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China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study |
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The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) is a biennial survey in China being conducted by the National School of Development (China Center for Economic Research) at Peking University. CHARLS aims to be representative of the residents of China age 45 and older, with no upper age limit. The sample size is estimated to be around 10,000 households and 17,000 individuals. The baseline of the CHARLS pilot took place in two provinces in the fall of 2008 and the next wave will take place in 2011. CHARLS is part of a set of longitudinal aging surveys that include surveys in the United State, England, nineteen countries in continental Europe, Korea, Japan, and India. CHARLS aims to set up a high quality, nationally representative and publicly available micro-database that provides a wide range of information about the households of the elderly and also individual information on the elderly respondents and their spouses. CHARLS provides broad data that allows for analysis by multiple disciplines. All data stripped of private identifying information will be available for research use at no charge. The household survey includes seven parts: (a) Demographic Background (b) Family (c) Health Status and Functioning (d) Health Care and Insurance (e) Work, Retirement and Pension (f, g) Household and Individual Income, Expenditure and Assets (h) Interviewer Observation There is also a community survey. |
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