Covid19

Welcome to SHARE

Description: The Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) COVID-19 survey is a cross-national panel survey of people aged 50 and older and their partners in 27 countries of Europe and Israel. Its sample was drawn from a cross-national cohort, the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe. Its main goal is to understand the unintended consequences of the epidemic control decisions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and to devise improved health, economic, and social policies that will make European Union healthcare systems and societies more resilient to pandemics in terms of prevention, protection, and treatment of older adults. The survey elicits information about demographics, COVID-19 avoidance behavior, COVID-19 testing, economic effects of COVID-19, health, healthcare utilization, employment, social networks, and informal care.
Cohort Profile: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/7738

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The SHARE COVID-19 sample includes nationally representative samples of the population aged 50 and older in 27 countries of Europe and Israel. The initial sample was recruited in 2020 from individuals who participated in a previous wave of SHARE.

Age Eligibility	Age 50 and older
People Interviewed per Household	One age-eligible individual and their spouse of any age who participated in a previous wave of SHARE
Representativeness	Nationally representative of 27 counties in Europe and Israel

The SHARE COVID-19 interviews were carried out using computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). SHARE COVID-19 Wave 1 was fielded between May and September 2020 in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Wave 1.5 was fielded between September 2020 and January 2021 in Austria and Czech Republic.

The SHARE COVID-19 Wave 1 sample included 38,943 households containing 57,303 individuals and their spouses. The Wave 1 sample included individuals in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

SHARE COVID-19 data can be linked to SHARE. SHARE includes linkages to administrative data in a subset of countries. SHARE data from Germany can be linked to records of the German Pension Insurance. SHARE data from Denmark can be linked to health, labor market, and demographic registers. SHARE data from Netherlands can be linked to the Statistics Netherlands Microdata Catalogue, which contains data on a variety of topics such as health, labor, social security, income, and wealth.

Public access SHARE COVID-19 data are available by request from SHARE - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (SHARE-ERIC). Data are anonymized and available by request from SHARE-ERIC.

SHARE COVID-19 interview	SHARE-ERIC
SHARE core interview SHARE end-of-life interview SHARE life-history interview SHARE self-completion survey SHARE health assessment	SHARE-ERIC

The Gateway to Global Aging Data has created a user-friendly dataset based on SHARE COVID-19 data designed to allow researchers to conduct cross-round and cross-study analysis.

Harmonized SHARE COVID	A dataset of research-ready variables derived from the SHARE COVID-19 interviews of Waves 1-1.5.	Coming soon