Demographic Data on Aging

NIA Centers on the Demography of Aging

• NIA Demography Centers

Federal Web Sites

• U.S. Census Bureau
  Access to a variety of data on aging and the older population, including statistics on population and housing, the economy, and the experimental TIGER digital mapping system.
      
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  Reports and other publications from the CDC, including survey descriptions and analyses.
   
  • National Center for Health Statistics
    The Federal government's principal vital and health statistics agency.
     
  • Aging Activities
    Access to the Trends in Health and Aging database, the Longitudinal Studies of Aging surveys, and other resources.
     
  • Health, United States, 1999 With Health and Aging Chartbook
    Report focusing on the health of older Americans.
     
• Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
  The Forum encourages collaboration among Federal agencies to improve the quality and usefulness of data on the aging population.

Selected Publicly Archived Data Sets

• Health and Retirement Study and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old
  Nationally representative longitudinal data collections that examine retirement and the aging of society.
   
• National Long-Term Care Survey
  A nationally representative, 12-year longitudinal survey designed to study changes in the health and functional status of Americans 65 and older.
   
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics
  A nationally representative, longitudinal survey that examines the attitudes and behaviors of families and individuals within an economic context.
   
• Berkeley Mortality Database
  A large, detailed collection of mortality data for national populations.

• U.S. Census Data
  Two related files from the 1990 Public Use Microdata Sample are available by request.
   
• Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
  A long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957.
   
• German Socio-Economic Panel
  A longitudinal microdatabase containing socioeconomic information on private households in the newly united Federal Republic of Germany.
   
• Luxembourg Income Study
  Comparable socioeconomic data collected in household surveys for more than 25 countries.