Swedish National Infrastructures of Research Data
Other than the Swedish Twin Registry, the Swedish Research Council also supports other national infrastructures with resources that may be of interest.
CORS (Comparative Research Center Sweden)
CORS is a national research infrastructure consortium that incorporates the largest, most influential and most widely used, international and national survey programs in Sweden.
These are the European Social Survey (ESS), European Values Study (EVS), International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Swedish National Election Studies (SNES). The Swedish Citizen Panel (SCP) at the SOM Institute is also part of CORS. SCP is a research driven webpanel that offers ways of conducting various methodological experiments as well as following individuals or groups over time.
The aim of CORS is to enable class-leading comparative survey research, and to contribute to improved policymaking and democratic debate in Sweden.
The National E-infrastructure for Aging Research (NEAR)
NEAR promotes and supports aging research by facilitating the use of longitudinal population-based data from various well-known Swedish cohort studies on aging and health. It is based on a collaboration among eight Swedish universities and includes 15 databases with individual assessments. Additionally, NEAR collaborates with other national infrastructures such as SIMPLER and CORS.
NEAR’s mission is to enable high-quality aging research by providing big health data while maintaining the same quality and richness as in single population-based studies. NEAR also aims to increase national and international exchange and collaboration and enhance the quality and generalizability of aging research results. NEAR provides a broad range of biomedical, clinical, social, and psychological health data from around 90,000 older adults followed for 12 to 52 years.
REWHARD (Relations, Work and Health across the life-course ̶ A Research Data infrastructure)
REWHARD comprises the nodes LNU, SLOSH, IMAS and STODS. We work to strengthen the conditions for research on working and living conditions, sickness absence, health and well-being.
REWHARD offers various services such as data access or analyses, sharing of statistical syntax files and advice on ordering and handling data. We also organise seminars on the use of Swedish databases for research within our field.
REWHARD's nodes include longitudinal linked microdata covering several decades from both surveys and nationwide registers for tens of thousands to several million individuals.
SIMPLER
SIMPLER consists of two large population-based longitudinal cohorts and three region-specific sub-cohorts, an extensive biobank with blood, urine, fat biopsies, saliva, stool, and DNA, and a large database that now includes a growing component of omics.
This national infrastructure, initiated in 1987, provides information about 110,000 men and women from three regions. Over the years, the participants have undergone repeated examinations, and the SIMPLER database has been updated against national registries.
The infrastructure's primary purpose is to provide users with integrated longitudinal lifestyle data, register information, and molecular measurements to foster high-quality research regarding the genetic and lifestyle causes of the development and consequences of late-onset disorders.
SwedPop (Svenska befolkningsdatabaser för forskning)
SwedPop is a national research infrastructure with harmonized individual-level, life-course, cross-sectional and panel data, including large populations and a variety of social and geographical settings over long time periods.
Data in SwedPop includes numerous demographic and socio-economic variables and covers large parts of the Swedish 19th and 20th century population, including the largest cities Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Fully developed the infrastructure will offer access to linked life-course data for c. 3.5 million individuals from the 17th to the 20th centuries in selected regions, full-count national censuses 1880-1950 and death records from 1860-2019.
The coordination in SwedPop improves the quality and comparability of the data, increases the spatial coverage, and bridges the gap between historical and modern population registers.
UGU (Utvärdering Genom Uppföljning)
Evaluation Through Follow-up (UGU) is a longitudinal study that has developed a unique database within the field of educational science. UGU consists of several longitudinal surveys that have been combined into a whole, which together creates a cohort sequential database.
The database contains ten different birth cohorts that are nationally representative samples which make it possible to carry out longitudinal, sequential, and cross-sectional analyses. The data consists of administrative tasks, measures of study prerequisites, survey tasks, study results and cognitive tests.
UGU is one of the oldest social science databases in Sweden, the first survey was carried out in 1961.