.identifier.urlhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/644132en


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