User Generated Variables/Data Sets

This page provides links to programs and data sets that may be of interest to the PSID user community. We provide no warranties and minimal support for these programs. If you'd like to share your programs and/or data sets that use PSID data, please send us your link.

1. The Cross-National Equivalent File 1980-2002 contains equivalently defined variables for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), and the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID).
   http://www.human.cornell.edu/pam/gsoep/equivfil.cfm



2. Lee A. Lillard, director of the Retirement Research Center at the University of Michigan, senior research scientist at its Institute for Social Research, and professor of economics, developed a unique method for analyzing the rich compendium of data collected by the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) since its inception in 1968. Lee created what he called "clean processes" to investigate a number of dynamic behaviors that are measured longitudinally in PSID, such as employment, marriage-divorce, and fertility.
   http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/01239.xml



3. A SAS Program which creates tax variables for the 1991 family dataset.
   ftp://ftp.isr.umich.edu/pub/src/psid/other/tax91.zip



4. Boisjoly, Duncan, and Smeeding recoded "job loss" using 1968-1992 data into the categories of laid-off, fired, quit, company folded, and missing. They provide three files that include:
   1) a STATA SE 8.0 file called mlisco.dta;
   2) a WORD file called Job Loss File Description.doc describing the contents of the STATA file; and
   3) a PDF file of their paper called Job Loss.pdf (citation below) which provides the definitions used, including the definition of "a job worth losing".
   
   Boisjoly, Johanne, Duncan, Greg J., and Smeeding, Timothy. The Shifting Incidence of Involuntary Job Losses from 1968-1992. Industrial Relations. 1998; 37(2):207-231.



5. Threshold Data File by Lloyd D. Grieger.
   1) Poverty_Thresholds_Wide.dta is a ready-to-merge STATA datafile with 67,271 observations in wide form. It includes the 1968 Interview number, 1968 person number, and the poverty thresholds for each year in wide form.
   2) Poverty_Thresholds_Long.do is a STATA .do file with code for people who want to input the thresholds onto a data set that is in long form.
   3) Read me file has some brief instructions.
   4) Paper Accurately Measuring the Trend in Poverty in the United States Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics by Lloyd D. Grieger, Sheldon Danziger and Robert F. Schoeni.