Table 2.
Description of the sources, country, name, year, coverage, and sample of adults 65 and older (Obs. and % sample) +.
| Country | Survey (Acronym and Year) | Coverage (by Age) |
65+ Observations (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | Encuesta Nacional sobre Calidad de Vida de Adultos Mayores (ENCAVIAM, 2012) | 60 years and older | 3291 (70.8%) |
| Brazil | Estudo Longitudinal da Saúde dos Idosos (ELSI, 2015/16) | 50 years and older | 3903 (41.5%) |
| Chile | Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN, 2017) | All ages | 31,667 (14.6%) |
| Colombia | Encuesta Nacional de Salud, Envejecimiento y Vejez (SABE, 2015) | 60 years and older | 17,134 (72.3%) |
| Mexico | Encuesta Nacional sobre Salud y Envejecimiento (ENASEM, 2018) | 50 years and older | 7909 (48.8%) |
| Uruguay | Encuesta Longitudinal de Protección Social (ELPS, 2015/16) | 16 years and older | 4042 (34.1%) |
+ Sampling method: ENCAVIAM: probabilistic, random, clustered, multi-stage. ELSI: stratified, random, multi-stage. CASEN: random, geographic stratification, multi-stage. SABE: probabilistic, clustered, stratified, multi-stage. ENASEM: probabilistic, random, clustered. ELPS: random, stratified by clusters, multi-stage. See links to methodological documents in Appendix A.