Harmonized CHARLS

Harmonized China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (Harmonized CHARLS) is an easy-to-use version of data from the first wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) with a set of harmonized variables suitable for cross-country analysis. Using the RAND HRS as a model, Harmonized CHARLS defines variables as identically as possible with the RAND HRS to allow users to compare variables with all other Harmonized data sets. Documentation for each variable in Harmonized CHARLS, including a description of its creation, the CHARLS variables used, and descriptive statistics, is detailed in the Harmonized CHARLS codebook.

name	description
Section A: Demographics, Identifiers, and Weights	Section A: Demographics, Identifiers, and Weights of CHARLS
Section B: Health	Section B: Health of CHARLS
Section C: Health Care Utilization and Insurance	Section C: Health Care Utilization and Insurance of CHARLS
Section D: Cognition	Section D: Cognition of CHARLS
Section E: Financial and Housing Wealth	Section E: Financial and Housing Wealth of CHARLS
Section F: Income and Consumption	Section F: Income and Consumption of CHARLS
Section G: Family Structure	Section G: Family Structure of CHARLS
Section H: Employment History	Section H: Employment History of CHARLS
Section I: Retirement Plans, Expectations	Section I: Retirement Plans, Expectations of CHARLS
Section J: Pension	Section J: Pension of CHARLS