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The dynamics of ageing
— evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing 2002-10 (Wave 5) | | Author(s) | James Banks, James Nazroo, Andrew Steptoe |
| Corporate Author | English Longitudinal Study of Ageing - ELSA |
| Publisher | Institute for Fiscal Studies - IFS, London, 2012 |
| Pages | 321 pp |
| Source | The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE. E-mail: mailbox@ifs.org.uk http://www.ifs.org.uk |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | Michael Marmot and Andrew Steptoe introduce this report of the wave 5 study, which uses data collected from July 2010 to June 2011 inclusive, a period of considerable change with the installation of the Coalition government and the start of a period of austerity. The data is based on interviews with 10,274 people (including 9,000 "core" participants). Design and collection was carried out as a collaboration between the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London (UCL), the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), and the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. This and previous ELSA reports present a detailed picture of the lives of people in England aged 50 and over. This report discusses three main themes: pension wealth; social detachment in older age; and health and psychological well-being. A chapter on methodology explains the sample design, interview content and the approach to fieldwork; it also notes a new module of questions to measure financial risk-taking. Reference tables on the economic, social and health domains summarise important variables collected by ELSA. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-121016201 B |
| Classmark | BG: CC: F: 3J: 82 |
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