SHARE-Israel is the
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i component of the
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks. In seven survey waves to date, SHARE has conduc ...
, a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status as well as social and family networks of individuals aged 50 or over.
About SHARE-Israel
Israel joined the SHARE framework in 2004, being the first country in the Middle East to initiate a systematic study of its aging population. SHARE-Israel encompasses two waves of data collected thus far. All SHARE data, including the Israeli component, is available to the entire research community free of charge, and can be obtained through the SHARE websit
or the
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), located within ICPSR, is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). NACDA's mission is to advance research on aging by helping researchers to profit from the under-exploited potent ...
.
SHARE-Israel is coordinated by the Israel Gerontological Data Center (IGD
at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Israel Gerontological Data Center was established with funds from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and is supported by the Ministry for Senior Citizens. SHARE-Israel is directed by Prof.
Howard Litwin
Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...
, with assistance from a multidisciplinary team of expert consultants from the United States, Europe and Israel.
The instrument
The survey instrument addresses demographic details, physical health, grip strength, walking speed, behavioral risks, cognitive function, mental health, health care, employment and pensions, children, social support, financial transfers, housing, household income, consumption, assets and future expectations. In addition, the Israeli questionnaire includes two domains not yet addressed in SHARE:
[ Litwin, H., Sapir, E.V. (2008)]
The SHARE-Israel Methodology
Social Security - Journal of Welfare and Social Security Studies, 76, 25-41. n Hebrew
* ''Measure of life-long trauma''. Respondents were asked to indicate difficult life events that they experienced and the degree to which they were affected by them. Respondents also reported their personal experiences during the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
.
* ''Examination of reactions to pension reform''. This section addresses awareness of forthcoming delays in the age of eligibility for retirement pension in Israel, and respondents` preparations towards it.
Data collection
In order to obtain a representative sample of Israelis aged 50 or over, Israel's population was divided into three sections:
* Jewish-Israelis who immigrated to Israel before 1989 or were born in Israel, and were interviewed in the
Hebrew language
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
*
Arab citizens of Israel, interviewed in the
Arabic language
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walte ...
* Immigrants of the
Russian immigration to Israel in the 1990s
The 1990s post-Soviet aliyah began en masse in the late 1980s when the government of Mikhail Gorbachev opened the borders of the USSR and allowed Jews to leave the country for Israel.
Between 1989 and 2006, about 1.6 million Soviet Jews and their ...
, interviewed in the
Russian language.
Wave 1
Executed in Israel in 2005-2006, the first wave encompassed 2,598 respondents residing in 1,771 households.
Wave 2
Executed in Israel in 2009-2010, the second wave encompassed 2,464 respondents.
Wave 3
Data has been collected during 2013, and the results will be published around March 2015.
Results
The Israel Gerontological Data Center holds an up-to-date list of all publications based on SHARE-Israel result
Funding
SHARE-Israel has been supported by:
* The
Bituah Leumi, National Insurance Institute of Israel
* The Ministry of Science and Technology
* The Ministry for Senior Citizens
* The 7th
of the European Union
* The US
National Institute on Aging
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), located in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIA itself is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
The NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the ...
* The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
References
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External links
SHARE-Israel projectIsrael Gerontological Data CenterA list of publications based on SHARE-IsraelSHARE Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in EuropeRuth Eglash, "Survey: Israeli men over 50 more depressed than Europeans" Jerusalem Post, Nov 13, 2007
COMPARE - Toolbox for Improving the Comparability of Cross-National Survey Data with Applications to SHARE
Social statistics data