Harmonized English Longitudinal Study of Ageing COVID-19 Study, Version A, 2020

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P>&nbsp;<br><p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal">The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (see the main study under SN 5050) is a longitudinal household survey for the study of health, economic position, and quality of life among the elderly.
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<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span>The ELSA COVID-19 Study, Waves 1-2, 2020 (SN 8688) is a follow-up substudy based on the sample of the main ELSA study. Within the context of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, all participants for the COVID-19 substudy were selected from the existing ELSA sample to measure the socio-economic effects/psychological impact of the lockdown on the 50+ population of England. The ELSA COVID-19 substudy allows a cross-sectional analysis of the dynamics of the lockdown, enabling too the possibility to link the data collected with previous and future waves of ELSA for longitudinal analysis.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span>Subsequent to that, the University of Southern California (USC) <a href="https://g2aging.org/home">Gateway to Global Aging</a> Data team has created the Harmonized ELSA COVID data file, along with a codebook, to facilitate cross-country comparisons across international harmonized COVID studies,&nbsp;</span><span>including the harmonized <a href="https://covid.g2aging.org/?page=study&amp;id=1">Health and Retirement Study (HRS) COVID</a>&nbsp;study and the harmonized <a href="https://covid.g2aging.org/?page=study&amp;id=3">Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) COVID</a> study</span><span>.&nbsp;</span>This is a separate data product which is a user-friendly version of a subset of the ELSA COVID-19 substudy. The Harmonized ELSA COVID dataset uses data from the third&nbsp;edition of the ELSA COVID-19 substudy, released in February 2022. It follows the conventions of variable naming and data structure first developed by the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.</p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"><span>The harmonized ELSA COVID data file is built using variables from the harmonized ELSA data file (SN 5050) and the ELSA COVID-19 substudy data files (SN 8688). It does not include any data which is not released under UKDS End User Licence access conditions.</span></p>
<p class="x_x_x_x_MsoNormal"></p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br><p>Topic areas include:&nbsp;</p><ul><li><span>demographics;&nbsp;</span></li><li><span>mental health;&nbsp;</span></li><li><span>financial security;&nbsp;</span></li><li><span>COVID-19-related health; </span></li><li><span>e</span><span>mployment and work;&nbsp;</span></li><li><span>financial situation;&nbsp;</span></li><li><span>volunteering and care;&nbsp;</span></li><li><span>physical health and health behaviours;&nbsp;</span></li><li><span>social connection isolation and technological inclusion;&nbsp;</span></li><li><span>income, pensions and retirement.</span></li></ul>