The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA) Harmonized TILDA, 2016

Study number (SN): 0053-03

CITATION

TILDA. (2024). The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA) Harmonized TILDA, 2016. [dataset]. Version 1.2. Irish Social Science Data Archive. SN: 0053-03. www.ucd.ie/issda/data/tilda/harmonized

ABOUT THE STUDY

Harmonised TILDA is a internationally comparable version of the TILDA data developed in conjunction with Gateway to Global Aging Data (G2G). It is a single datafile which contains waves 1 and 2 of TILDA with variables formatted according the G2G data convention to enable cross-country analysis. The harmonised dataset is currently available in STATA, SPSS and SAS formats. Full metadata and codebooks are available through the G2G website.

MAIN TOPICS

Ageing
Cognitive processes
Economic conditions
Health
Health status
Income
Lifestyle and health
Mental health
Retirement
Social participation

DATA AND DOCUMENTATION: FILES’ DESCRIPTION

Data (available through ISSDA application process)

File name	File format/s	Contents of file
0053-03_TILDA_Harmonized_v1.2.sas7bdat	SAS	Harmonized data (Waves 1 & 2)
0053-03_TILDA_Harmonized_v1.2.sav	SPSS	Harmonized data (Waves 1 & 2)
0053-03_TILDA_Harmonized_v1.2.dta	Stata	Harmonized data (Waves 1 & 2)

Documentation (available through ISSDA application process)

File name

File format/s

(preferably PDF)

Contents of file

0053-03_TILDA_Harmonized_Documentation

PDF

Harmonized TILDA Documentation and Codebook

ACCESS INFORMATION

Accessing the data

To access the data, please complete a ISSDA Data Request Form for Research Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets, sign it, and send it to ISSDA by email.

For teaching purposes, please complete the ISSDA Data Request Form for Teaching Purposes - Pseudonymised Datasets, and follow the procedures, as above. Teaching requests are approved on a once-off module/workshop basis. Subsequent occurrences of the module/workshop require a new teaching request form.

Data will be disseminated on receipt of a fully completed, signed form. Incomplete or unsigned forms will be returned to the data requester for completion.

Acknowledgements

Any work based in whole or part on resources provided by the ISSDA, should acknowledge: “The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA) Harmonized TILDA, 2016" and also ISSDA, in the following way: “Accessed via the Irish Social Science Data Archive - www.ucd.ie/issda”.

Citation requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical citation