ELSA ELSA datasets and documentation available from the archive or by special arrangement Kate Cox National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

ELSA ELSA data and documentation in archive Wave 1 datasets Core variables Financial derived variables Pensions wealth Wave 1 documentation Questionnaire Field documents, coding & editing info etc. User guides for all datasets

ELSA Wave 1 Core Variables Dataset (1) Includes Current version Individual level file Data for all wave 1 respondents (N=12,100) Key variables - serial no.s, sample type, weighting All non-disclosive numeric variables in questionnaire Non-questionnaire variables: Admin variables - e.g. date of interview, no. of people in HH HSE variables Key derived variables - e.g. highest qualification

ELSA Wave 1 Core Variables Dataset (2) Excludes - potentially disclosive variables: Full date of birth Full interview date Detailed ethnicity and country of birth Text variables Geography variables

ELSA Questionnaire documentation Word document (pdf) Question wording for all modules (including self- completion) Interview instructions and checks Filtering Variables for multiple-response and open questions Annotations: Variables excluded from dataset Questions asked of proxy respondents as well as standard respondents (*) Questions asked ONLY of proxy respondents (**)

ELSA Core dataset user guide Sample info Weighting Structure of the questionnaire Key variables - e.g. serial numbers, outcome codes Excluded variables Coding and editing information Missing values List of all variables not annotated in questionnaire

ELSA Wave 1 field documents Self completion questionnaire Cognitive function booklet Showcards Codebook and edit instructions Project instructions Consent forms Advance letters

ELSA Future data to archive Wave 0 (HSE 98, 99, 01 ) Index file for linking Wave 1 household level data Wave 1 derived variables Wave 2 interview data Wave 2 nurse data and other data Time series data

ELSA Wave 0 datasets Separate dataset for each year , 1999, 2001 Common variables dataset Interview and nurse visit data Health data Other data - income, benefits, work, housing, other members of household

ELSA ELSA datasets - not in archive (1) Geography (HSE & ELSA Wave 1) Government Office Region Standard Statistical Region Local Authority Strategic Health Authority Health and Social Care Directorate Population Density Index of Multiple Deprivation Urban/Rural Indicator

ELSA ELSA datasets - not in archive (2) Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) Mortality and cancer data DWP and HMRC admin. data

ELSA Provision of non-archivable data Special datasets Match variables on at NatCen NatCen Data Enclave

ELSA Contacts Kate Cox, NatCen Tel: ELSA in UK archive: ELSA website: