Ohio Longitudinal Study on Aging and Retirement, 1975-1995 (doi:10.7910/DVN/XL2ZTO)

View:

Part 1: Document Description
Part 2: Study Description
Part 3: Data Files Description
Part 5: Other Study-Related Materials
Entire Codebook

Ohio Longitudinal Study on Aging and Retirement, 1975-1995

doi:10.7910/DVN/XL2ZTO

Harvard Dataverse

2007-11-28

1

Atchley, Robert C., 1996, "Ohio Longitudinal Study on Aging and Retirement, 1975-1995", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XL2ZTO, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:3:bLd9saCM+Ax5aOqVPkYG1A== [fileUNF]

Ohio Longitudinal Study on Aging and Retirement, 1975-1995

doi:10.7910/DVN/XL2ZTO

00139

Atchley, Robert C.

Harvard Dataverse

Murray Research Archive

1996

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XL2ZTO

Social Sciences

mra murraydata, over 1000, female, male, 50-59, 60-69, 70+, not compiled, mixed, 1, Family

The Ohio Longitudinal Study on Aging and Retirement was begun in 1975 to investigate certain aspects of the retirement process and their impact on the physical aging and the social adjustment of individuals. <br /><br /> In 1975, Miami University's Scripps Foundation Gerontology Center launched a study of all adults who were age 50 or over living in Oxford Township, Ohio. More than 1,500 individuals were mailed a 42-item, self-administered questionnaire, consisting mainly of precoded items. Over 1,100 individuals returned questionnaires, 1,106 of which were usable.<br /><br /> The questionnaire tapped issues of retirement, leisure activities, life satisfaction, as well as basic demographic information such as age, employment status and history, marital status, etc. <br /><br /> Follow-up questionnaires were mailed to participants in 1977, 1979, 1981, 1991, and 1995. Follow-up questionnaires were designed to assess changes in the respondents' lives and their subsequent effects. The 1977 and 1979 questionnaires essentially replicated the 1975 questionnaire. After the third wave, research objectives included factors involved in adjustment to retirement over time, adjustment to widowhood, intergenerational contact, and adjustment to physical limitations due to disability.<br /><br /> The Murray Research Archive holds numeric data files from the 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1991, and 1995 waves of data collection.

1970-2000

1975-1995

United States

individuals

longitudinal, survey

quota sample

questionnaire

Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University

Available

Submission of the following <a href= "http://www.murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study.

I will use these data solely for the purposes stated in my application to use data, detailed in a written research proposal. I will honor all agreements and conditions made between the Contributor of the Data and the study participants, and between the Contributor of the Data and the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Harvard University, as specified in the Memorandum of Agreement.

<a href="mailto:mra@help.hmdc.harvard.edu">Manager of Operations</a>, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

I will include a bibliographic citation acknowledging the use of these data in any publication or presentation in which these data are used. Such citations will appear in footnotes or in the reference section of any such manuscript. I understand the guideline in "How to Cite This Dataset" described in the Summary of this study.

Murray Research Archive will list my publication and manuscripts on the Archive website when I submit a bibliographic citation or title of the manuscript, and indicate the Henry A. Murray Research Archive data used. Doing this will also help Henry A. Murray Research Archive to provide funding agencies with essential information about use of archival resources, to fulfill requirements of some memoranda of agreement, and to promote the broader exchange of information about research activities.

<b>The original restrictions on the dataset have expired.</b><br /> <b>All applications for follow-up will require IRB approval from the applicant's home institution as well as approval from the Director of the Murray.</b>

<div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul style="list-style-type: decimal;" ><li> The Murray Archive (the Distributor) has granted me a revocable license to use this dataset solely for the purposes of conducting research, and the Distributor may terminate this license at any time and for any reason. </li> <li> I will use the dataset solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations, except when identification is authorized in writing by the Distributor. </li> <li>I will produce no links among the Distributor’s datasets or among the Distributor’s data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. </li> <li>I represent that neither I, nor anyone I know, has any prior knowledge of the possible identities of any study participants in any dataset that I am being licensed to use. </li> <li> I will not knowingly divulge any information that could be used to identify individual participants in the study, nor will I attempt to identify or contact any study participant, and I agree to use any precautions necessary to prevent such identification. </li> <li> I will make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. If I suspect that I might recognize or know a study participant, I will immediately inform the Distributor, and I will not use or retain a copy of data regarding that study participant. If these measures to resolve an identity disclosure are not sufficient, the Distributor may terminate my use of the dataset. </li> <li> I will not reproduce the dataset except as is necessary for my scholarly purposes. I will destroy the dataset upon the completion of my scholarly work with it. </li> <li> I will not share data from the dataset (in any form or by any means) with any third party, including other members of my research team, as I understand that all users of data must obtain the data directly from the Distributor. </li> <li> I will make appropriate acknowledgement of the contributor of the dataset as well as the Distributor in any manuscript or presentation (published or unpublished) using the citation standard documented here: <a href="http://thedata.org/citation"> http://thedata.org/citation</a> </li> <li> THE DISTRIBUTOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING OR RELATING TO THE DATASET. </li> </ul> </div>

Submission of the following <a href= "https://murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study. <br /><br /> <b>The original restrictions on the dataset have expired.</b><br /> <b>All applications for follow-up will require IRB approval from the applicant's home institution as well as approval from the Director of the Murray.</b>

• Number of cases: 1174

• No. of variables per record: 1565

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

UNF:3:bLd9saCM+Ax5aOqVPkYG1A==

Data for Study in Tab Delimited Format

Label:

00139Atchley-Longitudinal-Codebook.pdf

Text:

Description of coded data variables

application/pdf

Label:

00139Atchley-Longitudinal-CodebookAddendum.pdf

Text:

Clarifications of discrepancies in the data files

application/pdf

Label:

00139Atchley-Longitudinal-Data.por

Text:

Data for Study in SPSS Portable Numeric Format

application/x-spss-por

Label:

00139Atchley-Longitudinal-Measures.pdf

Text:

Collection of blank measures used in the study

application/pdf

Label:

00139Atchley-Longitudinal-MemoOfAgreement.pdf

Text:

Legal agreement between data depositor and Murray Archive

application/pdf

Label:

00139Atchley-Longitudinal-StudyDescription.pdf

Text:

Overview: abstract, research methodology, publications, and other info.

application/pdf