Welcome to ELSA

Description: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) COVID-19 Substudy is a panel survey of people aged 52 and older and their partners, living in private households in England. Its sample was drawn from a nationally representative cohort, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Its main goal is to provide insight into the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on health, access to health and social care, financial circumstances, mental wellbeing, and social activity in older adults in England. The survey elicits information about demographics, COVID-19 testing and symptoms, health, healthcare utilization, employment, food and job security, volunteering, informal care, social networks and isolation, retirement and pension, income, and spending.
Cohort profile: https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:235344074
Age Eligibility | Age 52 and older |
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People Interviewed per Household | Age-eligible individuals and their spouse of any age who participated in a previous wave of ELSA |
Representativeness | Nationally representative |
The ELSA COVID-19 Substudy interviews were carried out between June and July 2020 and between November and December 2020. The ELSA COVID-19 Substudy used a sequential mixed-mode strategy, where participants were first invited to take part in the study online using computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI). After participants were offered enough time and opportunities to complete the interview online, they were then invited to complete the survey by phone using computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). At Waves 1 and 2, about 83% of respondents completed the interview online and about 17% completed the interview by phone.

The ELSA COVID-19 Substudy Wave 1 sample included 4,774 households containing 7,040 individuals and their spouses.

Mortality | Office for National Statistics |
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Healthcare Utilization | Hospital Episode Statistics |
Cancer | Public Health England |
Pension | National Insurance Records |
Benefits | Department of Work and Pensions |
ELSA core interview ELSA end-of-life interview ELSA life-history interview ELSA self-completion survey ELSA health assessment ELSA-HCAP | UK Data Service |
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GWAS Data | European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) |
Polygenic Score Data | ELSA team o.ajnakina@ucl.ac.uk |
Linked Economic Data | ELSA Linked Data Access Committee (ELDAC) elsadata@natcen.ac.uk |
Harmonized ELSA COVID | A dataset of research-ready variables derived from the ELSA COVID-19 Substudy interviews of Waves 1-2. | Coming soon |
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