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Documentation related to ELSA
- Full Reports
- Participant Newsletter
- User Guides
- Other Documentation
- Complete Publication Lists
- ELSA Overview
UKDS Documentation
- Waves 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 ELSA Nurse Data User Guide
- UK Data Archive Data Dictionaries
- Wave 0 ELSA/HSE User Guide
- Derived Variables User Guides
- Wave 2 Salivary Cortisol Data Description
- Technical Report
- Waves 1-9 ELSA Interviewer Data User Guide
- Waves 2-6 End of Life User Guide
- Wave 3 Life History Documentation
Link - Life history interview
- Waves 2-5 Pension Wealth User Guide
- Waves 0-5 Index File User Guide
- Waves 1-7 Harmonised ELSA Data User Guide Version E
- ELSA Genetic Data Access Procedures - Not to be uploaded yet
Link
- UK Data Archive Citation File for Study 5050 - Not to be uploaded yet
Link
Report Launch Documentation
- Wave 8 Launch
- User Day Documents - Videos are uploaded to UCL Mediacentral
Welcome and overview of ELSA
,Access to ELSA data and other restricted variables
Weighting issues
Financial derived variables
Gateway to Global Aging Data
Life history data
Interview documentation
Main Interview Documentation
- Instructions for main interview - REMOVED
Wave 1
Wave 2
Wave 3
Wave 4
Wave 5
Wave 6
Wave 7
Wave 8- Main Questionnaire
- Main self-completion Questionnaire
- Self-completion health vignettes
- Self-completion work vignettes
- Self-completion male sexual activity
- Self-completion female sexual activity
- Survey information leaflet
- Main showcards - REMOVED
Wave 1
Wave 2
Wave 3
Wave 4
Wave 5
Wave 6
Wave 7
Wave 8- Timed walk record card - REMOVED
Wave 1
Wave 2
Wave 3
Wave 4
Wave 5
Wave 6
Wave 7
Wave 8- Cognitive function booklet
- Advance letter
Consent forms
- Data flow for linkage
- NHSCR consent form
- HES and DWP consent form
*Note that prior to Wave 9, these consent forms were combined.
- Primary health care data consent form
- Consent withdrawal form (HES & NI)
*Note that prior to Wave 9, these consent withdrawal forms were combined.- Consent withdrawal form primary health care data
- Mental Capacity Act form
- Wave 10 & 11 consent showcards
- Cancer and Mortality
End of Life Interview
Nurse Visit Documentation
- Nurse questionnaire
- Preparatory nurse visit card - REMOVED
- Ryff self-completion questionnaire
- Instructions for nurses - REMOVED
- Nurse visit information leaflet - REMOVED
- Nurse visit consent booklet
- DNA blood sample leaflet
- Leg raise and balance card - REMOVED
- Chair rise and grip card - REMOVED
Wave 2
Wave 4
Wave 6- Grip strength record card - REMOVED
Wave 2
Wave 4- Frankfort Plane card - REMOVED
Wave 2
Wave 4
Wave 6- Measurement record card - REMOVED
Wave 2
Wave 4
Wave 6
Wave 8- Saliva logbook - REMOVED
Wave 2
Wave 4- Hair sample card - REMOVED
Wave 6
- Drug codebook
- Blood sample leaflet
- Wave 11 Health Visit
Life History Interview
- Life history advance letter
- Life history appointment card
- Life history self-completion
- Life history key card
- Life history showcards
- Life history instructions
- Life history user guide including CAPI information
