Ohio Longitudinal Study on Aging and Retirement, 1975-1995

The Ohio Longitudinal Study on Aging and Retirement was begun in 1975 to investigate certain aspects of the retirement process and their impact on the physical aging and the social adjustment of individuals.
<br /><br /> In 1975, Miami University's Scripps Foundation Gerontology Center launched a study of all adults who were age 50 or over living in Oxford Township, Ohio. More than 1,500 individuals were mailed a 42-item, self-administered questionnaire, consisting mainly of precoded items. Over 1,100 individuals returned questionnaires, 1,106 of which were usable.<br /><br /> The questionnaire tapped issues of retirement, leisure activities, life satisfaction, as well as basic demographic information such as age, employment status and history, marital status, etc.
<br /><br /> Follow-up questionnaires were mailed to participants in 1977, 1979, 1981, 1991, and 1995. Follow-up questionnaires were designed to assess changes in the respondents' lives and their subsequent effects. The 1977 and 1979 questionnaires essentially replicated the 1975 questionnaire. After the third wave, research objectives included factors involved in adjustment to retirement over time, adjustment to widowhood, intergenerational contact, and adjustment to physical limitations due to disability.<br /><br /> The Murray Research Archive holds numeric data files from the 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1991, and 1995 waves of data collection.

俄亥俄州老龄化与退休纵向研究（Ohio Longitudinal Study on Aging and Retirement）于1975年启动，旨在探究退休进程的若干维度及其对个体生理衰老与社会适应的影响。<br /><br /> 1975年，迈阿密大学斯克里普斯基金会老年学中心（Miami University's Scripps Foundation Gerontology Center）针对居住在俄亥俄州牛津镇的所有50岁及以上成年人发起此项研究。研究人员向超过1500名受试者邮寄了一份包含42个题项的自填式调查问卷，问卷主体多为预编码题项。最终回收问卷逾1100份，其中1106份为有效问卷。<br /><br /> 该问卷涵盖退休、休闲活动、生活满意度等议题，同时收集年龄、就业状况与经历、婚姻状况等基础人口统计学信息。<br /><br /> 研究团队分别于1977年、1979年、1981年、1991年及1995年向受试者邮寄追踪调查问卷，以评估受访者生活状况的变化及其后续影响。1977年与1979年的问卷基本复刻了1975年的问卷内容。在第三轮数据收集后，研究目标拓展至长期退休适应、丧偶适应、代际接触以及因残疾导致的身体机能受限适应等相关影响因素。<br /><br /> 默里研究档案馆（Murray Research Archive）保存了该研究1975、1977、1979、1981、1991及1995年各轮数据收集所产生的数值型数据文件。