New NSOC and NHATS Data Released
We are pleased to announce that new data from the National Study of Caregiving (NSOC) have been released. This beta data release consists of a cross-sectional file of informal helpers identified in the round 7 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS). New in this round of NSOC, caregivers to NHATS respondents who died are interviewed about end of life caregiving.
We also are re-releasing the NSOC II (2015) file with three updates:
- recoding and replacing the race and ethnicity variables
- revisions to 3 derived variables related to children of NSOC respondents (any living children; number of living children; number of living children under age 18).
- revised weights based on removing a small number of ineligible cases from control totals
NSOC data are available under our sensitive data procedures; the application can be accessed at https://www.nhatsdata.org/Home/ResDataFiles. Documentation, including a user guide, annotated data collection instruments, and a crosswalk between the instruments and the codebook can be found at http://www.nhats.org.
Additional NSOC files, including a longitudinal file following all participants in the 2015 NSOC and a time diary file, will be released at a later date.
A final NHATS Round 7 file is also being released at this time and can be downloaded at https://www.nhatsdata.org.