Implementacija i metodološki okvir studije SHARE u Hrvatskoj

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multidisci¬plinary and cross-national panel database of microdata on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of about 140,000 individuals aged 50 or older. SHARE covers 27 European countries and Israel. It is a research infrastructure that the European Commission has positioned as one of the priority projects in the Euro¬pean Research Area and one of the most significant panel studies in social sciences. This paper aims to present the methodological profile of the SHARE study with a specific reference to the period since 2015 when Croatia joined it. It also examines the process of SHARE study implementation in Croatia with a detailed presentation of modules and questions from the questionnaires in the sixth and seventh waves. The specific purpose of this paper is to emphasise the content and research opportunities of the SHARE study for the Croatian scholarly community. This paper highlights the specific aspects of the eighth wave of SHARE in which face-to-face interviewing has been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, and a methodological turn has been made, i.e. face-to-face interviews have been replaced with a short CATI (telephone) survey called “SHARE Corona.”As a panel study, SHARE collects data in waves, every two years since 2004, sup¬ported by CAPI (computer-assisted personal interviewing). A SHARE interview is quite long, with an approximate duration of one hour. Same respondents are inter¬viewed in regular waves, but new respondents can be added to refresher samples. New respondents help to maintain the core sample and deal with sample attrition. However, SHARE invests significant efforts in recovering panel respondents who have participated in the previous waves. The strategy to minimise the absence of panel respondents includes regular contact with respondents, i.e. panel care (send¬ing birthday cards, season’s greetings, brochures with selected SHARE results to re¬spondents or providing incentives). The SHARE study relies on ex-ante harmonisa¬tion and includes a core survey instrument that is common in all member countries. Strict comparability is crucial. Comparability is ascertained through identical ques¬tion design, a careful translation process with external certification, an electronic survey instrument (CAPI, CASE CTRL starting from Wave 8), and common training procedures ascertained by a train-the-trainer programme. In addition to the variety