Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
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SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) is coordinated at the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging. It is studying health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of Europeans 50 or over. For the first wave in 2004 11 countries contributed: Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Greece Data has also been collected in Israel. Some other countries have joined the second wave of SHARE in 2006: Czech Republic, Poland and Ireland. The second
In the first wave (2004) the SHARE project was funded by the European Commission (project QLK6-CT-2001) and the U.S. National Institute on Aging (U01AAG09740-13S2, P01 AG005842, P01 AG12815, Y1-AG-4553-01 and OGHA 04-064). The Austrian Science Fund, the Belgian Science Policy Office and the Swiss Federal Office of Education and Science also contributed.
