Recent HRS Data Release The 2018 Tracker Early V1.0 file is now available on the HRS website.
The HRS Tracker file is created to facilitate the use of HRS data within and across waves. It has one observation for every person ever eligible to be interviewed in any wave and is updated with new information for every new survey wave. This version of Tracker updates for both the final release of HRS 2016 and the early release of HRS 2018. It includes information for all cases of the continuing cohorts (AHEAD, HRS, CODA, WB, EBB, MBB and LBB) enrolled for 2018 data collection. It also includes final household, respondent, and nursing home resident sampling weights for 2016 core, as well as weights for subsamples in the Venous Blood Study, Physical Measures, Biomarkers and the self-administered psychosocial questionnaire. Refer to the Data Description for more information.
The following data and documentation resources related to this data product are freely available from the HRS Website: - ASCII data files and corresponding SAS, SPSS and STATA program statements.
- New! SAS (.sas7bdat), SPSS (.sav) and Stata (.dta) ready-to-use files.
- Data Description - information on each dataset including description of content, advice on using the data and cross wave-merging.
- Codebook – describe the contents, structure and layout of the data. Our codebooks provide variable-level information in HTML format for core interviews and off-year studies.
- Questionnaires - the "box and arrow" representations of core interviews by section for all years.
- Question Concordance - a tool for cross-referencing survey questions across core interview years.
- Additional resources - user guides, video tutorials, publications based on analysis of HRS data and more.
Questions, comments or concerns about the Tracker file should be directed to the HRS Help Desk at hrsquestions@umich.edu. |
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