Projects

There are six major surveys associated with CDHA. CDHA also provides pilot grant support for new faculty development and for faculty, staff, and research assistants engaged in innovative pilot projects that are likely to lead to major NIA support. Our affiliates' research projects on health and aging can be search in a project database.

CDHA Major Surveys

Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)
National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)
(This zip file contains NSFH wave 1 data in raw ASCII format and SAS statement file. It was created from BADGIR server.)
Health, Wellbeing and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean (SABE)
Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS)
Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions (PREHCO)
Wisconsin Assets and Income Studies (WAIS)

Pilot Projects:

CDHA provides support for innovative pilot projects to affiliates.

2012-2013 (Link to Pilot Project Abstract)

Is There an Hormonal Component to Sexual Functioning in Later Life?
PI: John DeLamater, Conway-Bascom Professor, Sociology

Proximity to Kin in Old Age and Ill Health
PI: Felix Elwert, Associate Professor, Sociology

Veteran Status and Later-Life Health: Evidence from Sibling Fixed-Effects Models
PI: Pamela Herd, Associate Professor, Sociology

Trends and Determinants of Mortality Disparities between the U.S. and Other High-Income Countries: 1980-2010
PI: Alberto Palloni, Samuel Preston Professor, Sociology

Pilot Projects from previous years: 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012

Please send questions, comments or suggestions to cdhadata@ssc.wisc.edu.
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