The Life History Mail Survey 2017 Fall (LHMS 2017 Fall) contains questions about residential, education, employment and health history, and other important childhood and family events. The LHMS is part of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which is funded under a cooperative agreement between the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.
The field period for the 2017 Fall LHMS was December 2017 through June 2018.
The 2017 LHMS Fall data file contains 559 variables and data for 1,445 respondents. The response rate is 28% percent.
The 2017 LHMS Fall-Supplement data file contains 257 variables and data for 5,215 respondents. The response rate is 83% percent.
Product Details
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Jun 2023
(Final V2.0)
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| N | 1,445 (2017 Fall); 5,215 (2017 Fall-Supplement) |
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Health and Retirement Study (2023). 2017 Fall Life History Mail Survey (Final V2.0) [Data set]. Produced and distributed by the University of Michigan with funding from the National Institute on Aging (grant number NIA U01AG009740). https://doi.org/10.7826/ZHPZ4764 |
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