User guides

These user guides give details about the ELSA datasets and how to use them.

01 November 2011
This document describes how to use the derived income and asset variables for ELSA Waves 1 to 4.
01 November 2011
This User Guide contains information about the third release of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Index File.
23 October 2011
This document describes how to use the derived pension wealth variables for ELSA Wave 1.
23 October 2011
The excel spreadsheet pengrid_var_correspondence.xls' (which is also available as part of the ELSA Wave 2 documentation) shows how the variables in the pension-level dataset relate to those contained in the main individual-level dataset.
23 October 2011
This User Guide covers the ELSA self-completion data relating to personal beliefs and wellbeing, otherwise known as the Ryff scale.
18 October 2011
This user guide describes how pensions in the ELSA data have been categorised and which variables are included in this separate pensions grid, including some additional derived variables not previously available.
07 October 2011
This document accompanies the first version of data from Wave 1 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).
07 October 2011
Three derived variables are included in the wave 3 pension grid to summarise the status of each pension.
04 October 2011
The nurse interview comprised a personal face-to-face CAPI interview and the collection of a number of different measures.
02 October 2011
The nurse interview comprised a personal face-to-face CAPI interview, the taking of a number of different measures and an additional voluntary self-completion questionnaire.

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