NHATS and HRS
The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC), and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) are NIA-funded, U.S. national, longitudinal studies which users can access through the respective project sites.
Researchers will need to register with each site to access the public data. NACDA does not host data for these series through our site. Check our NACDA Portal for variable metadata comparisons using NHATS and HRS cognitive items.
| Study | Year Began | Sample Info | Topic: Cognition | Topic: Retirement | Topic: Social Network | Topic: Biomeasures | Topic: Mental Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIDUS | 1995 | General pop. survey, as well as surveys of siblings of the general pop. respondents, and a twin pairs sample. The main data collection included an oversample of five metropolitan areas. | x | x | x | x | x |
| NSHAP | 2005 | Complex, multistage area probability sample of community residing adults born 1920-1947; included an oversampling of African-Americans and Hispanics. The NSHAP sample is built on the foundation of the national household screening carried out by HRS in 2004. | x | x | x | x | |
| HRS | 1992 | Representative sample of approx. 20,000 people in America. | x | x | x | x | x |
| NHATS | 2011 | Nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries ages 65 and older. | x | x | x | x |