Analyzing Birth Cohorts With the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In this article, we seek to provide assistance to those who might want to use data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) Rounds 1-3 to compare those born in different cohorts. We outline 2 theoretical models that underlie the design of NSHAP-the life course model and the birth cohorts model-and review examples of social and political changes that may have differentially affected cohorts of older adults. Then we present 2 ways that NSHAP data might be used to compare cohorts, show examples of analyses of cohort differences in measures in NSHAP, and discuss features of the data that might affect their use for this purpose.

Methods

Round 3 of the NSHAP added a group of respondents born between 1948 and 1965, the Baby Boom. Together with dat

SUBMITTER: Waite LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8678436 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature