CRELES-2: Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study - Wave 2, 2006-2008 (Costa Rica Estudio de Longevidad y Envejecimiento Saludable, Ronda 2) (ICPSR 31263)

Version Date: Oct 23, 2013

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Principal Investigator(s):
Luis Rosero-Bixby, Universidad de Costa Rica; Xinia Fernández, Universidad de Costa Rica; William H. Dow, University of California-Berkeley

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31263.v1

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Summary

The Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES, or Costa Rica Estudio de Longevidad y Envejecimiento Saludable) is a nationally representative longitudinal survey of health and lifecourse experiences of 2,827 Costa Ricans ages 60 and over in 2005, the baseline collection. CRELES-2 refers to the second wave of visits in this longitudinal study, and includes the results from these visits. The first wave of interviews, or baseline, of CRELES is also available at http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26681. The second wave fieldwork was conducted from October 2006 to July 2008, with 2,364 surviving and contacted participants. The original sample was drawn from Costa Rican residents in the 2000 population census who were born in 1945 or before, with an over-sample of the oldest-old (ages 95 and over). Vital statistics indicate that Costa Rica has an unusually high life expectancy for a middle-income country, even higher than that of the United States, but CRELES is the first nationally representative survey to investigate adult health levels in Costa Rica. CRELES public use data files contain information on a broad range of topics including self-reported physical health, psychological health, living conditions, health behaviors, health care utilization, social support, and socioeconomic status. Objective health indicators include anthropometrics, observed mobility, and biomarkers from fasting blood samples (such as cholesterol, glycosylated hemoglobin, and C-reactive protein). Mortality events are tracked and conditions surrounding death are measured in a surviving family interview.

Citation

Rosero-Bixby, Luis, Fernández, Xinia, and Dow, William H. CRELES-2: Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study - Wave 2, 2006-2008 (Costa Rica Estudio de Longevidad y Envejecimiento Saludable, Ronda 2). Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-10-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31263.v1

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Funding

Wellcome Trust (United Kingdom) (072406 /Z/03/Z)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2006-10 -- 2008-07

Date of Collection

2006-10 -- 2008-07

Data Collection Notes

  1. Interviewer's names have been blanked due to confidentiality concerns.

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Study Purpose

The main study objective was to determine the length and quality of life, and its contributing factors in the elderly of Costa Rica.

Study Design

The study consists of baseline data collection and two-year household follow-up surveys. The second wave was conducted during 2007. It includes a structured interview, an exit interview mainly of relatives of deceased participants, anthropometric measurements, physical functioning tests and the draw of blood samples. All the data and specimens were gathered in the homes of the participants, generally in two visits. In the first visit the participants granted their informed consent by means of their signature, they answered a main questionnaire of around 90 minutes, they answered a short (about 10 minute) diet questionnaire, blood pressure was measured twice during the survey, and in the evening participants began fasting. In the second visit to the participant's home early the following day, fasting blood samples were drawn, the anthropometric measurements were taken, and the physical functionality tests were performed (including hand-strength and maximum peak of breathing flow). At the beginning of the main interview a cognitive evaluation was included that, together with the interviewer's criteria, established whether or not a "Proxy" informant for the participant was needed to help respond to the survey. Of the interviews, 25 percent were conducted with the help of a Proxy.

Sample

In the first stage of the design model, a random selection was made from the database of the Population Census of the year 2000, totaling 9,600 individuals 55 years of age or older, after a stratification by five-year age groups that assures a sufficiently large number of observations for advanced ages. The sampling fraction in this selection varies between 1 percent for the ones born in 1941-1945 and 100 percent for the ones born before 1905. For the detailed longitudinal follow-up, a sub-sample was selected consisting of 60 "Areas of Health" (from a total of 102 in the whole country) aggregated into sub-regions. The sample covers 59 percent of the national territory.

Time Method

Longitudinal

Universe

Costa Rican residents aged 60 years and older in 2005, at baseline.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Response Rates

95 percent provided blood samples; 95 percent provided urine samples; 91 percent completed anthropometry module; 25 percent use of proxy respondent for interview and questionnaire.

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Original Release Date

2013-10-23

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Rosero-Bixby, Luis, Xinia Fernández, and William H. Dow. CRELES-2: Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study - Wave 2, 2006-2008 (Costa Rica Estudio de Longevidad y Envejecimiento Saludable, Ronda 2). ICPSR31263-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-10-23. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31263.v1

2013-10-23 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Created online analysis version with question text.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.