The overarching goals of this project are: (1) to promote scientific inquiry into late-life disability trends and dynamics, their antecedents and correlates, and disparities therein and (2) to advance study of the social and economic consequences of late-life disability for individuals, families, and society. To achieve these aims, project has the following goals: Collect data… Continue reading National Health and Aging Trends Study
Research Theme: SRC
Surveys of Consumers
The Surveys of Consumers measure consumer expectations to capture the impact of the expectations of consumers on their spending and saving behavior. The U.S. Department of Commerce selected the consumer expectations index as a component of the Index of Leading Economic Indicators due to its ability to predict future changes in the economy. The data… Continue reading Surveys of Consumers
Army Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS) Longitudinal Study
Army Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS) is the largest study of mental health risk and resilience ever conducted among military personnel. Army STARRS investigators looked for factors that help protect a Soldier’s mental health and factors that put a Soldier’s mental health at risk. Army STARRS ran from July 2009 through… Continue reading Army Study To Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (STARRS) Longitudinal Study
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world’s longest running household panel survey. With five decades of data collected on the same families and their descendants, the PSID is a cornerstone of the data infrastructure for empirically-based social science research in the U.S. and the world. With its long-term measures of economic and… Continue reading Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth (MTF)
Monitoring the Future (MTF) study is an ongoing epidemiological and etiological research and reporting project that began in 1975. In addition to being a basic research study, MTF has become one of the nation’s most relied upon sources of information on emerging trends in illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use among American adolescents, college students,… Continue reading Monitoring the Future: Drug Use and Lifestyles of American Youth (MTF)
Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is the largest national panel study of Americans over age 50. Supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740) and the Social Security Administration, the HRS provides decades of cutting-edge, free publicly available data on aging, supporting research, policy, and innovation to address the challenges of a rapidly… Continue reading Health and Retirement Study (HRS)