Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
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Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
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Date started: 01 May 2001
The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing is an exciting new study, the aim of ELSA is to become an interdisciplinary data resource on health, economic position and quality of life as people age. The survey will cover the broad set of topics relevant to a full understanding of the ageing process, these include:
- Health, disability, healthy life expectancy
- The relationship between economic position and health
- The determinants of economic position in older age
- The timing and circumstances of retirement and post-retirement labour market activity
- The nature of social networks, support and participation
- Household and family structure and the transfer of resources.
All available publications
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This report examines a range of quantitative evidence to shed light on how current older cohorts of defined contribution (DC) pension fund holders are approaching and deadline with retirement and annuitisation.
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This paper investigates whether number of children and, among parents, having a daughter is associated with older people's likelihood of at least weekly face-to-face social contact and later receipt of help if needed.
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This report provides a new assessment of the proportion of people aged between 50 and the State Pension Age (SPA) who are at risk of having inadequate resources in retirement and considers the characteristics associated with the risk of such inadequacy.
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Paper given at the ELSA Wave 5 Launch, at the Royal Society
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Paper given at the ELSA Wave 5 Launch, at the Royal Society
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This report is the fifth wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, a survey of people of 50 and over in England.
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Paper given at the ELSA Wave 5 Launch at the Royal Society
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Paper given at the ELSA Wave 5 Launch at the Royal Society.
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Paper given at the ELSA Wave 5 Launch at the Royal Society
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Paper given at the ELSA Wave 5 Launch at the Royal Society
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Paper given at the ELSA Wave 5 Launch at the Royal Society
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Investigations in economics of ageing.
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We use these data and earlier ELSA waves first to document the effect of the crisis on the finances of those aged 50 and over in England, and second, to estimate the effect of wealth shocks on household consumption and individual expectations of the future.
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This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes.
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This paper looks at the history of American diabetes.
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This article aims to evaluate the associations of emergent genome-wide-association study-derived coronary heart disease (CHD)-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with established and emerging risk factors, and the association of genome-wide-association study-derived lipid-associated SNPs with other risk factors and CHD events.
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Our primary aim is to develop and validate a population health metric for survey-based health assessment that combines information from both self-reported and observer-measured health indicators
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This article explores how blood pressure is a heritable trait influenced by several biological pathways and responsive to environmental stimuli.
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This document describes how to use the derived income and asset variables for ELSA Waves 1 to 4.
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This User Guide contains information about the third release of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Index File.
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A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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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.
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This document describes how to use the derived pension wealth variables for ELSA Wave 1.
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This User Guide covers the ELSA self-completion data relating to personal beliefs and wellbeing, otherwise known as the Ryff scale.
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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.
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This document accompanies the first version of data from Wave 1 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).
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Three derived variables are included in the wave 3 pension grid to summarise the status of each pension.
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The nurse interview comprised a personal face-to-face CAPI interview and the collection of a number of different measures.
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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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To investigate whether older adults participating in social activities are more likely to maintain or achieve recommended waist circumference (WC) levels.
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The objective of this research was to identify the effects of participation in learning on the subjective wellbeing of older adults.
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This article investigates cross-national differences in late-life health outcomes and focus on an intriguing difference in beliefs about personal control found between older adult populations in the U.K. and United States.
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To investigate whether the impact of negative and positive social exchanges on depression depends on relationship type among late middle age and older adults.
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This article examines the extent to which cognitive abilities relate to differences in trajectories for key economic outcomes as individuals move towards and through their retirement.
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This report covers the fourth wave of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, a survey of people of 50 and over in England.
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This is a chapter of the wave 4 analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
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This is a chapter of the wave 4 analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
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To explore geographical and sociodemographic factors associated with variation in equity in access to total hip and knee replacement surgery
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To investigate the association of polymorphisms in complement factor H (CFH) and coronary heart disease (CHD) using meta-analysis.
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This article examines gender differences in health at ages 50 years and older in 11 European countries, England and the USA.
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This study aims to examine clustering of smoking, low levels of physical activity, and risky drinking in older adults and the relationship of these behaviors with measures of SES.
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This study aims to investigate the association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and physical disability at older age, using a framework that incorporates education, social class and wealth.
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We aimed to examine associations between the PON1 Q192R polymorphism and self-reported poor health and depression in two independent population-based studies.
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In this paper, we identify methodological differences and similarities in the measurement of wealth using survey data constructed for different purposes in the UK and separately for England.
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In this paper we investigate the size of health differences that exist among men in England and the United States and how those differences vary by Socio-Economic Status (SES) in both countries.
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The tables in this paper present a description of the distribution of wealth amongst those aged 50 and over in England in 2002/3, with the analysis split by a series of different factors.
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This technical report focuses on ELSA's methodology and the conduct of wave 3.
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The objective of this study is to assess health behaviours in cancer survivors in a population-based sample of older adults in the United Kingdom.
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Analyses incorporating large independent population-based samples and identical measures are needed to investigate recent trends in cognitive function.
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The objective of this study is to examine whether wealth gradients in the incidence of illness decline with age, and, if so, whether this decline is explained by differential mortality.
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We compared the health of older US, English, and other European adults, stratified by wealth.
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This chapter is part of a volume which addresses the relationship between health and economic status, including why health behaviours vary across populations and how socioeconomic measures correlate with health outcomes.
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The objective of this paper is to examine the association between a biomarker of exposure to secondhand smoke (salivary cotinine concentration) and cognitive impairment.
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We examined if persistent depressive symptoms are associated with markers of inflammation and coagulation, and if this association can be partly explained by weight control and behavioural risk factors.
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This paper examines whether participation in social activities is associated with higher levels of wellbeing among post-retirement age people in England, and, if so, whether these relationships are explained by the reciprocal nature of these activities.
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This technical report focuses specifically on the ELSA's methodology and conduct of the second wave
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The objective of this study was to investigate whether psychological well-being is associated with levels of cognitive function.
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The gene filaggrin (FLG) codes for a protein that cross-links keratin and is critical in forming a healthy top layer of skin.
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We investigated whether SLC2A9 is a functional urate transporter that contributes to the longstanding association between urate and blood pressure in man.
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The objective of this study was to assess the receipt of effective healthcare interventions in England by adults aged 50 or more with serious health conditions.
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The aim of this study is to contribute further to the understanding of the association between parental longevity and offspring's successful ageing.
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The objective of this stidy is to estimate the effects of excess body weight on objective and subjective physical function and mortality risks in noninstitutionalized older adults.
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The poorest older people are more than twice as likely to die at any given age than the richest.
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This presentation was given at the launch of a report on the third wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
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This presentation was given at the launch of a report on the third wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
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This presentation was given at the launch of a report on the third wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
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Analysis of the third wave of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
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The objective of this study was to assess whether incident mobility disability and neighbourhood deprivation in older people are associated independent of the effects of individual socio-economic status, health behaviours and health status.
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This study examined the link between SSS and health in old age and investigated whether SSS mediated the associations between objective indicators of socioeconomic status and health.
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This chapter looks at some simple patterns emerging from ELSA to paint a broad-brush picture of the distribution of outcomes that can be expected for the cohort members between now and when they reach the state pension age.
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This article examines the relationship between stroke risk and cognitive function in a large sample of community-dwelling individuals free from a history of stroke or dementia.
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The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between 10-year risk for incident stroke and cognitive function in a large population-based sample.
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This paper describes the conceptual development of a self-enumerated scale of quality of life (CASP-19) and presents an empirical evaluation of its structure using a combination of exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic approaches across three different survey settings for older people living in England and Wales in the new millennium.
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The objective is to to identify socio-economic, behavioural and disease status risks for impaired balance or self-reported dizziness in older people from a large population-based study.
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The objectives were to assess the relationship between cognitive function, socioeconomic status, and neighborhood deprivation.
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This study explores the association between age identity, perceptions of age, and health.
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This paper investigates between self-reported health status and quality of life at older ages.
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This article contributes to the debate about retirement age and the extent to which occupational pensions influence the decision to retire.
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One of the most ubiquitous global health measures is a single self-rated health item.
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This project based on the ELSA data will explore social exclusion and dimensions of social isolation in people 50 years old and over with emphasis on people 80 years old and over.
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The objective of this paper was to assess the association between physical activity and subsequent physical functioning in middle-aged adults across a range of body mass index (BMI) categories.
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This User Guide provides detailed information pertaining to the Life History Interview component of ELSA Wave 3.
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We investigated whether health potential (indicated by height) was realised among those experiencing financial disadvantage in later life.
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The objective was to assess whether transition into retirement is associated with increased rates of smoking cessation.
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In this paper, we identify methodological differences and similarities in the measurement of wealth using survey data constructed for different purposes in the United Kingdom and England.
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This technical report focuses specifically on the study's methodology and the conduct of the ELSA Wave 1 survey.
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We investigated the following question: Would access to and use of domestic information and communication technology affect people's attachment to place in later life?
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The objective of this study was to examine the role of dual sensory loss in the onset and persistence of depression in older persons living in U.K.
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The objective was to test the effect of time since labour market exit on associations between socioeconomic position and self-rated health.
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This paper finds that in middle-aged and older men and women, moderate levels of alcohol consumption are associated with better cognitive health than abstinence.
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This paper sets out to assess whether there is a relationship between smoking and levels of overall quality of life, or with the pleasure domain of quality of life, in lower socio-economic groups (SES).
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The Whitehall II study of British civil servants was set up with the explicit purpose of testing hypotheses as to the causes of the social gradient in cardiovascular and other diseases.
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Our objectives were to determine the temporal relationship between pain and depression, and to investigate whether these two syndromes share predictors.
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In this paper we examine the relative health status of mature men in the US and the UK.
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This paper sets out to estimate disability plus mortality risks in older people according to level of alcohol intake.
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Our objective was to compare the prevalence of existing hip and knee joint replacements with that of need in population groups in England.
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This paper presents an overview of the beginnings of a research agenda targeted towards increasing the empirical evidence on economic issues related to ageing in England and providing extensive data for subsequent research.
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Presentation at the launch of the report covering the second wave of the ELSA survey.
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Individuals who are 5059 years-old and from the poorest fifth of the population are over 10 times more likely to die than their peers from the richest fifth.
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This chapter looks at individual's spending and consumption patterns.
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The first wave of data from ELSA has provided, and still is providing, evidence on how the characteristics of those who are still in paid work at older ages differ from those who are not.
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Presentation at the launch of the report covering the second wave of the ELSA survey.
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Presentation at the launch of the report covering the second wave of the ELSA survey.
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Presentation at the launch of the report covering the second wave of the ELSA survey.
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Presentation at the launch of the report covering the second wave of the ELSA survey.
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Presentation at the launch of the report covering the second wave of the ELSA survey.
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This report covers the second wave of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, a survey of people of 50 and over in England.
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Presentation at the launch of the report covering the second wave of the ELSA survey.
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This articles sets out to assess the relative heath status of older individuals in England and the United States, especially how their health status varies by important indicators of socioeconomic position.
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Middle-aged English people are healthier than their American counterparts, according to a collaborative study issued today by English and US researchers.
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The objective of this paper is to investigate whether longstanding illnesses, social context, and current socioeconomic circumstances predict quality of life.
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In this paper we look at numerical ability and other dimensions of cognitive function in a sample of older adults in England and examine the extent to which these abilities are correlated with various measures of wealth and retirement saving outcomes.
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The main objective of this project was to measure the patterns of different forms of social exclusion among older people
and to examine the key risk factors, or indicators, of social exclusion among older people.
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While there is some degree of independence between physical and mental capability among older adults, the ageing process is associated with an average decline in both.
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Quality of life is the most desired patient centred outcome of medical care.
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To measure the risk of periretirement age disability associated with five different anthropometric measures of body mass and shape, and to compare the measures in this group, the peak age group of obesity prevalence.
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Mobility (locomotor) disability is an early marker of disability progression, health care utilisation and institutionalisation in older people. Whether mobility disability has different causes in the middle-aged has received limited attention.
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The aim of this analysis was to establish whether self-reported disability in walking medium distances (a quarter of a mile) in an English ageing study (ELSA) was comparable to similar self-reports in the US (NHANES) studies.
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This paper explains the methodology used for calculating pension wealth for all individuals in the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).
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This presentation provides an introduction to the ELSA survey.
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Longevity, health, economic resources, and social
and family circumstances are inexorably linked.
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This paper was presented at a seminar organised by the Economic and Social Research Council. It asks whether it is possible to design a pension system that can guarantee financial security to individuals, employers and to the state simultaneously.
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This chapter provides a complete cross-sectional description of the labour market activity and retirement status of the older population in England.
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This study analyses the results from the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
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Possibly one of the most pressing concerns in the debate on the ageing population is whether individuals will have adequate economic resources to maintain sufficient standards of living in retirement, and, if not, what the government can provide, in terms of health care and retirement income, to meet the needs of a population with an increasing fraction of older individuals.
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