Fieldwork Monitoring in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

This project documents how monitoring of fieldwork is done during the main data collections of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) by using the conceptual framework of total survey error as a guiding principle. Constant revisons are made to the technological background of monitoring and to managing fieldwork as software and governance keeps changing in SHARE. Findings on selected indicators are presented in each SHARE wave through fortnightly reports to contracted survey agencies during the entire data collection period. In addition, data quality control checks are being done by both the Survey Agencies and SHARE Coordination.