576 Panel Data Methods
Table 12.1 Key datasets cited in the review
Acronym Full title, origin Format Homepage
AddHealth National Longitudinal
Study of Adolescent
Health, US
Panel survey http://www.cpc.unc.edu/
projects/addhealth/
AHEAD Assets and Health
Dynamics Among the
Oldest-Old, US
Panel survey http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/
BHPS British Household Panel
Survey, UK
Panel survey http://www.data-archive. ac.uk/
BRFSS Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System, US
Telephone
survey
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
CHNS China Health and
Nutrition Surveys
Panel survey http://www.cpc.unc.edu/
projects/china
ECHP European Community
Household Panel, EC-15
Panel survey http://forum.europa.eu.int/
Public/irc/dsis/echpanel/
home
ELSA English Longitudinal
Survey of Ageing
Panel survey http://www.ifs.org.uk/elsa/
GSCF Gansu Survey of Children
and Families, China
Longitudinal
multilevel
survey
http://china.pop.upenn.edu/
Gansu/intro.htm
GSOEP German Socioeconomic
Panel
Panel survey http://www.diw.de/english/sop/
HALS Health and Lifestyle
Survey, GB
Panel survey http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
HCSUS HIV Cost and Services
Utilization Study, US
Panel survey http://www.rand.org/health/
projects/hcsus/
HCUP Healthcare Cost and
Utilization Project, US
Administrative http://www.hcup-
us.ahrq.gov/overview.jsp
HES Hospital Episode Statistics,
England and Wales
Administrative http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/
Publicationsandstatistics/
Statistics/HospitalEpisode
Statistics/index.htm
HRS Health and Retirement
Survey, US
Panel survey http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/
HSE Health Survey for England,
Welsh Health Survey,
Scottish Health Survey
Repeated
cross-
sections
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
HSN Historical Sample of the
Netherlands
Longitudinal
sample from
census and
registers
http://www.iisg.nl/∼hsn/
LASA Longitudinal Aging Study
Amsterdam
Panel survey http://www.lasa-vu.nl
LSMS Living Standards
Measurement Study,
World Bank
Repeated
cross-
sections
http://www.worldbank.org/html/
prdph/lsms/lsmshome.html
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