Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) Wave-1, Rajasthan

Agency : IIPS

The Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) is a national survey of scientific investigation of the health, economic, and social determinants and consequences of population ageing in India. LASI is a nationally representative survey of older adults aged 45+ in all 30 States and 6 Union Territories that will be conducted every 2 years for the period of 25 year. LASI is developed as per the needs of the Indian elderly population but at the same time it is internationally harmonized enabling not only cross-state analyses within India but cross- country analyses.

The main goal of LASI is to collect credible scientific data on burden of disease, mental health, social and economic wellbeing of elderly population in India.

LASI is designed to cover six major subject and policy domains of adult and older population of India namely:

* Demography, Migration and Marital status, and Housing and Environment

* Health: Disease Burden & Risk factors (reported and measured)

* Health Care and Health Care Financing

* Social: Family and Social Network

* Economic: Income, Wealth, Consumption, Expenditure,

* Work and Employment, Retirement and Pension

* Welfare Programs for Elderly

LASI fieldwork for Rajasthan was conducted from September 2016 to July 2017 by IIHMR University and International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai as the nodal agency and gathered information from 2240 individuals aged 45+ and their spouses less than 45 years and additional 3 individuals of aged 65+ from 80 secondary sampling unit (SSU) from 12 districts of Rajasthan.


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