COVID-19

This file is an input data file needed to run the Future Elderly Model (FEM), a microsimulation developed and maintained by the Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation within the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. Specifically, it is provided to replicate analyses in publication: Reif J, Heun-Johnson H, Tysinger B, Lakdawalla D. Measuring the COVID-19 mortality burden in the United States: A microsimulation study. Ann Intern Med. 21 September 2021. [Epub ahead of print].

The 2021 Perspectives on the Pandemic mail-in survey was designed to assess the experiences of Health and Retirement (HRS) respondents during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Two versions of the questionnaire were fielded; the first in Spring 2021 and the second in Fall 2021. Originally these two data collections were issued for public use in separate releases.

The 2020 HRS COVID-19 module is no longer available as a stand-alone data product, but is included in the 2020 HRS Core data release.