Cross-sectional estimates of population health from the survey of health and retirement in Europe (SHARE) are biased due to health-related sample attrition.

ABSTRACT: Cross-sectional data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) are a common source of information in comparative studies of population health in Europe. In the largest part, these data are based on longitudinal samples, which are subject to health-specific attrition. This implies that estimates of population health based on cross-sectional SHARE datasets are biased as the data are selected on the outcome variable of interest. We examine whether cross-sectional datasets are selected based on health status. We compare estimates of the prevalence of full health, healthy life years at age 50 (HLY), and rankings of 18 European countries by HLY based on the observed, cross-sectional SHARE wave 7 datasets and full samples. The full samples consist of SHARE observed and at

SUBMITTER: Muszynska-Spielauer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9700319 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature