Data Announcements

This page provides a listing of all recent data product release announcements.

See the Data Alerts page to learn about notices of errors, corrections, or problems in HRS early and final public data releases.

Date Announcement
01/19/2026 RAND HRS 2022 Family Data
01/19/2026 2021 HRS Perspectives on the Pandemic Combined Spring and Fall Mail Survey
12/22/2025 Updated: The Cross-Wave Race and Ethnicity File
12/22/2025 Updated: The Cancer Site
12/22/2025 Updated: The Exit Date of Death
12/22/2025 Updated: The Respondent Date of Interview
12/22/2025 Updated: The Respondent Date of Birth
12/22/2025 VBS 2016 RNASeq Count Data
12/22/2025 VBS 2016 Neuropathological And Supplemental Biomarkers data release
12/22/2025 2022 Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Respondent and Informant Data
12/22/2025 2023 Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS)
12/22/2025 Tracker file (2022 Tracker Final Version 1.0)
12/22/2025 HRS 2022 Core (Final, Version 1.0)
12/22/2025 HRS 2022 Core Extended New Cohort (Early, Version 1.0)
05/21/2025 Cancer Site Updated
05/21/2025 Cross-wave Life History Mail Survey (LHMS): Harmonized and Aggregated Public Data Resource
05/21/2025 2022 Post Exit Final Version 1
05/21/2025 2022 Exit Final Version 1
05/21/2025 HRS 2022 Core (Early, Version 3.0) Updated
05/15/2025 RAND HRS Quarter 2 2025 Data Releases
01/07/2025 Tracker file (2022 Tracker Early Version 2.0)
01/07/2025 HRS Polygenic Scores 2006-2012 Genetic Data Version 5
01/07/2025 HRS 2014-2016 Dried Blood Spot IL6 Data
01/07/2025 HRS Dried Blood Spot C-Reactive Protein Crosswave Update
01/07/2025 Respondent Date of Birth Update
01/07/2025 Respondent Date of Interview Update
01/07/2025 Exit Date of Death Update
01/07/2025 Exit Place of Death Update
01/07/2025 2017 Fall Life History Mail Survey Historically Black College and University Data
10/01/2024 RAND HRS Quarter 2 2024 Data Releases
10/01/2024 Life History Mail Survey data
10/01/2024 2016 Venous Blood Study (VBS) Final Version 2.0
10/01/2024 2016 Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Respondent and Informant Data (Final Version 2.0)
10/01/2024 2016 Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Summary Cognitive and Functional Measures Data (Final Version 1.0)
10/01/2024 Tracker file (2022 Tracker Early Partial Version 1.0)
10/01/2024 HRS 2022 Core (Early, Version 2.0)
10/01/2024 HRS Cancer Site Data
10/01/2024 Cross-Wave Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS) Weights
09/30/2024 Respondent Detailed Religion/Denomination file
09/30/2024 Cross-Wave Race and Ethnicity File
09/30/2024 Cross-Wave Geographic Information (Detail) 1992 - 2020 v9.2
09/30/2024 Cross-Wave Census Region/Division and Mobility File
09/30/2024 Cross-wave Lifecourse Experiences of Adversity and Trauma Aggregated Data
02/28/2024 Cross-Wave Social Security Weights
02/28/2024 HRS 2022 Core (Early, Version 1.0)
02/09/2024 DNA Methylation (VBS 2016)
02/09/2024 2019 Health Survey: Medicines and Other Medications
02/09/2024 2019 Health Survey Sensitive Health Data File
02/09/2024 2020 Tracker Final Version 1.0
11/02/2023 2019 Spring LHMS Occupation and Industry
11/02/2023 Exit Place of Death
11/02/2023 Cross-Wave Social Security Weights
11/02/2023 RAND HRS CAMS Data File 2019
11/02/2023 2019 LHMS Spring V2
11/02/2023 2021 Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS)
11/02/2023 2020 Post Exit Final Version
11/02/2023 2020 Exit Final Version 1
05/26/2023 HRS HCAP 2016 Final Data Release (Final, Version 1.0)
04/20/2023 Tracker file (2020 Tracker Early Version 3.0)
04/20/2023 RAND HRS Public Data Releases and Updates
04/20/2023 Industry and Occupation Data
04/20/2023 Life History Mail Survey Occupation and Industry files
04/20/2023 Permissions Consent History files
04/20/2023 Cross-Wave Imputation of Cognitive Functioning Measures 1992-2020
04/20/2023 2021 HRS Perspectives on the Pandemic
04/20/2023 Life History Mail Survey (LHMS)
12/02/2022 HRS Linkage to Occupational Information Network Data (HRS-O*NET)
12/02/2022 HRS 2020 Core Module 10: Substance Use Problems
12/02/2022 Cross-Wave Marital History Aggregated Data
12/02/2022 2021 HRS Perspectives on the Pandemic
12/02/2022 2018 Post Exit Final Version 1
12/02/2022 2018 Exit Final Version 1
12/02/2022 Social Security Administration (SSA) Data
07/01/2022 Health and Retirement Study Linkage to Occupational Information Network Data (HRS-O*NET)
07/01/2022 2020 Tracker Early V1.0 file
03/15/2022 Respondent Cross-Year Detail Earnings file (version 6)
03/15/2022 Respondent Cross-Year Summary Earnings file (version 6)
03/15/2022 Respondent Detailed Religion/Denomination file
03/15/2022 2019 Health Survey (Early, Version 1)
03/15/2022 Employer-Sponsored Pension Wealth from Current Job in 2016
02/03/2022 Restricted Data Releases and Updates
02/03/2022 RAND HRS CAMS Data File 2019
02/03/2022 Public Permissions Consent History
02/03/2022 Cross-Wave Prospective Social Security Benefit Wealth Measures of Pre-Retirees Waves 10 and 13
02/03/2022 Cross-wave 2015-2017 Life History Mail Survey (LHMS): Harmonized and Aggregated Public Data Resource
02/03/2022 HRS 2020 Core (Early, Version 1.0)
10/04/2021 APOE and Serotonin Transporter Alleles (Early, Version 1.0)
10/04/2021 HRS 2018 Core (Final, Version 1.0)
08/12/2021 2019 Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS 2019) Final, Version 1.0
04/22/2021 Cross-Wave Geographic Information (State)
04/22/2021 Cross-Wave Geographic Information (Detail)
04/22/2021 Parent State Codes
04/22/2021 Child Zip Codes
04/22/2021 Cross-Wave Census Region/Division and Mobility File
03/16/2021 RAND HRS Fat Files update
03/16/2021 RAND HRS Detailed Imputations File 2018 (V1)
03/16/2021 RAND HRS Longitudinal File 2018 (V1)
03/16/2021 RAND HRS 2018 Fat File
03/16/2021 Disability Analysis File (DAF) V1.0 is now available
03/16/2021 Cross-Wave Social Security Weights have been updated