Reproducibility files

Uccheddu, Damiano, and Ester Lucia Rizzi. ‘Intergenerational Ties and COVID-19 Contagion: A Study on European Adults Aged 50 Years and Older Using SHARE Data’. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78, no. 4 (2023): 749–63. DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbac196.

This README provides a guide for replicating the study "Intergenerational Ties and COVID-19 Contagion" DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbac196.

Instructions

1. Source Data Acquisition: Download the source data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) website into your working directory: SHARE Data Portal at "A:\Encrypted datasets\Source\SHARE".
2. Do-file Preparation: Navigate to "C:\Users\Damiano\Dropbox\_Projects\FRS-FNRS_PER - Paper 1\Data analysis\Reproducibility files\0. Master do-file" and open the do-file "[FRS-FNRS_PER] - 01 - First Paper - Master do-file.do" for editing.
3. File Path Adjustment: Modify the file paths (lines 85 to 115 in the master do-file) to align with your computer's directory structure.
4. Data Analysis Execution: Run the do-file "[FRS-FNRS_PER] - 01 - First Paper - Master do-file.do" in Stata from its location to replicate the data analysis.

Data availability

This paper uses data from the SHARE Wave 8 COVID-19 Survey 1 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w8ca.800) and SHARE Wave 9 COVID-19 Survey 2 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w9ca.800). In addition, this paper uses data from the regular SHARE Waves 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 (DOIs: https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w1.800, https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w2.800, https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w4.800, https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w5.800, https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w6.800, https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w7.800, and https://doi.org/10.6103/SHARE.w8.800). Data were retrieved from https://releases.sharedataportal.eu/login/ (on 19 December 2022).

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) data are distributed by SHARE-ERIC (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe – European Research Infrastructure Consortium) to registered users through the SHARE Research Data Center. The official SHARE Research Data Center website (https://releases.sharedataportal.eu/users/login) is the sole online access point to the SHARE data. Here SHARE users can download the SHARE data after a successful registration. For further details regarding SHARE microdata access, please visit http://www.share-project.org/data-access.html.

Codebooks and questionnaires

Original questionnaires can be found at https://share-eric.eu/data/data-documentation/questionnaires. Original codebooks can be found at https://www.share-datadocutool.org.

Notes

• Do-files:

  • The master do-file contains Stata code for dataset creation, cleaning, and analysis execution.
  • Separate do-files are dedicated to dataset creation ("[FRS-FNRS_PER] - 01 - First Paper - Dataset Creation.do"), data cleaning ("[FRS-FNRS_PER] - 01 - First Paper - Data Cleaning.do"), and statistical analysis ("[FRS-FNRS_PER] - 01 - First Paper - Data Analysis.do").

• Output Storage:

  • Tables will be stored in "A:\Encrypted datasets\Derived\FRS_FNRS_PER-Paper_1\Output folder\Tables".
  • Figures will be stored in "A:\Encrypted datasets\Derived\FRS_FNRS_PER-Paper_1\Output folder\Figures".

• Logging:

  • Log files will be stored in "A:\Encrypted datasets\Derived\FRS_FNRS_PER-Paper_1\Output folder\Log folder".

• Codebooks:

  • Codebooks will be stored in "A:\Encrypted datasets\Derived\FRS_FNRS_PER-Paper_1\Output folder\Codebook".

Directory Structure

Do-files

	C:.
	|   README.md
	|
	+---0. Master do-file
	|       [FRS-FNRS_PER] - 01 - First Paper - Master do-file.do
	|
	+---1. Dataset Creation
	|       [FRS-FNRS_PER] - 01 - First Paper - Dataset Creation.do
	|
	+---2. Data Cleaning
	|       [FRS-FNRS_PER] - 01 - First Paper - Data Cleaning.do
	|
	\---3. Data Analysis
			[FRS-FNRS_PER] - 01 - First Paper - Data Analysis.do

Datasets

	A:.
	\---Encrypted datasets
		+---Derived
		|   \---Output folder
		|       +---Codebook
		|       +---Figures
		|       +---Log folder
		|       +---SCS
		|       +---Tables
		|       \---W_All
		\---Source
			\---SHARE
				\---Release 8.8.0
					+---NL_mmExp_sharew6_rel1-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---NL_mmExp_sharew7_rel1-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharetom5_stata
					|       sharetom5.ado
					|       sharetom5.hlp
					|       sharetom5_readme.txt
					|
					+---sharew1_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharew2_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharew3_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharew4_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharew5_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharew6_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharew7_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharew8ca_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharew8_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharew8_rel8-0-0_gv_accelerometer_epochs_stata
					|   \---dta
					|       +---be_fr
					|       +---be_nl
					|       +---cz
					|       +---de
					|       +---dk
					|       +---es
					|       +---fr
					|       +---it
					|       +---pl
					|       +---se
					|       \---si
					+---sharew9ca_rel8-0-0_ALL_datasets_stata
					+---sharewX_rel8-0-0_easySHARE_stata
					+---sharewX_rel8-0-0_gv_allwaves_cv_r_stata
					+---sharewX_rel8-0-0_gv_job_episodes_panel_stata
					+---sharewX_rel8-0-0_gv_linkage_stata
					+---sharewX_rel8-0-0_gv_longitudinal_weights_stata
					\---SHARE_computing_calibrated_weights_stata
						\---Analysis
							+---ado
							\---SHARE Examples
								\---data