Resources on Aging

Centers on the Demography of Aging

The following (P-30) Centers on the Demography of Aging were established with funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The University of Michigan maintains a Centers Metapage.

Duke: Center for Population Health and Aging
Harvard: Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA)
National Bureau of Economic Research: NBER Center for Aging and Health Research
Stanford: Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging (CDEHA)
University of California at Berkeley: Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA)
University of California, Los Angeles/University of Southern California: Center on Biodemography and Population Health (CBPH)
University of Michigan: Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging
University of Wisconsin: Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA)
U-Penn: Population Aging Research Center (PARC)
University of Washington: Center for Health Trends and Forecasts (CHTF)

Aging-Related Data Sources

ALP: American Life Panel
CCRDC: California Census Research Data Center
ELSA: English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing
Health ABC Study

HRS/AHEAD: Health and Retirement Study/Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan)
ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (University of Michigan)
IFLS: Indonesian Family Life Survey
JSTAR: Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement
LASI: Longitudinal Aging Study in India
LSOA: Longitudinal Study of Aging
MHAS: Mexican Health and Aging Study
MIDUS: Midlife in the United States
NACDA: National Archive on Computerized Data on Aging
National Vital Statistics System
NHANES: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
NHATS: National Health & Aging Trends Study
NHCS: National Health Care Survey
NHIS: National Health Interview Survey
NHIS-D: National Health Interview Survey on Disability
NLTCS: National Long Term Care Survey
NPHA: National Poll on Healthy Aging
NSHAP: National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
PSID: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan)
SAGE: Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health
SHARE: Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe
TILDA: The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
U.S. Bureau of the Census
U.S. Mortality Estimates and Projections, University of California at Berkeley
WHAS: Women’s Health & Aging Study
Women's Health Initiative
WLS: Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

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