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Panel Survey and Study on Health, Aging, and Retirement in Thailand

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The Health, Aging, and Retirement in Thailand (HART) project is a sister study of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) at the Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan (National Institute on Aging 2007) (See “Health and Retirement Study”). Since 2009, HART has been conducted through the collaborative efforts of researchers and faculty members from the Research Center, School of Applied Statistics, School of Development Economics, and School of Social Development, under the Center for Aging Society Research (CASR), National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA). There were two pilot HART surveys in 2009 and 2011 with research grants from the National Research Commission of Thailand (NRCT) and the Commission of the Higher Education (CHE), respectively. The baseline (Wave 1) national HART project began in 2014 and Wave 2 began in 2016. Both projects were supported by research grants from NRCT. The data collected from the national surveys in 2015...

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Anantanasuwong, D., Theerawanviwat, D., Siripanich, P. (2019). Panel Survey and Study on Health, Aging, and Retirement in Thailand. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_982-1

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