Panel Study for Income Dynamics, Child Development Supplement Resource Guide |
Introduction
About the Guide
This resource guide provides a brief overview of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Child Development Supplement (PSID-CDS), and specific instructions for creating an extract dataset which you can download to your own computer. It also provides guidance in obtaining access to additional restricted-use data. This document draws extensively on the official PSID documentation. For complete information about the study, users can refer to the PSID Web site and the PSID-CDS Web site.
About the Data
The PSID-CDS, which is an extension of the core PSID, follows PSID households that had a child under the age of 13 in 1997 to collect information about their developmental outcomes in the context of family, community, and school environments. The core PSID dataset has surveyed a panel of U.S. families annually between 1968 and 1997, and every two years beginning in 1997. Over 8,000 families were interviewed in the most recent wave in 2005.
The PSID is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development, the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Content is broad, including employment, income, housing/neighborhood characteristics, program participation, health, health behaviors, expenditures, wealth, marriage and fertility history, demographic outcomes, and more.
Beginning in 1997, the PSID-CDS began collecting supplemental developmental information about a subsample of children in PSID households. To date, the CDS has collected data on these children at two points in time, 1997 (CDS-I) and 2002 (CDS-II) with a third wave of data collection taking place in 2007-2008 (CDS-III). Data related to child development is collected through multiple instruments including in-home interviews with the child and family members, telephone interviews with the primary and secondary caregivers, achievement tests, height and weight assessments, time diaries, interviews with teachers, and curriculum and school administration information.
Restricted access to geo-coded data is also available through special contractual arrangements, providing access to census geographic locations of households, and school identifiers that allow of PSID-CDS data to be linked to NCES Common Core Data and Private School Survey data. For details contact PSID staff.
Acknowledgements
This resource guide was prepared by Donald J. Hernandez, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York. It was developed for the PreK-3rd Data Resource Center: The First Six Years of Schooling and Beyond, a Web site hosted by ICPSR with support from the Foundation for Child Development. The help that PSID staff provided during the preparation this user's guide is gratefully acknowledged.
