Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
Coordinating institute	Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Max-Planck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Location	Amalienstraße 33, 80799 Munich, Germany
Website	www.share-project.org

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks. In seven survey waves to date, SHARE has conducted approximately 380,000 interviews with about 140,000 individuals aged 50 and over. The survey covers 28 European countries and Israel.

SHARE was founded as a response to the European Commission's call to "examine the possibility of establishing, in co-operation with Member States, a European Longitudinal Ageing Survey". It has since become a major pillar of the European Research Area, selected as one of the projects to be implemented in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) in 2006 and was given a new legal status as the first ever European Research Infrastructure Consortium (SHARE-ERIC) in March 2011.

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