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English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

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The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) was established to address complex, policy-relevant questions within a rigorous scientific framework. ELSA tracks the multiple characteristics of participants as they move through middle to older ages, resulting in an invaluable source of high quality data. The broad research areas and questions motivating the design of the study include health trajectories, disability, and healthy life expectancy; the nature and determinants of economic position and resources in old age; the timing of retirement and postretirement labor market activity; the nature of social networks, social support and social participation at older ages; household and family structure and the transfer of resources; and most importantly, the linked dynamic relationships between all these domains. ELSA has been designed to maximize comparability with other international longitudinal studies on aging, such as the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) in the USA (See “He...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK

    Paola Zaninotto & Andrew Steptoe

  2. Department of Behavioral Science and Health, University College London, London, UK

    Andrew Steptoe

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  1. Paola Zaninotto
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  1. Population Division, UN Dept of Economic Social Affairs Population Division, New York, NY, USA

    Danan Gu

  2. School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA

    Matthew E. Dupre

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  1. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    David Weir Ph.D.

  2. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Mary Beth Ofstedal Ph.D.

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Zaninotto, P., Steptoe, A. (2019). English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_335-1

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