Aging Facts & Figures

Data & Data Sets

North Carolina Data

• County Profiles (from NC DAAS)
• Data Set Inventory (from NC DAAS)
• Log Into North Carolina (LINC)
• NC Division of Aging, Demographic Information
• NC Office of State Planning, State Demographics Unit
• NC State Center for Health Statistics
• Selected Sources for North Carolina Socioeconomic Data and News (list from UNC Libraries)
• note: North Carolina data is also available from many of the national sites as well, especially the Census Bureau

National (U.S.) Data

• AoA Aging Statistics (and data)
• Census Bureau
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS)
  • Data Compendium
  • New! Part D Claims Data
• Data.gov
• Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
• Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD)
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
• Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) (UNCCH users only)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• US Administration on Aging, Statistics on the Aging Population
• Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)

International Data

• English Longitudinal Study of Aging
• Human Mortality Database
• International Data Base (IDB)
• UNData

Data Archives/Directories

• Data Sources for Research in Aging
• National archive of computerized data on aging (NACDA)
• Odum Institute for Research in Social Science Louis Harris Data Archive
• Publicly available databases for aging-related secondary analyses in the behavioral and social sciences