Research infrastructure The European research infrastructure SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) is a transdisciplinary and longitudinal interview-based study of the effects of health, social, economic and environmental policies over the life-course of European citizens and beyond. SHARE is representend in 28 European countries and Israel and is involved in a network of global sister surveys.
SHARE is studying the effects of health, social, economic and environmental policies over the life-course of European citizens and beyond. From 2004 until today, 616,000 in-depth interviews with 159,000 respondents aged 50 or older from 28 European countries and Israel have been conducted. SHARE is the largest pan-European social science panel study providing internationally comparable longitudinal micro data, which allows insights in the fields of public health and socio-economic living conditions of European individuals, both for scientists and policy makers.
SHARE allows studying the non-intended socio-economic and health consequences of the epidemiological containment decisions and the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic due to its life-course and multidisciplinary approach combining health with socio-economic data. SHARE has global impact since it not only covers all EU member countries in a strictly harmonised way but additionally is embedded in a network of sister studies all over the world, from the Americas to Eastern Asia, now also expanding to Africa
SHARE was founded in 2002 and thus far, nine waves of data collection have been conducted, with a tenth one planned for 2024. Additionally, a specific COVID-19-study was conducnted in 2020, with a follow-up in 2021 (SHARE-COVID Survey1 and 2). In 2011, SHARE was given legal status as the first ever European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).
In each participating country, a country team manages the national or regional data collection. Sweden has been a member of SHARE since 2014, and the Swedish team is located at Umeå University.
The Swedish part of SHARE is also part of two National research infrastructures that receive funding from the Swedish Research Council:
The SHARE data is anonymised stored at Centerdata, a research institute located on the Tilburg University campus in the Netherlands.
Data is accesssible online for resarchers working at a research organisation. In order to gain access, researchers must show that their planned research is of relevance for SHARE. You can find more information on SHARE's data access site.
You can find more information on the SHARE webpage or contact Gunnar Malmberg, the head of the Swedish country team (see contact details below).
More information about CORS can be found on the CORS webpage and CORS website at Umeå University.
More information about NEAR can be found on the NEAR webpage.
