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Title: Tamil Nadu Aging Panel

Type Dataset Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Madeline McKelway, Frank Schilbach, Garima Sharma, Girija Vaidyanathan (2022): Tamil Nadu Aging Panel. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/SXEYFW

Authors: Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Madeline McKelway (Dartmouth College) ; Frank Schilbach (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Garima Sharma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Girija Vaidyanathan (Tamil Nadu State Government) ; Jack Cavanagh (J-PAL) ; Erin Grela (MIT) ;

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Summary

This repository contains data from the Tamil Nadu Aging Panel; specifically, it currently contains baseline data collected on a sample of 6,294 elderly persons aged 55+ in Tamil Nadu, India in January-June 2019. The data is a pre-merged combination of data from three sources: a household-level survey, an individual-level survey, and individual-level health measurements. The data detail demographic, socio-economic, and health characteristics. The survey instruments are included; for more information please see the readme. A report detailing the panel aims, the sampling strategy, and the survey results is included. This baseline data is the first wave of an ongoing panel, which will be conducted in three additional waves through 2026. The panel is being conducted in collaboration with the government of Tamil Nadu, specifically the Department of Economics and Statistics (for survey assistance) and the Directorate of Public Health (for health measurements).

More information

  • DOI: 10.7910/DVN/SXEYFW

Subjects

  • Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Social Sciences

Dates

  • Publication date: 2022
  • Submitted: April 14, 2022
  • Updated: May 18, 2022
  • Collected: February 01, 2019 to June 30, 2019

Notes

Datacite resource type: Sample survey data

Rights

Much of the data past this point we don't have good examples of yet. Please share in #rdi slack if you have good examples for anything that appears below. Thanks!

Alternatetitles

  • Subtitle: Baseline Data

Format

electronic resource