SHARE Wave 8 (release 8.0.0). Multidisciplinary cross-country panel of adults 50+ in 28 European countries plus Israel, harmonised with HRS, ELSA, CHARLS.
Wave 8 / Release 8.0.0 · updated: 2022-02 · official pageSurvey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe — Wave 8 registers 12 variables — 4 commonly used as dependent variables, 3 as core regressors and 9 as controls. Common research directions for this dataset include: Wealth and self-rated health among older Europeans, Education gradient in late-life depression.
Wealth and self-rated health among older Europeans: DV sphus, IV hnetw, controls age, gender, isced1997_r.
Education gradient in late-life depression: DV eurod, IV isced1997_r, controls age, gender, mstat.
| name | label | type/role | data file | description · keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mergeid | Person Identifier SHARE Person ID (cross-wave) | identifier / identifier | demo | Stable person identifier across all SHARE waves and modules idperson |
| country | Country Country Code (numeric) | categorical / control | demo | Country of interview (ISO numeric) countrygeography |
| cciw_w8 | Calibrated Individual Weight W8 Calibrated Cross-sectional Individual Weight (Wave 8) | continuous / control | demo | Cross-sectional calibrated individual weight, country-level weight |
| age | Age Age at Interview (years) | continuous / control | demo | Age in years at interview age |
| gender | Gender Sex | binary / control | demo | Sex of respondent sexgender |
| isced1997_r | ISCED Education Education — ISCED 1997 (recoded) | ordinal / iv,control | demo | Highest education recoded to ISCED 1997 categories educationisced |
| mstat | Marital Status Marital Status | categorical / control | demo | Current marital status maritalmarriage |
| sphus | Self-rated Health (US scale) Self-rated Health (US scale, 5-pt) | ordinal / dv,control | ph | Self-rated general health on the US 5-point scale healthself-rated |
| eurod | EURO-D Depression EURO-D Depression Score (0-12) | continuous / dv,control | ph | EURO-D depression scale (0-12; higher = more symptoms) depressioneuro-dmental health |
| ep005_ | Current Job Situation Current Job Situation | categorical / control | ep | Current main activity / employment status employmentretiredlabor |
| thinc | Total Household Income Total Household Income (Imputed, EUR) | continuous / dv,iv | imp | Imputed annual household gross income (€) incomehousehold |
| hnetw | Net Household Wealth Net Household Wealth (Imputed, EUR) | continuous / dv,iv | imp | Imputed net household wealth (€) wealthnet worth |
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