The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a longitudinal panel survey conducted in 27 European countries and Israel to understand the health, economic situation, well-being and other aspects of life of older people (50+). Lithuania has been participating in the survey since 2015 and has collected three waves of data. The survey in Lithuania is coordinated by a consortium of four institutions (Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuanian Social Science Centre and Vytautas Magnus University). SHARE survey data is not only valuable from a scientific perspective, but can also contribute to public policy analysis, allow to better understand the impact of policy decisions and support making evidence-based policy decisions.
One of the main activities of SHARE Lithuania is to coordinate national and international activities of the research infrastructure and to ensure the collection of SHARE data in Lithuania in order to maintain high quality data. SHARE Lithuania organises training and consultancy for researchers in the country in order to increase their competences and ensure effective use of data. SHARE Lithuania is committed to promoting the use of SHARE data in public policy making, providing data-driven analysis, recommendations and monitoring the impact of policy decisions. Finally, SHARE Lithuania focuses on the dissemination of the results achieved by the infrastructure to stakeholders and the general public.
Project results:
KTU is a Partner, which coordinates and organises training for Lithuanian scientists on SHARE data use and consulting of SHARE data users on data use issues; contributes to the dissemination of information about the Consortium’s and SHARE-ERIC infrastructure’s activities and results to scientists, policy makers and wider public; contributes to preparing public policy analyses, recommendations, insights, datasets based on SHARE survey data and their presentation to public policy makers; contributes to the preparation for the implementation of the SHARE survey waves in Lithuania and the collection of data; encourages its researchers to take part in trainings, research, publications and projects using SHARE survey data.
Period of project implementation: 2024-12-01 - 2025-12-31
Project coordinator: Vilnius University
Project partners: Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas University of Technology, Lietuvos socialinių mokslų centras