RAND  HRS Data File, Supported by NIA and SSA (v.I)

The RAND HRS Data file is a cleaned and easy-to-use version of data from ten waves of the Health and Retirement Study data, including five entry cohorts: the original 1992 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) cohort; the 1993 Study of Assets and Health Dynamics (AHEAD) cohort; the Children of Depression and War Baby cohorts entering in 1998; and Early Baby Boomer cohort entering in 2004. Derived variables covering a broad though not complete range of measures have been constructed and named consistently across waves. It incorporates data from 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006 final releases of HRS data.

This file was developed by the  RAND  Center for the Study of Aging. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) and Social Security Administration (SSA) provided funding for the file's development. SSA's Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics provided important research direction in the data file's design.