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Aging Facts & Figures

Quick Facts

• Quick facts about aging in NC

Slides, Charts & More

• Digital Carousel
• A Fact Sheet about Older Drivers in North Carolina and South Carolina
• Gender, race, and class : enduring inequalities in later life : a North Carolina perspective (fact sheet)
• Global Aging Quiz (only available for UNC-CH users)

Data Sets

North Carolina Data

• 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 (list from UNC Libraries)
• note: North Carolina data is also available from many of the national sites as well, especially the Census Bureau

Other States

• New Jersey: ORANJ BOWL

National (U.S.) Data

• Census Bureau
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS)
  • Data Compendium
  • New! Part D Claims Data
• Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD)
• Health Data for All Ages
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
• Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) (UNCCH users only)
• Trends in Health & Aging
• 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