Data Sets

• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm
  
  
• Health Data for All Ages (HDAA)
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_data_for_all_ages.htm
  
  
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
  www.meps.ahcpr.gov/
  
  
• The Health and Retirement Study
  hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/
  
  
• Trends in Health and Aging
  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/agingact.htm
  
  
  Demographics
  
  Growing Older in America: 2007
  http://www.nia.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/ExtramuralPrograms/BehavioralAndSocialResearch/HRS.htm
  
  

• Age Data (Baby Boomer, Older (55+) Population, Elderly (65+) Population)
  www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/age.html#national
  

• Age: 2000
  www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-12.pdf
  

• Centenarians in the United States: 1990 (Issued July 1999)
  www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p23-199.pdf
  

• Demographic Trends in the 20th Century
  www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf
  
  Demography Is Not Destiny, Revisited (The Commonwealth Fund; 2005)
  http://www.commonwealthfund.org/usr_doc/789_friedland_demographynotdestinyII.pdf?section=4039
  

• Older Americans 2004: Key Indicators of Well-Being
  http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/main_site/default.aspx
  

• Population Change and Distribution (Issued April 2001)
  www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-2.pdf
  

• Profile of General Demographic Characteristics for the United States (2000)
  www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/tables/dp_us_2000.PDF
  

• Profile of Older Americans: 2004
  http://www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/profile/2004/2.asp
  

• 65+ In the United States: 2005
  http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p23-209.pdf
  

• The Older Foreign-Born Population in the United States: 2000
  www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p23-211.pdf
  

• The Older Population in the United States: March 2000
  www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/age/ppl-147.html
  

• We the People: Aging in the United States (2004)
  http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/censr-19.pdf

  
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