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Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
STIPULATIONS FOR USE: This data is only available for use by PENN STATE researchers. PSID files have been created for the annual family files for 1968-2005, the 1985-2001 Childbirth & Adoption file and the 1985-2001 Marriage History file. If you have a PopNet account you can select variables to create a custom subset. This subset can be another SAS file or a comma or tab delimited file that can be imported into another software package.
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. 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 nearly 8,000 families in 2003. At the conclusion of 2003 data collection, the PSID has collected information about more than 65,000 individuals spanning as much as 36 years of their lives. The PSID data files provide a wide variety of information about both families and individuals collected over the span of the study. The central focus of the data is economic and demographic, with substantial detail on income sources and amounts, employment, family composition changes, and residential location. Content of a more sociological or psychological nature is also included in some waves of the study. Information gathered in the survey applies to the circumstances of the family unit as a whole (e.g., type of housing) or to particular persons in the family unit (e.g., age, earnings). While some information is collected about all individuals in the family unit, the greatest level of detail is ascertained for the primary adults heading the family unit. The study is conducted at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan and has been made possible through the generous sponsorship of government agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the United States Department of Labor, and the Center on Philanthropy at the Indiana University-Purdue University.
ORIGINATING AGENCY / PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S): Frank P. Stafford (Director), Robert F. Schoeni (Associate Director), Jacquelynne S. Eccles (Co-investigator), and Hiromi Ono (Co-investigator). The study is conducted at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
RELATED WEB SITES:
PSID Web Site
PSID Data News and Errata Page
Child Development Supplement Web Site
PSID Calendar Methods Study - See screen shot from Event History Calendar Program
PSID Health Status and Health Behavior Measures - Use the PSID to measure health!
Note: Beginning in 1997 the Annual Family Files will be issued every other year.
Child Development Supplement News: If you are interested in the CDS II (2002), you will need to extract the data online (or request that the Data Archivist make the extraction for you). No raw data is available at this time for full download. See the PSID Data Center Web Page to choose your variables. For information on the CDS data, please see the link above under "RELATED WEB SITES."