523 - Policy and Research Workshop. Panel Study of Income Dynamics Workshop

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

This interactive workshop is geared toward current and prospective users of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID, psid.org); the world’s longest running longitudinal household panel survey. It provides an overview of the general structure and content of the PSID and its supplemental surveys (including the Child Development Supplement, the Transition into Adulthood Study, and the Disability and Time Use Supplement) as well as an update on recent and current data collection efforts (the Rosters & Transfers Files, the Childhood Retrospective Circumstances Study, the Web/Mail Supplement, and the 2014 Child Development Supplement). The second half of the workshop includes a detailed walk-through of the PSID website, documentation, and data center as well as a question and answer session related to participant specific inquiries. The PSID has collected data on a wide range of sociologically relevant topics from a nationally representative sample of US families and their descendants since 1968. Content domains include employment, occupations, income, wealth, education, expenditures, health, aging, marriage, childbearing, child development, youth transitions, philanthropy, intergenerational relations, and numerous other topics.

Sub Unit

• Research/Policy Workshop

Session Organizer

• Fabian T. Pfeffer, University of Michigan

Leader

• Paula W. Fomby, University of Michigan