Table 3.

DEAS data 1996–2014

Topics	Examples
(Socio-) Demographics	Age, gender, household composition, parents, siblings, education, marital status, citizenship
Employment	Employment status, job details (ISCO, working hours, job quality), retirement
Activities	Leisure activities, voluntary work, religion
Family and social network	Numbers and demographics for children and grandchildren, quality of intergenerational relationships, intimate partner, kin relations, social network
Support	Provision and reception of informal (emotional, cognitive, financial and practical) help and care
Health	List of illnesses, visits to the doctor, subjective health, pain, sleep, functional health, health-related behaviour (smoking, physical activity, health care, medication)
Subjective well-being	Life satisfaction, emotional well-being, depressive symptoms, loneliness
Psychological resources	Self-efficacy, coping strategies
Housing	Characteristics of private household (owner/tenant, size, costs), characteristics related to retirement home, residential environment (infrastructure, shopping facilities, services for seniors)
Finances	Income (sources, amount, personal and household income), assets, debts
Attitudes, norms, values, stereotypes	Positive and negative self-perceptions of ageing, religiosity, political orientation, attitudes toward social security
Objective measurements (tests)	Digit-symbol test (since 2002)
	Lung function test (since 2008)
Context data	Structural data at district level (NUTS-3) (e.g., unemployment rate, average household income, population density). Structural data for place of residence (e.g., availability of doctors, public transport). Interviewers’ rating to describe respondent’s home and neighbourhood

NUTS, nomenclature of territorial units for statistics.