Data release

Every number on this site is taken from, or computed from, one versioned release. Nothing is typed into the pages.

The data release is not offered for download on this site. Researchers can ask the project team for access.

This release

The release holds published-literature curves, NHANES-derived curves and distributions, and group-level cohort summaries with small cells suppressed. It holds no person-level data from any cohort.

Data sources and acknowledgements

• NHANES: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and linked mortality files, National Center for Health Statistics, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• HRS: the Health and Retirement Study is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (grant U01AG009740) and conducted by the University of Michigan.
• ELSA: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing was developed by researchers at University College London, NatCen Social Research, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the University of Manchester and the University of East Anglia. Data collected by NatCen Social Research, funded by the National Institute on Aging (R01AG017644) and UK government departments coordinated by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and supplied by the UK Data Service.
• MIDUS: supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network and the National Institute on Aging (P01-AG020166, U19-AG051426).
• Wearable studies: WESAD (Schmidt et al., ICMI 2018) and datasets from PhysioNet (Goldberger et al., Circulation 2000).

The original collectors and funders bear no responsibility for the analyses or interpretations here.