Coordination of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (CO-SHARE).

SHARE-ERIC is one of the largest research infrastructures in human sciences in Europe. The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a micro data set on health, socio-economic status, and social networks of 140,000 individuals aged 50+ in 27 European countries and Israel. Since 2004, the SHARE project has completed eight waves, one every two-years (480,000 interviews), plus two other waves in 2020 and 2021 dedicated to the impact of COVID-19. The anonymized data enable registered researchers to analyze the health, social, and economic life dimensions of the ageing population. By July 2021, more than 3,000 scientific publications are based on SHARE data. Also national and international institutions such as the European Union rely on SHARE data to construct cross-country comparable statistics on ageing. The applicants, CSB (UA) and CREPP (ULg), have been associated to the SHARE project from the beginning and act as Country Teams in charge of the project for the Dutch and French speaking population, respectively. From the creation of the SHARE-ERIC Consortium in 2011, Belgian federal entities supported the SHARE project in Belgium: BELSPO covers coordination costs and FWO and FWB cover fieldwork costs upon the Dutch and French speaking population. With the current project we aim to continuate the funding of the essential coordination activities of the SHARE project.

Keywords:AGEING

Disciplines:Social gerontology and sociology of ageing

Project type:Collaboration project