LASA

Demographics and aging

In the table below, entries in the left column refer to the related documentation, while the values in the cells of columns LASA-B to LASA-I refer to the corresponding LASA-data files. Underlined entries are hyperlinks, hovering with your mouse over the underlined waves will show you the years in which the corresponding measurements took place.

More details about the LASA-waves, see LASA-introduction.

Note that some of the data are not yet available (in red).

LASA-wave	B	C	D	E	2B	F	G	H	3B	MB	I
Cohort 1
Cohort 2
Cohort 3
Migrant Cohort

General variables	B	C	D	E	2B	F	G	H	3B	MB	I
(Non-)response more detailed non-response	z002 002	z002 002	z002 002	z002 002	z002 002	z002 002	z002 002	z002 002	z002 002	- 002	z002 002
Age at interview**	z008	z008	z008	z008	z008	z008	z008	z008	z008	MB008	z008
Gender**¹	z004	-	-	-	z004	-	-	-	z004	MB004	-
Education**¹	z004	-	-	-	z004	-	-	-	z004	MB004	-
Ethnicity**¹	z004	-	-	-	z004	-	-	-	z004	MB004	-
Weighting factor**⁵	005	005	005	005	005	005	005	005	005	-	005

Mortality	B	C	D	E	2B	F	G	H	3B	MB	I
Mortality data	z990	z990	z990	z990	z990	z990	z990	z990	z990	-	z990

Geography	B	C	D	E	2B	F	G	H	3B	MB	I
Urbanization²	z095	z095	z095	z095	z095	z095	z095	z095	z095	MB095	z095

Living arrangements	B	C	D	E	2B	F	G	H	3B	MB	I
Household composition**	011	011	011	011	011	011	011	011	011	011	011
Housing characteristics²	014 - -	014 601 701	014 601 701	014 601 701	014 - -	014 601 701	014 601 701	014 601 701	014 - -	014 - -	014 601 701
Marital and partner status	z010 - -	z010 601 701	z010 601 701	z010 601 701	z010 - -	z010 601 701	z010 601 701	z010 601 701	z010 - -	MB010 - -	z010 601 701

Religion³	B	C	D	E	2B	F	G	H	3B	MB	I
Church affiliation	-	038	038	038	038	-	-	-	z038	z038	-
Church attendance	-	-	038	038	038	038	038	038	z038	z038	038

Socio-economic status	B	C	D	E	2B	F	G	H	3B	MB	I
- Occupation⁴	016	016	016	016	016	016	016	016	016	016	016
- Income - Income specification	017 217	017 -	017 -	017 -	017 -	017 -	017 -	017 -	017 -	017 -	017 -
- Income decline / evaluation	019	019	019	019	019	019	019	019	019	019	019
- Health insurance**	018	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

LASA-wave	B	C	D	E	2B	F	G	H	3B	MB	I

¹ Only determined at baseline measurements.

² See also Theme Social: Housing.

³ For Religiousness, see Theme Emotional.

⁴ For information on Work and Retirement, see Theme Work: Work and Retirement.

⁵ Weighting factor as a correction measure for stratification differences and selective attrition in the LASA sample compared to data gathered at Statistics Netherlands (CBS). More information will follow.

** Not yet documented