The objectives of this panel survey are to understand the socio-economic status of the elderly, their physical and financial dependency and their health status including cognition and well-being, access to the health care system, and social protection schemes. It would create a panel of datasets on Socio Economic Status of Elderly population and provide a unique platform to achieve the goals to improve the well being of the elderly population.
This survey is being conducted in co-ordination with Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab - South Asia (J-PAL-SA) for a period of three years and it acts as a technical advisory as well as quality control. In this survey, Health Measurements and Bio Markers are being collected.
Five districts namely Chennai,(Greater Chennai Area), Thiruvannamalai, Dharmapuri, Tiruchirappalli and Kanyakumari Districts have been selected for the survey based on the Human Development Index and Dependency ratio.
The House listing was completed in mid July 2018. Nearly 92,000 Households were screened in these five districts.
Baseline survey was completed in June 2019. 4739 households with 6294 Elderly population from the house listing has been surveyed in the baseline Survey by the Department of Economic and Statistics; Department of Public Health has collected Health Measurements from 4496 elderly population. Data analysis was completed. The Baseline survey report has also been presented.