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Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe

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  • Morten Wahrendorf

    (Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf)

  • Christian Deindl

    (TU Dortmund University)

  • Jinkook Lee

    (University of Southern California
    University of Southern California)

  • Drystan Phillips

    (University of Southern California)

Abstract

Research from a range of disciplines highlights the need to adopt a life course perspective that considers earlier life courses to explain outcomes in later life (e.g. later life health, cognitive ageing or retirement behaviour). This includes a more comprehensive assessment of earlier life courses over time and of how they are shaped by societal and political contexts. But quantitative data with detailed information on life courses that allow to address these questions are rare. Or, in case the data are available, the data are rather difficult to handle and appears to be underused. This contribution introduces the harmonized life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform from two European Surveys, SHARE and ELSA, with data from 30 European countries. Besides providing some details on the collection of life history data in the two surveys, we also describe the way how raw data were rearranged in a user-friendly state sequence format and additionally give some examples based on the resulting data. This illustrates the potential of collected life history data from SHARE and ELSA, clearly going beyond the description of single aspects of the life course. By providing harmonized data of two prominent studies on ageing in Europe in a user-friendly format, the gateway to global ageing data platform provides a unique data source that is easily accessible for research, and permits to study life course and their links to later life in a cross-national perspective.

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  • Morten Wahrendorf & Christian Deindl & Jinkook Lee & Drystan Phillips, 2023. "Life history data from the gateway to global ageing data platform: resources for studying life courses across Europe," European Journal of Ageing, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 1-8, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eujoag:v:20:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1007_s10433-023-00773-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10433-023-00773-y
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