Documentation Products

Data Descriptions

Information on how to use public release datasets, including details on content, data manipulation techniques, cross-wave merging and other items of interest.

Questionnaires

Representations of interviews in "box-and-arrow" format.

Concordance

The question concordance is a tool for cross-referencing survey questions by content across time for all biennial interview years. Each record in a retrieval set contains a link to the appropriate codebook section, allowing the user to see data element details (jump instructions, variable description, question text, user notes, and codeframe). For years 1995 and beyond, cross-reference information is available for core interview variables that are appear in multiple waves.

Codebooks

Links to online HTML codebooks for biennial and off-year data products.

Module Descriptions

Details on the contents of experimental modules for each interviewing year.

Imputations

Information on imputation products currently available to the public.

Weights

HRS weighting methodology.

Data Alerts

Data release errors, omissions, notes, and corrections.

User Guides

These documents provide additional documentation about the concepts, measures and questions in the HRS surveys. They expand upon the information found in codebooks, questionnaires and data descriptions.(PDF format)