The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) is a longitudinal survey being conducted by the China Center for Economic Research of Peking University. Professor Yaohui Zhao is serving as Principal Investigator and Professors John Strauss of the University of Southern California and Albert Park of Oxford University are serving as co-Principal Investigators. CHARLS is funded partially by the BSR unit in the National Institute on Aging, the World Bank and Natural Science Foundation of China. The baseline of the CHARLS pilot took place in two provinces in the summer and fall of 2008 and the next wave will take place in 212 counties inclusive of the pilot individuals in 2011. All data stripped of private identifying information will be available for research use at no charge. The pilot data of 2008 has been released to the research community since April 30, 2009.
CHARLS is part of a set of longitudinal aging surveys that include surveys in the United State, England, nineteen countries in continental Europe, Korea, Japan, and India. CHARLS will collect a representative sample of Chinese 45 and older to enable multidisciplinary studies on issues related to population aging. China is one of the fastest aging countries in the world and accounts for a large fraction of the growth in the world's old. By 2030, China’s elderly (65 and older) population share is expected to reach 16%.
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