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United States Health and Retirement Study 1996

General Info

Provider 
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Microdata access: Register
Geography 
United States of America (USA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
May, 1996 - February, 1997
Data type
Survey: Household - Individual - Interview - Longitudinal
Summary 

The HRS is a longitudinal cohort study of the health, retirement and aging of more than 22,000 Americans over the age of 50. Conducted every two years, the collected data assess mental and physical changes, family support, insurance coverage, financial well-being, employment, and retirement planning of the respondents. Questionnaire topics include physical and cognitive functioning, retirement plans, family structure and transfers, demographic characteristics, housing, employment status, income, disability, health insurance, pension plans, job history, and attitudes, preferences, and expectations for the future.

Data was collected on the following cohorts in the 1996 HRS survey:

  • HRS: R born 1931-1941
Keywords 
Alcohol use, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, Assets, Asthma, Back and neck pain, Birth place, Breathing difficulty, COPD, Cancers, Cardiomyopathies, Cardiovascular surgical procedures, Chemotherapy, Children, Chronic kidney diseases, Cohort study, Congenital anomalies, Corrective lenses, Cough, Diabetes, Diagnosis, Disability, Domestic migration, Education, Electricity, Employment, Employment benefits, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Food industry, General surgery, Health care use, Health insurance, Health status, Hearing aids, Heart disease, Heart failure, Height, Hemorrhagic stroke, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household expenditures, Household heat, Housing, Housing conditions, Hypercholesterolemia, Hypertension, Income, Injuries, Insulin, International migration, Interventions, Land ownership, Life expectancy, Limited mobility, Living conditions, Marital status, Medicines, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mental health symptoms, Military service, Mobility aids, Nursing homes, Nutrition, Occupational injuries, Occupational risk factors, Occupations, Parents, Peptic ulcer disease, Personal health expenditures, Physical activity, Preventive interventions, Processed foods, Public social assistance, Race, Radiation therapy, Religion, Rheumatoid arthritis, Stroke, Surgical procedures, Symptoms, Tobacco smoking, Unemployment, Unintentional injuries, Weight, Weight change, Working conditions

Citation

Primary investigator 
Juster F. Thomas, Willis Robert J.
Contributors 
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Funders 
National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Publisher 
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Publication year 
2007
Suggested citation 

Health and Retirement Study, (Biennial 1996) public use dataset. Produced and distributed by the University of Michigan with funding from the National Institute on Aging (grant number NIA U01AG009740). Ann Arbor, MI, (2011).


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