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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>As agreed in the last zoom, I would like to kick-start the
discussion on the regional clusters to try for the Data Navigator.
Below is my suggestion from a care perspective (other groupings
could be relevant, especially for caregiving, but I think this one
would be general enough in my opinion).</p>
<p>We could also have different groupings for different variables,
but that might be too confusing, even if we would signal that in
the website.</p>
<p>Looking forward to your views on this.</p>
<p>I also circulate some an individual country graphs with smooth
lines (thank you to Eszter) - i.e. with lines that take into
account the wider time gap between some waves of SHARE. This
produces actually relatively smooth trends for wealth. Just as an
additional input.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Ricardo<br>
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<p>Possible regional/welfare regime clusters for Data Navigator:</p>
<p><b>Eastern Europe</b>: Czech Republic (if only till wave 6) OR
Czech Republic, Slovenia and Estonia (if also using wave 7 - e.g.
ADLs)</p>
<p><b>Southern Europe</b>: Spain, Italy (if only till wave 6) OR
Spain, Italy and Greece (if also wave 7 - there are some issues
with the Greek data by income/wealth for the 1st wave)</p>
<p><b>Continental Europe</b>: Austria, Germany, France, Belgium (if
only till wave 6), OR Austria, Germany, France, Belgium and
Switzerland (if also wave 7). <br>
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<p><b>Nordic Europe</b>: Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands
(regardless of wave).</p>
<p>Continental Europe is the <span class="ILfuVd"><span
class="hgKElc">Smørrebrød or gulasch group here, but
personally I could live with this from a care perspective.
Similarly, the Netherlands would be a "Nordic country" based
on its system characteristics - this may be a contentious
country for the ADL and IADL. Switzerland is a bit of an
odd-country out but it fits with the Continental group of
sorts.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">I considered only
countries that were at least in 3 waves of SHARE.<br>
</span></span></p>
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