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This project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), coordinates all activities involved in the context of generating, processing, and administering baseline and refreshment gross sample data. This is particularly important in a study like SHARE, which is conducted in many countries and is thus facing different legal and administrative backgrounds.

In order to ensure participating countries to adhere to SHARE’s standards and to maintain an overview of differing national sampling procedures, the project develops, revises, and distributes sampling design forms to all countries with baseline or refreshment samples. Technical assistance is provided to country teams throughout the process of generating proper gross samples. This includes the development and provision of a template file to be filled by country teams; the countries’ input is then further processed for various purposes.

The significance for SHARE’s central coordination to receive proper gross samples on files is manifold: Firstly, they are needed for the preparation of baseline/refreshment sample preload files for the computer assisted interview. Secondly, without well-defined gross samples no meaningful computation of measures of fieldwork performance is possible. Thirdly, sampling information is needed to compute design and calibrated weights.

Contact Person(s)
Bergmann-2

Dr. Michael Bergmann

Financing

BMBF

Presentations and Contributions
18.01.2013
Dr. Thorsten Kneip
Survey participation in wave four
26.09.2017
Dr. Annette Scherpenzeel
Samples in main survey (cleaning, response and refreshment)
16.04.2012
Dr. Frederic Malter
Wave 5 Refreshment Sampling
14.05.2014
Dipl.-Vw. Morten Schuth
Baseline/refreshment sampling main survey
11.09.2015
Dr. Annette Scherpenzeel
Sampling for wave 7
15.02.2016
Dr. Michael Bergmann, Dr. Annette Scherpenzeel
Sampling in SHARE
08.02.2018
Dr. Michael Bergmann
Sampling of Wave 8
Publications

Bergmann, Michael; Kneip, Thorsten; de Luca, Giuseppe; Scherpenzeel, Annette (2019): Survey participation in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Wave 1-7, SHARE Working Paper Series 41-2019, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA).

Bethmann, Arne; Bergmann, Michael; Scherpenzeel, Annette (2019): SHARE Sampling Guide – Wave 8 - Version 8.0.1, SHARE Working Paper Series 33-2019, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA).

Bergmann, Michael; Kneip, Thorsten; de Luca, Giuseppe; Scherpenzeel, Annette (2017): Survey participation in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Wave 1-6, SHARE Working Paper Series 31-2017, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA).

Malter, Frederic; Schuller, Karin; Börsch-Supan, Axel (2016): "SHARE Compliance Profiles – Wave 6".

de Luca, Giuseppe; Rossetti, Claudio; Malter, Frederic (2015): "Sample Design and Weighting Strategies in SHARE Wave 5", In: Börsch-Supan, Axel (ed.), SHARE Wave 5: Innovations & Methodology, MEA, Munich, pp. 75 - 84.