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
Age Eligibility | Age 50 and older |
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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 interview | SHARE-ERIC |
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SHARE core interview SHARE end-of-life interview SHARE life-history interview SHARE self-completion survey SHARE health assessment | SHARE-ERIC |
Harmonized SHARE COVID | A dataset of research-ready variables derived from the SHARE COVID-19 interviews of Waves 1-1.5. | Coming soon |
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