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Description & Citation
Description & Citation--Study No. 6250 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 6250 |
|---|---|
| Title: | World Health Organization Collaborative Study on Social and Health Aspects of Aging in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, 1991 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Gary R. Andrews |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Andrews, Gary R. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION COLLABORATIVE STUDY ON SOCIAL AND HEALTH ASPECTS OF AGING IN BAHRAIN, EGYPT, JORDAN, AND TUNISIA, 1991 [Computer file]. ICPSR06250-v1. Alexandria, Egypt: World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean [producer], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | These data were gathered to provide information on the elderly in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. Questions were asked regarding demographic characteristics (age, race, sex, marital status, religion, number of children and siblings, education), economic resources (employment status of respondent and of respondent's spouse, main income source, other income sources, whether house was owned), health (current health status, accidents and/or injuries affecting daily activities, number of times respondent saw a health professional in the previous month, number of days in hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center in the previous month, medications currently used, usage of any devices to assist in getting around), activities of daily living, living habits (smoking or drinking), social activities (club membership, whether respondent had a confidant), housing (satisfaction with current living conditions, accessibility to quarters, safety), and mental state of the respondent. |
| Subject Term(s): | Activities of Daily Living, aging, assistive devices, demographic characteristics, health status, housing, income, mental health, older adults, social behavior |
| Geographic Coverage: | Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Global |
| Time Period: | 1991 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1991 |
| Universe: | The noninstitutionalized elderly 60 years and older in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | Random sampling of persons over 60 in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. |
| Data Source: | personal interviews |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1998-05-11 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04. |
| 2006-03-30 - File CB6250.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
| 2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. | |
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