"The Changing Lives of Older Couples Study (CLOC) is a large multi-wave prospective study of spousal bereavement. The CLOC study is based on a two-stage area probability sample of 1,532 married men and women from the Detroit, Michigan Standardized Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA). To be eligible for the study, respondents had to be English-speaking members of a married couple, where the husband was at least age 65. All respondents were non-institutionalized and were capable of participating in a two-hour face-to-face interview. "
"While primarily a study of spousal bereavement, the dataset also includes a host of other psychosocial and biomedical variables. The combined dataset includes 1532 cases and over 3000 variables that cover every aspect of social, psychological, and physical functioning of older adults. The analysis and distribution of this data set is made possible by a grant from the National Institute on Aging to the University of Michigan (Randolph Nesse, PI). This website provides ready access to the data and codebooks as well as information on projects underway or completed. It is intended to encourage other researchers to make use of this remarkable resource."
Site includes access to datasets, codebooks and a list of resulting publications.
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