Flemish participation to the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). (SHARE)

Ageing is a key societal challenge. The goal of the ESFRI project SHARE is to build a distributed infrastructure to collect a data set that offers researchers and policy makers a state-of-the-art instrument to study in a detailed and multidisciplinary way the topic of ageing, and the challenges it poses. The SHARE data set is a unique ex-ante harmonized data set of cross-national, comparable microlevel panel data on physical and cognitive health, living conditions, socioeconomic status, and social networks of 140,000 European individuals aged 50 and over, covering 28 countries. The data set has become a pivotal source for academic research on ageing in Europe in many disciplines, such as economics, health studies, sociology, and demography. Moreover, the SHARE data set allows to address highly policy-relevant questions about ageing, and offers unique information with regard to pressing concerns such as early labor market exit, active ageing, and long-term care.

Keywords:RETIREMENT, HEALTH, AGEING

Disciplines:Elderly care, Health, education and welfare economics, Distribution, Family and household studies, Social gerontology and sociology of ageing