State of Aging in Allegheny County Survey

Description

For more than three decades UCSUR has documented the status of older adults in the County along multiple life domains. Every decade we issue a comprehensive report on aging in Allegheny County and this report represents our most recent effort. It documents important shifts in the demographic profile of the population in the last three decades, characterizes the current status of the elderly in multiple life domains, and looks ahead to the future of aging in the County. This report is unique in that we examine not only those aged 65 and older, but also the next generation old persons, the Baby Boomers. Collaborators on this project include the Allegheny County Area Agency on Aging, the United Way of Allegheny County, and the Aging Institute of UPMC Senior Services and the University of Pittsburgh. The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive analysis of aging in Allegheny County. To this end, we integrate survey data collected from a representative sample of older county residents with secondary data available from Federal, State, and County agencies to characterize older individuals on multiple dimensions, including demographic change and population projections, income, work and retirement, neighborhoods and housing, health, senior service use, transportation, volunteering, happiness and life satisfaction, among others. Since baby boomers represent the future of aging in the County we include data for those aged 55-64 as well as those aged 65 and older.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 Aging survey data dictionary https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/33891263-235f-4c6c-af8a-c79b0114a9f9/resource/d9c54000-dfd8-4d90-b490-b6a9bd423285/download/datadictionary.csv
57 All archived materials including data in spss format. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/33891263-235f-4c6c-af8a-c79b0114a9f9/resource/24fb8cfc-0eb3-4d90-88cc-a917ea396097/download/ucsur-soa-data.zip
21 UCSUR landing page for the state of aging survey. This link has been updated from the old link: http://ucsur.pitt.edu/center-reports/november-2014-state-aging-allegheny-county/ https://ucsur.pitt.edu/state_of_aging_2014.php
53 A list of values for each variable in the aging survey https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/33891263-235f-4c6c-af8a-c79b0114a9f9/resource/9f83585c-6b85-4a49-a559-343141badd17/download/codebook.xlsx
33 The State of Aging in Allegheny County: October 2014 https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/33891263-235f-4c6c-af8a-c79b0114a9f9/resource/e223b449-8efa-4442-9611-eb02bea141a6/download/state-of-aging-in-allegheny-county-report.pdf
8 Record-level survey results anonymized to 2010 Census tract https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/33891263-235f-4c6c-af8a-c79b0114a9f9/resource/c29c46fe-5bf7-431a-9c1c-a9e2e4e81eff/download/ucsur-soa-data-for-distribution-2015-oct-14.csv

Tags

  • allegheny-county
  • gerontology
  • survey
  • older-adults
  • aging

Topics

  • Local Government

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