Fwd: National Health and Aging Trends Study data are available for download

From: Joan Stillwell <stillwel_at_nber.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:58:02 -0400

Dear members of the Aging Program:

Following is information about public use data which may be of interest.
--Joan Stillwell
Program Manager
Economics of Aging, NBER
617-588-0363
>From: "Agree, Emily" <eagree_at_jhsph.edu>
>Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:21:28 -0400
>Subject: National Health and Aging Trends Study data are available for
> download
>
>The Round 1 beta release public use files for
>the National Health and Aging Trends Study
>(NHATS) are now available at
>www.nhats.org. NHATS is designed to support
>analyses of disability trends and trajectories
>in older Americans. This initial data release
>provides both SAS and ASCII files, and codebooks.
>
>Additional documentation is available on the NHATS website:
>
>· Round 1 Instruments (annotated with variable names and labels),
>· User Guide that provides comprehensive descriptions of the NHATS
> conceptual framework, content of the baseline instrument,
> data file structure, created measures (including their origin),
> Information on special topics (e.g. weighting, imputation)
>· Crosswalk between instrument items and codebooks,
>· Technical papers.
>
>The beta version is an early release and users
>are encouraged to assist NHATS in documenting
>issues to be addressed before release of a final file this fall.
>
>
>Emily M. Agree, Ph.D.
>Director, Hopkins Center for Population Aging and Health
>Associate Director, Hopkins Population Center
>Associate Professor, Population, Family, and Reproductive Health
>Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
>615 North Wolfe Street, Room E4646
>Baltimore, MD 21205
Received on Thu Jun 07 2012 - 13:58:02 EDT