The 2001 Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS) Final Version is now available. CAMS included questions about individual activities, household patterns of consumption, and individual use of prescription drugs.

PRI Affiliates may request these data from the Data Archivist.

This HRS Sub-sample (Early Release: Version 1.0) has several different topical areas including Internet/computers, health problem, disability and work limitations, numeracy items, psychosocial items, expectations, and questions about housing/checking accounts, and stocks.

PRI Affiliates may request these data from the Data Archivist.

This HRS Supplement (Version 1.0) is the first of a two wave mail survey designed to track changes in prescription drug utilization as Medicare Part D, the prescription drug benefit, is phased in.

PRI Affiliates may request these data from the Data Archivist.

HRS has announced the following data:

2005 Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS)
Imputations for Pension Wealth
HRS 2002 Exit

PRI Affiliates may request these data from the Data Archivist.

David Weir, Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan and Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, will be giving a presentation this afternoon at the Center on Population Health and Aging seminar series on Life Course, Health and Aging. Dr. Weir, who is co-director of the Health and Retirement Study will speak on the topic of “Putting more Health in the Health and Retirement Study”. The talk is at 3:00 pm in 302 Pond Lab. Everyone is welcome.

The HRS 2004 Cross-Wave Tracker file acquired 9/7/2006 is now available in the PRI HRS SodaPop Collection.

The HRS 2004 Final Version 1.0 acquired 9/7/2006 is now available in the PRI HRS SodaPop Collection.

The HRS 2004 Cross-Wave Tracker Files (data, statistical input, and documentation) are now available on PopNet UNIX. The files will be added to the PRI HRS SodaPop Collection in the near future.

Please note that there is an errata notice for this file. When the file is added to SodaPop the error will be corrected.

Users must register with HRS prior to obtaining access to these files (if you have registered before to use any HRS public-use data, you do not need to register again).

The HRS 2004 Core “Final” Version 1.0 - release on 8/29/2006 - is now available for use by PRI researchers is /nfs/data/public/hrs/2004. The data and documentation will be added to the PRI HRS SodaPop Collection in the near future.

The PRI Data Archive has acquired the RAND HRS Version F Dataset. This dataset is “a cleaned and easy-to-use version of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) with derived variables covering a broad range of measures and named consistently across waves. The file was developed by the RAND Center for the Study of Aging with funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and Social Security Administration (SSA).

As of 2006, nine HRS waves are available for study. The RAND HRS Data file (Version F) is based on 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002 final releases, and the 2004 early release of HRS data. The complete HRS includes five entry cohorts, as does the RAND file. The file incorporates only the core interviews. It does not include exit interview or any restricted data. Besides incorporating the 2004 early release, this version corrects known problems and adds a few new variables, including 2nd home value from 1998 forward.”
See the RAND Contributions Web Page for more information.

The data and documentation files are accessible in the PRI PopNet UNIX and SodaPop collections. Users must register with HRS prior to obtaining access to these files (if you have registered before to use any HRS public-use data, you do not need to register again).