Source: PSID
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EDS Study ID: 1001
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Keywords:
attitudes
economic behavior
economic change
economic conditions
employment history
families
family history
fertility
food aid
household expenditures
household income
housing
income
marriage
population trends
poverty
social change
social indicators
socioeconomic status
Summary:
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), begun in 1968, is
a longitudinal study of a representative sample of
U.S. individuals (men, women, and children) and the family
units in which they reside. The data were collected
annually through 1997, and biennially starting in 1999.It
emphasizes the dynamic aspects of economic and demographic
behavior, but its content is broad, including sociological
and psychological measures. As a consequence of low
attrition rates and the success in following young adults as
they form their own families and recontact efforts (of those
declining an interview in prior years), the sample size has
grown from 4,800 families in 1968 to more than 7,000
families in 2001. At the conclusion of 2003 data collection,
the PSID will have collected information about more than
65,000 individuals spanning as much as 36 years of their
lives.
Availability: This is a public data set. The recommended way to use this data is the through web interface called the "Data Center" that allows for cross-wave extraction of custom subsets of data and matching codebooks. For those who prefer working with the individual files, these and the accompanying documentation are also at the site.