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China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2011-2012

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
中国健康与养老追踪调查
Provider 
National School of Development, Peking University
Microdata access: Register
Geography 
China (CHN)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
05/2011 - 03/2012
Series or system 
China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)
Data type
Survey:
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
Summary 

The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) collects comprehensive data on the elderly, their spouses, and their households. The study utilizes a multistage, stratified, random sampling method, and it uses household, individual and community questionnaires. With consent from participants, surveyors collected physical measurements of height, weight, waist circumference, leg and arm length, grip strength, pulse, and lung capacity. Blood pressure measurements and blood tests were also conducted. The 2011-2012 baseline survey covered 17,708 individuals (in 10,257 households with members 45 years and older) in 28 provinces. In 2008, CHARLS began as a pilot survey in the provinces of Gansu and Zhejiang.

Keywords 
Aged adults, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Anthropometry, Assets, Birth place, Blood glucose, Blood pressure, Blood tests, Body mass index, Cancers, Cataracts, Causes of death, Causes of morbidity, Cervix uteri cancer, Chemotherapy, Cholesterol tests, Chronic kidney diseases, Community health clinics, Complete birth history, Cooking fuels, Digestive diseases, Disability, Disasters, Domestic migration, Education, Electricity, Employment, Employment benefits, Encephalitis, Family composition, Family size, Headache, Health care access, Health care expenditures, Health care services, Health insurance, Health status, Hearing aids, Heart disease, Height, Hemoglobin, Hepatitis B, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household expenditures, Household heat, Housing conditions, Housing materials, Hypertension, Income, Incontinence, Infectious diseases, Infrastructure, Injections, Internet, Land ownership, Limited mobility, Livestock, Marital status, Mass media, Medicines, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mobility aids, Mouth cancer, Musculoskeletal diseases, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Nursing homes, Occupation codes, Occupations, Oesophagus cancer, Ovary cancer, Pain, Pancreas cancer, Parental survival, Personal health expenditures, Physical activity, Population, Prices, Private health facilities, Prostate cancer, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Pulse, Rabies, Radiation therapy, Refrigeration, Roads, Sanitation, Schistosomiasis, Schools, Skin cancers, Sleep, Stomach cancer, Summary sibling history, Surgical procedures, Taxes, Telephones, Testicular cancer, Thyroid cancer, Tobacco smoking, Trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Urban ambient air pollution, Violence, Vision loss, Waste disposal, Water supply, Weight, Weight change
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