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– ird, SHARE has a population-representative panel design, i.e., the same individuals, drawn as a probability sample from the entire population, are repeatedly being interviewed to understand their individual ageing processes and their responses to ongoing social and political changes.
SHARE started in 2004 in 11 countries. Since then, SHARE has collected data every
two years. Estonia joined SHARE in 2010. SHARE now covers – together with its sister surveys ELSA in England and TILDA in Ireland – all 28 Eu member States and establis- hed itself as a unique cross-national, transdisciplinary panel study. is progress, accom- panied by a very fast acceptance by the user community and an exponential increase in scienti c and policy-oriented publications, propelled SHARE into the set of “landmarks” among the large Eu research infrastructures. Estonia can be proud to be a member.
A key scienti c objective of SHARE – to serve as a collaborative base for excellent ageing researchers coming from various scienti c elds – has been successfully achieved: Fruitful transdisciplinary collaboration has been initiated and fostered in the unique research environment created by SHARE, and has altered our perception of ageing
in many ways. e success of SHARE’s concept and methodological approach can be measured along three dimensions: users and their publications, evidence-based policy actions, and technological impact for SmEs.
users anD publiCations
As measured by user uptake, published scienti c articles and policy reports, SHARE has by far surpassed expectations based on related ageing surveys in the uS and uK. At this moment, SHARE has more than 10,000 registered users from all over the world and from a broad range of organisations and disciplines. moreover, it has done so at an increasing rate re ecting the potential of the data growing with the number of available waves. SHARE is currently used in 79 countries. is also means that users from many other countries than Estonia do research on Estonian data and help shedding light on Estonian challenges. 55% of users are a liated to a university, 38% to non-university research institutes, and 5% to policy- and other institutions.
SHARE has led to a large number of fundamental and application-oriented research results. SHARE data have by now generated more than 2,600 publications. more than ve new publications based on SHARE data are published every week. e multidiscip- linary study of individual and population ageing has become a top scienti c eld in Europe, due, not the least, to the rich transdisciplinary data provided by SHARE.
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