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Improving Data on America's Aging Population

Summary of a Workshop

Deborah Carr, Anu Pemmarazu, Dorothy P. Rice, Editors

Committee on National Statistics

Committee on Population

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C. 1996

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COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS 1995–1996

NORMAN M. BRADBURN (Chair),

National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago

JOHN E. ROLPH (Vice Chair),

Department of Information and Operations Management, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California

JULIE DAVANZO, RAND,

Santa Monica, California

WILLIAM F. EDDY,

Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

JOHN F. GEWEKE,

Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

JOEL B. GREENHOUSE,

Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

ERIC A. HANUSHEK,

W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, Department of Economics, University of Rochester

NICHOLAS JEWELL,

Program in Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

CHARLES F. MANSKI,

Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

WILLIAM NORDHAUS,

Department of Economics, Yale University

JANET L. NORWOOD,

The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

EDWARD B. PERRIN,

Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington

KEITH F. RUST,

Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland

FRANCISCO J. SAMANIEGO,

Division of Statistics, University of California, Davis

MIRON L. STRAF, Director

MICHELE L. CONRAD, Division Administrator

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COMMITTEE ON POPULATION 1995–1996

RONALD D. LEE (Chair),

Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley

CAROLINE H. BLEDSOE,

Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University

JOSE-LUIS BOBADILLA,

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

JOHN BONGAARTS,

The Population Council, New York

JOHN B. CASTERLINE,

The Population Council, New York

LINDA G. MARTIN, RAND,

Santa Monica, California

ROBERT A. MOFFITT,

Department of Economics, Brown University

MARK R. MONTGOMERY,

The Population Council, New York

W. HENRY MOSLEY,

Department of Population Dynamics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

ALBERTO PALLONI,

Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

JAMES P. SMITH, RAND,

Santa Monica, California

BETH J. SOLDO,

Department of Demography, Georgetown University

MARTA TIENDA,

Population Research Center, University of Chicago

AMY O. TSUI,

Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

JOHN HAAGA, Director

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WORKSHOP ON PRIORITIES FOR DATA ON THE AGING POPULATION

Participants

DOROTHY RICE (Chair),

Institute for Health and Aging, University of California-San Francisco

RONALD ABELES,

National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

CLYDE BEHNEY,

Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine

RICHARD BURKHAUSER,

Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

ROBERT CLARK,

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

STEVEN CLAUSER,

Health Care Financing Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

STEVEN COHEN,

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DAVID CUTLER,

Department of Economics, Harvard University

LILY ENGSTROM,

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

JACOB FELDMAN,

National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DOROTHY GILFORD,

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

NANCY GORDON,

Demographic Programs, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce

JONATHAN GRUBER,

Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

HOLLY HARVEY,

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

ROBERT HAUSER,

Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

RICHARD HAVLICK,

National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

SANDRA HOFFERTH,

Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

MICHAEL HURD,

Department of Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook

DAVID JOHNSON,

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor

THOMAS JUSTER,

Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

ROBERT KANE,

Institute for Health Services Research, School for Public Health, University of Minnesota

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ROBERT KOMINSKI,

Population Division, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce

MARION EIN LEWIN,

Institute of Medicine

JENNIFER MADANS,

Division of Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

KENNETH MANTON,

Center for Demographic Studies, Duke University

NADINE MARKS,

Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison

MARY McCARTHY,

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor

FAITH MITCHELL,

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

MARILYN MOON,

The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.

ROBERT MOORE,

Bureau of Data Management and Strategy, Health Care Financing Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

RANDALL OLSEN,

Center for Human Resources Research, Ohio State University

JAN OLSON,

Social Security Administration

GEORGIANNE PATMIOS,

National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DEBORAH PHILLIPS,

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

WILLIAM RAUB,

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

PHILIP RONES,

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor

TIMOTHY SMEEDING,

Metropolitan Studies Program and Economics Department, Syracuse University

BETH SOLDO,

Department of Demography, Georgetown University

ROBYN STONE,

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

MICHAEL STOTO,

Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

RICHARD SUZMAN,

Office of Demography, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

BARBARA BOYLE TORREY,

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

JOAN VAN NOSTRAND,

National Center for Health Statistics, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

ROBERT WALLACE,

Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Iowa

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KATHERINE WALLMAN,

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Office of Management and Budget

ROBERT WILLIS,

Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

GOOLOO WUNDERLICH,

Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine

Staff

DEBORAH CARR, Rapporteur

AGNES GASKIN, Senior Project Assistant

JOHN HAAGA, Director,

Committee on Population

ANU PEMMARAZU, Research Assistant

MIRON L. STRAF, Director,

Committee on National Statistics

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Preface

In March 1996 the Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population convened a group of experts for a two-day workshop on priorities for data on the aging population. The workshop provided a vehicle for serious brainstorming among a group of policy analysts, principal investigators for the major surveys, academic and other researchers, and others interested in aging-related statistics from many perspectives.

The purposes of the workshop were to explore how the population at older ages in the next few decades will differ from the older population today, to understand the underlying causes of those changes, to anticipate future problems and policy issues, and to suggest how future data needs can be met for the purposes of research; for understanding the social, economic, and health conditions of the older population; and for informing public policy.

Participants reviewed developments on statistics for the aging population since publication of the Committee on National Statistics report The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century (Gilford, 1988) and major trends in the population at older ages, identified policy issues for which data may be needed, described current data collection efforts, and suggested changes to more effectively meet future data needs.

Funding for the workshop was provided by the National Institute on Aging, and we thank its director, Richard Hodes, and Richard Suzman, director of the institute's Office of Demography, for their interest in and support of this project. A number of staff of the National Research Council contributed time and expertise to the workshop and the production of this report. Miron Straf, John Haaga, and Anu Pemmarazu organized the workshop. Agnes Gaskin was the project

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assistant. In addition, Deborah Carr of the University of Wisconsin at Madison served as rapporteur. Editorial assistance was provided by Eugenia Grohman.

We are especially grateful to the chair Dorothy Rice and workshop participants for their time and effort to this task. The report that follows is a summary of their presentations and discussion.

Norman M. Bradburn, Chair

Committee on National Statistics

Ronald D. Lee, Chair

Committee on Population

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The Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Population, at the request of the NIA, convened a workshop in March 1996 to discuss data on the aging population that address the emerging and important social, economic, and health conditions of the older population. The purposes of the workshop were to identify how the population at older ages in the next few decades will differ from the older population today, to understand the underlying causes of those changes, to anticipate future problems and policy issues, and to suggest future needs for data for research in these areas. The scope of the workshop was broader than that of the 1988 CNSTAT report, including not only data on health and long-term care, but also actuarial, economic, demographic, housing, and epidemiological data needs for informing public policy.

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