Cohort Discovery by Population
A cohort is a population sharing common characteristics.
Long cohort:
What is a cohort? A cohort is simply a group of people who share a common characteristic or experience. Clicking on these links will take you to care-related metadata that's already filtered by different cohort groups.
What kinds of groups will you find? These groups include standard demographic categories used by official data sources (like age ranges: 0-5 years old), everyday descriptions (adults or children), and less-studied groups like unpaid caregivers. Because we want to understand the full care economy, we also include non-person groups like "care services" in our cohort categories.
Why do some categories overlap? This overlap is intentional—it helps us see how different metadata describes the same groups and identify gaps in available research. You can select multiple categories to broaden your search and add or remove filters as you explore.
Click "Data by Population” to go to care-related metadata filtered by different groups: demographic categories (age ranges like 0-5 years), everyday descriptions (adults/children), less-studied groups (unpaid caregivers), and non-person categories (care services). Overlapping categories help identify research gaps. Select multiple categories to broaden your search and add or remove filters as you explore.