Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
Come visit us in the exhibit hall at booth stalls 418 to talk data. We also encourage you to check out these sessions that may be of interest to LCC and NDIRA members at the 2024 GSA Annual Meeting!
Are you on the GSA program and either an LCC member or an NDIRA member? Tell us about it by completing a brief form for either LCC members or NDIRA members.
Workshops
EdSHARe: New Prospective Cohort Data for Research on the Effects of Education on Late-life Cognition
Thursday, November 14; 8:00am-12:00pm PT
The High School and Beyond (HS&B) cohort and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS72) both began as nationally representative, longitudinal studies of education and have been repurposed as studies of aging, health, mortality, and cognition by reviving them at midlife and following sample members forward. The Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research (EdSHARe) project is conducting these two cohort studies.
This year, survey blood- and saliva-based biomarkers, and administrative data from the 2021-22 (age ~60) follow-up of the HS&B cohort—about 25,500 high school students first observed in 1980—will be released to research. Additionally, we will also field a new round of data collection from the ~14,500 members of NLS72 (aged ~70).
At the workshop, we will explain the design and contents of HSB and NLS72 and demonstrate the potential for innovative research in demography, epidemiology, neuropsychology, sociology, and other disciplines.
Studying Life Course Trajectories with Full Count IPUMS Census Data
Friday, November 15; 8:00am-12:00pm PT
IPUMS disseminates U.S. full count census enumerations for 1850-1950. These data cover almost 800 million individual records and have opened the possibility of automated record linkages across census years to construct millions of individual life histories and trace millions of families across generations. Longitudinally linked records are freely available via the IPUMS USA data access system (usa.ipums.org). This workshop will review full count IPUMS census data and discuss the challenges and opportunities census data linkage, then provide participants with guidance on accessing and analyzing these data via IPUMS, as well as time to discuss research ideas with data experts.
Sessions
Wednesday, November 13
Exhibit hall open 5:30pm-7:30pm PT
Thursday, November 14
Exhibit hall open 11:30am-3:30pm PT
Friday, November 15
Exhibit hall open 11:30am-3:30pm PT
Saturday, November 16
Symposium Session: Examining Life Course Trajectories with Linked Full Count IPUMS Census Data
8:00-9:30am PT
Session: Novel Approaches and Data Sources to Investigate Lifespan Associations From Early Exposures to Later Life Health
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Room 3B
- In the Palm of Our Hand: Human-led Administrative Data Linkage to Augment Longitudinal Aging Studies (Ashley Dorame et al.)
- Lifespan Socioeconomic Etatus and Mortality Using 1900-1940 Censuses: Findings from the Normative Aging Study (Victoria R. Marino et al.)
- Three Innovative Data Resources: EdSHARe, the Multigenerational Longitudinal Panel, and the 1940Census (John R. Warren)
Exhibit hall open 11:30am-3:30pm PT
Exhibit Hall
Stop by booth 418 to talk to the IPUMS and NDIRA teams about using population data for aging research any time the exhibit hall is open. We’ve set aside a couple of times for focused conversations on specific data resources
- Thursday, November 14, 1:00-2:00pm, National Health Interview Survey
- Friday, November 15, 2:30-3:30pm, Linking the Current Population Survey
- Saturday, November 16, 11:30am-12:30pm, Full Count Census Data
- Saturday, November 16, 1:00-2:00pm, Time Diary Data
- Saturday, November 16, 2:30-3:30pm, Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs)