Center for Demography of Health and Aging

Aging Veterans of the Union Army Studies (Raw Data)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/search-basic.htm
(Search for study numbers 6837, 2877, 6836 and 9425)

Americans' Changing Lives: Waves I and II, 1986 and 1989 (Raw Data)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/search-basic.html
(Search for study numbers 9267 and 6438)

Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD)
Raw Data:
http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww/
Extractors:
HRS/AHEAD Dynamic Concordance
http://hrsweb.isr.umich.edu/concord/index.html

The Berkeley Mortality Database--University of California-Berkeley and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Human Mortality Database (Raw Data)
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/wilmoth/mortality/
http://www.mortality.org/

Census Bureau Age Data (Raw Data)
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/age.html

American Factfinder--Census 2000 and 1990 Lookup (Extractor)
http://factfinder.census.gov/

1990 Census Subject Summary Tape Files--University of California, Berkeley Social Science and Government Data Archive (CD-ROM Extractor)
ftp://goldrush.berkeley.edu:4021/pub/SSTF/index.html

Current Population Survey Data
Raw Data:
National Bureau of Economic Research: http://www.nber.org/cps/
NACDA: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html (Search for "Current Population Survey" as a phrase in the title)
FERRET: http://www.bls.census.gov/ferretftp.htm
Extractors:
FERRET: http://ferret.bls.census.gov:80/
DES: http://www.census.gov/DES/www/welcome.html
UNICON: http://www.unicon.com/cpsonweb.html

The Dynamics of Population Aging in ECE Countries (Raw Data)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/SERIES/dpa.html

Framingham Heart Study (Raw Data)
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/framingham/index.html

General Social Survey (GSS)--National Opinion Research Center (NORC)--University of Chicago
Purchase Raw Data:
Roper Center: http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/gss.html
Raw Data:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/search-basic.html
Search "General Social Survey Series", as a phrase, in title.
Extractors:
University of Michigan--ICPSR http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS
Queens College http://www.soc.qc.edu/QC_Software/extract.html
University of California-San Diego http://gort.ucsd.edu/gss/
University of California-Berkeley http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/cgi-bin11/hsda?harcsda.5+gss96

Health Care Financing Administration Public Use Files (Raw Data)
http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/pufiles.htm

Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
Raw Data:
http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww/
Extractors:
HRS/AHEAD Dynamic Concordance
http://hrsweb.isr.umich.edu/concord/index.html

ICD9 and 10 Finder (Extractor)
WONDER: http://wonder.cdc.gov/
(Click on "Anonymous User", then "Summary", then "Codes and Classifications".)

International Data Base (IDB)--Census Bureau (Extractor)
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html

International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)--Central Archive for Empirical Social Research (Germany)
Purchase Raw Data:
http://www.gesis.org/en/data_service/issp/index.htm

Luxembourg Income and Employment Studies (LIS and LES)--Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and Center for Population, Poverty and Policy Studies (CEPS)
http://www.lisproject.org/

US Mortality Data
Raw Data:
NACDA: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html#02
(Under "Physical health and functioning of older adults", Mortality Detail and Multiple Cause of Death)
NCHS: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm
Extractors:
WONDER: http://wonder.cdc.gov/
FERRET: http://ferret.bls.census.gov:80/

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Public Use Files --Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Raw Data)
http://www.meps.ahcpr.gov/

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
National Health Interview Survey
National Home and Hospice Care Survey
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
National Vital Statistics System
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm
National Hospital Discharge Survey
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/nhds.htm
National Nursing Home Survey
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nnhsd/nnhsd.htm
National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/nsascol.htm
All except the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery can also be found at NACDA.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html
Search on Title.

For NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Studies, LSOA I and II, see below.
(All Raw Data)

National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS), 1995-1996 (#2760)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html
Search Title on MIDUS.

National Death Index--Centers for Disease Control (Extractor)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/ndi/ndi.htm

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I: Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, 1982-1984 (#8900) (Raw Data)
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I: Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, 1986 (#9466) (Raw Data)
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I: Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, 1987 (#9854) (Raw Data)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html
(Search on study number).

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I: Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, 1992 is available by searching the main ICPSR archive for Study #6861. (Raw Data)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/search-basic.html
(Search on study number)

National Health Interview Survey: Longitudinal Study of Aging, 70 Years and Over, 1984-1990 (#8719)
Raw Data:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html
(Search on study number)
Extractor:
NACDA DAS: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/das.html

NHIS 1994 Second Supplement on Aging (#2563)
Raw Data:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html
Search on Study #
Extractor:
NACDA DAS: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/das.html

The National Longitudinal Mortality Study (Raw Data)
See Below under NHLBI

National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)--Bureau of Labor Statistics
Download or purchase raw data and documentation
http://www.chrr.ohio-state.edu/nls-info/ordering/display_db.php3

National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS)--Duke University (Raw Data)
http://www.cds.duke.edu/
Extractor (via Unicon)
http://www.unicon.com/

National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)--University of Wisconsin-Madison (Raw Data)
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/

New Beneficiaries Data System--Social Security Administration (Raw Data)
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/research/nbds.html

Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
Raw Data:
http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid/
Extractor:
PSID Subsetting System
http://stat0.isr.umich.edu/psid/data-center/data-center.html

PUMS
Raw Data:
NACDA: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html
(Search on 6219 in the study number)
Census Data from Michigan: http://micda.psc.isr.umich.edu/data.html
(Scroll to "Census Data Available from PSC's Data Archive" and note the contact person for the files)
Extractors:
IPUMS: http://www.ipums.umn.edu/
DES: http://www.census.gov/DES/www/welcome.html

RAND Aging Studies in the Developing World (Rand Family Life Surveys) (Raw Data)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/SERIES/rand.html

Rand Corporation Contextual Data Library (Raw Data)
http://www.rand.org/centers/aging/dataprod/cdl/index.html

Social Security Death Index (Raw Data)
http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/deathfile.htm

Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program 1973-1999
Raw Data:
Public-Use CD-ROM--National Cancer Institute
http://seer.cancer.gov/publicdata/
Extractors:
CANQUES: http://srab.cancer.gov/prevalence/canques.html
WONDER: http://wonder.cdc.gov/

Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
Raw Data:
NACDA: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html
(Search for "SIPP")
FERRET: http://www.bls.census.gov/ferretftp.htm
Extractors:
FERRET: http://ferret.bls.census.gov:80/
DES: http://www.census.gov/DES/www/welcome.html

Trends in Health and Aging --National Center for Health Statistics (Extractor)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/aging/trenddata.htm

WHO Mortality Database (raw data):
http://www3.who.int/whosis/whsa/ftp/download.htm
1997-1999 World Health Statistics Annual (extractor):
http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm?path=whosis,whsa&language=english

The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)--University of Wisconsin Data and Program Library Service
Raw Data:
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/wls/index.html
Extractor:
WLSGV: http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/WLS/program.htm

WISQARS: Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (Centers for Disease Control) (Extractor)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/

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Questions, comments, additions, please contact:
Jack Solock
Data Librarian--Center for Demography and Ecology and Center for Demography of Health and Aging
University of Wisconsin-Madison
jsolock@ssc.wisc.edu