Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe: Integrating Activities to Access the Time Dimension and to Enlarge the Cross-national Dimension

Objective

We propose to strengthen and extend the access to the "Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe" (SHARE), funded under the 5th framework programme. The existing informational infrastructure of SHARE carries data on health, work and economic status, and family and social networks in 11 countries in the autumn of 2004. At this single point of time, the existing SHARE data sheds light on national differences and its implications on healthy and active ageing. Without adding the time dimension, though, the process of ageing cannot be observed and reactions to the ongoing changes in the institutional environment cannot be traced.

This proposed project will therefore give the existing SHARE infrastructure a longitudinal dimension by collecting a second wave of data and by linking these two waves to understand changes over time. A second extension concerns the countries covered. The current 11 countries cover Continental West European countries from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, but do not include Great Britain and the Central European accession countries. This proposed project will provide access to the data collected in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) by merging the overlapping informational contents, and it will collect new SHARE data in two accession countries.

The resulting database will integrate two existing databases (SHARE 2004 and ELSA 2004) with two databases to be collected (SHARE 2006 and ELSA 2006); it will enable an integration of cross-national and longitudinal methods of analysis; and it will permit free and user-friendly access through a host of access activities. The project will create a key infrastructure that will enable researchers from a broad set of disciplines to analyse the Europe-wide ageing process; to better understand adaptive behaviour in response to population ageing and its induced policy changes; and to develop cross-nationally comparable indicators for key concepts relevant to EU policy.

Fields of science

• medical and health sciences › health sciences › health care services
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › databases

Programme(s)

• FP6-INFRASTRUCTURES - Research infrastructures: Specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration: "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006

Topic(s)

• INFRASTR-2.1 - Integrating activities combining cooperation networks with transnational access and research projects

Call for proposal

FP6-2004-INFRASTRUCTURES-5
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Funding Scheme

IA-I3 - Integrating activities implemented as Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives

Coordinator

MANNHEIM UNIVERSITY

Address

Schloss
Mannheim
Germany

Participants (19)

CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS MONETARIOS Y FINANCIEROS

Spain

Address

Casado Del Alisal 5
Madrid

ECONOMICS INSTITUTE, ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Czechia

Address

Politickych Veznu 7
882 Prague 1

ENVIRONNEMENT, SANTE ET SOCIETE

France

Address

Avenue Emile Boissier 9
Nantes

ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM

Netherlands

Address

Dr. Molewaterplein 50, 3015 Ge Rotterdam
Rotterdam

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE

Italy

Address

Via Dei Roccettini 7, Badia Fiesolana
San Domenico Di Fiesole (Firenze)

HEINRICH-HEINE-UNIVERSITAET DUESSELDORF

Germany

Address

Universitaetsstrasse 1
Duesseldorf

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES ET DE DOCUMENTATION EN ECONOMIE DE LA SANTÉ, PARIS

France

Address

10 Rue Vauvenargues
Paris

JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITAET LINZ

Austria

Address

Altenbergerstrasse 69
Linz

KINGS COLLEGE LONDON

United Kingdom

Address

Strand
London

LUNDS UNIVERSITET

Sweden

Address

Paradisgatan 5C
Lund

PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES

Greece

Address

136 Sigrou Avenue
Athens

STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT BRABANT - UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG

Netherlands

Address

Warandelaan 2
Tilburg

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI DI VENEZIA

Italy

Address

San Giobbe, 873
Venezia

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA

Italy

Address

Via Viii Febbraio 2
Padova

UNIVERSITE DE LAUSANNE

Switzerland

Address

Unicentre
Lausanne

UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE

Belgium

Address

Place Du 20 Aout 7
Liege

UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN

Belgium

Address

Prinsstraat 13
Antwerpen

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK

Denmark

Address

Campusvej, 55
Odense

UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI

Poland

Address

Ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28
Warszawa