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About SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a research infrastructure providing data to study the effects of health, social, economic and environmental policies over the life-course of European citizens and beyond. From 2004 until today, 616,000 in-depth interviews with 160,000 people aged 50 or older from 28 countries in Europe and beyond have been conducted. Thus, SHARE is the largest pan-European social science panel study that provides internationally comparable longitudinal micro data allowing insights in the fields of public health and socio-economic living conditions of European individuals. SHARE has global impact since it not only covers all EU member countries in a strictly harmonized way but additionally is embedded in a network of sister studies all over the world, from the Americas to Eastern Asia. SHARE has become a major pillar of the European Research Area. The project aims to enable researchers understand the impact of an ageing population on European societies, thereby assisting policymakers in making decisions regarding health, social and economic policies. It was selected as one of the projects to be implemented in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) in 2006 and given a new legal status as the first ever European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in March 2011. Since 2016 it is an ESFRI landmark. Until 2023, SHARE was coordinated at the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), a former division of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. Since 2023, SHARE has found a home in the newly founded SHARE BERLIN Institute (SBI), in Berlin, Germany, where it is centrally coordinated. Managing Director of SHARE-ERIC is Prof. Dr. David Richter.