Overview
Healthy Ageing in Scotland (HAGIS), a study of people aged 50+ in Scotland, collects data on social circumstances, income, employment, retirement, economics, health and cognition. The survey questions are harmonized with other HRS family studies such as ELSA (England), TILDA (Eire), NICOLA (Northern Ireland), the HRS (US) and SHARE (mainland Europe). HAGIS is the first among these HRS family of longitudinal studies of aging that has drawn its sampling frame based on administrative health records.
Data Collection
The HAGIS pilot study collected its pilot wave data in October 2016 and finished on May 2017. The target population for the HAGIS pilot was individuals residing in private households on mainland Scotland aged 50+. The pilot main questionnaire was administered as a part of household interview. All participants who responded to the main interview were asked to complete a self-completion questionnaire. In the pilot wave, 1,057 main interviews were completed and 67% of respondents completed a self-completion questionnaire. 88% of all respondents agreed to link their survey to at least one source of administrative data. The data from HAGIS are made available to other researchers by the UK Data Service and the Gateway to Global Aging.