SHARE / SHARE-France

SHARE (Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) is a European research project looking at health,care, employment and retirement, socio-economic and financial situation, social and family relations, and living and housing conditions from the perspective of the dynamics of ageing.

SHARE is a longitudinal, multidisciplinary, face-to-face European survey of people aged 50 and over, which has been repeated every two years since 2004 in many European countries (28 in the last wave). In the first 8 waves, 140,000 people took part in the survey at least once (9,000 in France), giving a total of 480,000 individual interviews (30,000 in France).

Satellite surveys have also been deployed among the SHARE panel of respondents, to complement or replace the main survey: collection of life histories and living conditions during childhood (SHARELIFE), satellite surveys on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic or a survey on the maintenance of cognitive abilities beyond the age of 65 (SHARE-HCAP).

In France, the scientific and operational management of the SHARE project has been the responsibility of the LEDa-Legos team at the Université Paris Dauphine-PSL since 2012.

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The 10th wave fieldwork was completed in May, with a total of 3,222 interviews carried out. Two-thirds of these interviews were conducted with the longitudinal population and one-third with new respondents. The response rate was 59% among households who had already taken part in SHARE at least once in the past, and even 70% among those who had taken part in the 9th wave, which is in line with the panel's loyalty-building objective, in order to be able to track individual changes over time. Preparatory work for the forthcoming wave 11 has also begun, with a partial renovation of the questionnaire content.