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