PSID Data now available

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PSID 2013 Main Interview Data are now available
This version replaces and expands the early release file “Housing, mortgage distress, and wealth” (January 2014 release).
  • The 2013 PSID Main Interview Data includes data collected during Wave 38 of the PSID on 9,063 families and 24,952 individuals between March and December, 2013.
  • Updated versions of the Parent Identification File, Marriage History File, and Childbirth and Adoption History File, have also been released in the Data Center, as well as in .zip format.
  • To download the 2013 PSID Main Interview Data please go to the PSID website’s Data Center.
PSID 2013 Restricted Data are now available
  • The PSID Mortality Data File has been updated with data on the cause of death matched from the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Death Index for 2013 decedents. The data file contains information about all individuals in the PSID who are known to be decedents from the beginning of the study through the most recently available wave of data collection. See the PSID Mortality Data File Codebook for further detail.
  • School Characteristic Data are available for PSID sample members 1975-2013. Variables containing school identifier information are provided that may be linked to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Integrated Post-secondary Education Data System (IPEDS). See the PSID-IPEDS Codebook for additional details.
PSID 2013 Roster & Transfers (Release 3) Data are now available
This version replaces and expands the early release file (January 2014 release).
  • This release includes the 2013 ‘1968 Identifier’ and ‘Person Number’ to allow direct linking to individuals in the 2013 PSID Main Interview Data.
  • Data for family members include age, educational attainment, marital/partner status, and number of children, and respondent reports of any recent or long-term transfers of time and money to and from them.
  • The .zip file contains data files and SAS, SPSS and Stata statements as well as complete codebooks.
Family Identification System Mapping Tool (FIMS) update is now available
A new feature has been added to FIMS, a software application that automatically creates a customized file containing identification variables of PSID respondents’ relatives. A prospective inter-generational map (GID PRO) is now available.
  • With this feature, the starting generation (G1) is the original sample from 1968. Descendants of original PSID households form subsequent generations, up to three generations down (G2 – child, G3 – grandchild, G4 – great-grandchild).
  • The map provides biological relation (father or mother) between individuals and generation position of all individuals listed on each row.