Various institutes collect data about environmental characteristics (noise, air quality, facilities, earthquakes) of certain geolocations, for example based on x/y-coordinates.
The home address postal codes of adult participants (at the moment of their baseline assessment) were transformed to x/y-coordinates, enabling the linkage of environmental data to individual participants.
Lifelines is currently a member of the Geoscience and health cohort consortium (GECCO) which aims to facilitate the scientific analysis of linked environmental databases and health cohorts in the Netherlands (sections: lifestyle & environment and secondary & linked variables).