25-FEB-2000
1997 PSID Individual Data by Years
VERSION 3 OF 1968-1997 Public Release I INDIVIDUAL FILE
The finalization of the 1985-1997 Family History Files gave PSID staff the opportunity to correct some errors and add variables in our archive of individual data. The errors included scrambled data records for a few individuals, and so the case count has changed. The added variables include 1994-1997 Type of Individual and Why Non-Response; 1994-1997 Month and Year of Move Out and Family Interview Number of Main Family for splitoff individuals; 1994-1997 Follow Status; and 1996-1997 Reason for Following an individual. Age variables for all waves are now three-digit, with no topcoding at age 98, and 1994-1997 employment status for Other Family Unit Members is now included. See the readme file in the zip package for details.
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