NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) Provider Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), University of Southern CaliforniaMicrodata access: Register Geography India (IND) Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan Coverage type Subnational Time period covered 11/2010 - 12/2010 Series or system India Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI) Data type Survey: Cross-sectionalHouseholdIndividualInterview Summary The Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI) pilot survey interivewed 1,600 individuals aged 45 and older and their spouses as preparation to design and implement a nationally representative LASI survey. The LASI pilot study took place in four states, two northern and two southern. In addition to collecting information through individual and household questionnaires, the LASI pilot also collected biomarker information through anthropometry, dried blood spots, and measurements of blood pressure, lung function, physical function, and vision. The LASI pilot was designed to be comparable with other longitudinal studies on aging similar to the Health and Retirement Study in the United States, including the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retimrent in Europe (SHARE), the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and others. Keywords Agriculture, Alcohol use, Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, Animal injuries, Anthropometry, Antihypertensive drugs, Assets, Back pain, Birth place, Bladder cancer, Blood pressure, Blood tests, Brain and nervous system cancers, Breast cancer, Burns, Cancers, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Cervix uteri cancer, Chemotherapy, Chronic respiratory diseases, Colon and rectum cancers, Community health clinics, Cooking fuels, Corpus uteri cancer, Corrective lenses, Cough, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Disability, Disasters, Drownings, Edentulism, Education, Electricity, Employment, Employment benefits, Secondhand smoke, Falls, Family composition, Family size, Fatigue, Fever, Food expenditures, Headache, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health status, Hearing aids, Hearing loss, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Household expenditures, Housing, Housing conditions, Hypercholesterolemia, Hypertension, Income, Incontinence, Injuries, Insulin, Internet, Ischemic heart disease, Jaundice, Kidney and other urinary organ cancers, Land ownership, Languages, Larynx cancer, Leukemia, Limited mobility, Literacy, Liver cancer, Livestock, Loans, Malaria, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Maternal conditions, Medicines, Menopause, Menstruation, Mental and behavioral disorders, Mental health symptoms, Mobility aids, Mouth cancer, Musculoskeletal diseases, Occupational injuries, Oesophagus cancer, Ovary cancer, Pain, Pancreas cancer, Paralysis, Parental survival, Parkinson's disease, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Pharynx cancers, Physical activity, Physical therapy, Poisonings, Pregnancy, Private health facilities, Prostate cancer, Prostheses and implants, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Radiation therapy, Religion, Respiratory function tests, Road traffic injuries, Sanitation, Self-treatment, Skin cancers, Stomach cancer, Stroke, Summary birth history, Surgical procedures, Symptoms, Telephones, Testicular cancer, Thyroid cancer, Tobacco smoking, Trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers, Traditional healers, Traditional medicine, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Unemployment, Violence, Vision loss, Vomiting, Water supply, Weight change Citation Contributors International Institute for Population Sciences (India) Harvard School of Public Health RAND Corporation Funders National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Suggested citation Harvard School of Public Health, International Institute for Population Sciences (India), RAND Corporation. India Longitudinal Aging Study Pilot 2010. GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 5, 2021