Scales and Multi-Item Indicators in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

The purpose of this manual is to provide an informative overview of all scales and item groups that are included in the questionnaire of Wave 1 to Wave 6 of the Survey of Health, Age and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The manual covers literature based information on the definition and content of the respective scale or multi-item indicator and its operationalisation in SHARE. All scales and multi-item indicators are displayed in English according to the generic version of the SHARE questionnaire.