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Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS)
This information is only for PRI affiliates
STIPULATIONS FOR USE: Access to files on PopNet limited to Penn State PRI researchers. Please REGISTER to use these data. The registration will be used as a means to contact users with future commincations from the MHAS project.
DESCRIPTION: The MHAS is a prospective panel study of Mexicans born prior to 1951. The 2001 baseline is nationally representative of some 13 million Mexicans and similar in design and content to the Health and Retirement Study ( http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu ). Self or proxy interviews were obtained with 9,719 sampled persons and 6,112 spouse partners (n=15,186), for an overall response rate of 90.1%. MHAS includes measures of health (including childhood circumstances and cognition), family structure and transfers, migration history of respondents and kin, sources of income and wealth, and work history. In addition, MHAS includes a performance reading test of medication directions for respondents with low levels of formal education and, for a random subsample of 2138, anthropometric measurements were obtained. If you are familiar with the HRS, you will recognize the content on health, family structure, and transfers. Concepts in most other HRS sections are measured in MHAS, but within the institutional context of Mexico. All amount variables (e.g., number of hours or pesos) are measured with unfolding brackets. Households in the six states which send 40% of all Mexican migrants to the U.S. were oversampled at a rate slightly less than 2:1. Data collection was done in collaboration with The National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics of México. The second wave of data collection begins in May 2003 and data should be available early in 2004.
ORIGINATING AGENCY / PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Beth J. Soldo (University of Pennsylvania), Rebeca Wong (University of Maryland), Alberto Palloni (University of Wisconsin) and the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatics (INEGI)
RELATED WEB SITES:
MHAS Project Web Site at UPENN
PRI, FACULTY, AFFILIATES AND STUDENTS: Data is also available in SPSS and STATA. If you are interested in having these data versions added to the archive, please contact the Data Archivist.
| Year(s) / Wave(s) | Abstract? | Data Location | Input Statement | Document Location |
| 2001 | Yes | POPNET: | Data is already in SAS | POPNET: Basic Questionnaire and Proxy Questionnaire are also available. |
DATA DISSEMINATED BY: University of Pennsylvania