NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Institute for Social Research, University of MichiganMicrodata access: Register Geography United States of America (USA) Coverage type Country Time period covered 03/2009 - 12/2009 Series or system United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Data type Survey: HouseholdInterviewLongitudinalNationally representative Summary The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), is a nationally representative longitudinal household survey of families living in the United States. Begun in 1968, the survey was conducted annually until 1997. After 1997, the PSID main interview was conducted biennially, and supplemental studies on disability and use of time, child development, transition into adulthood, and others were instituted. Topics covered in the PSID main interview typically include income, housing, family composition, family history, marriage, expenditures, employment, and education. Questions on health status are asked in increasing detail starting in 1997. Keywords Aged adults, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Alcohol use disorders, Allergies, Anxiety disorders, Assets, Asthma, Bipolar affective disorder, Birth place, Birth weight, Breast cancer, COPD, Cancers, Cervix uteri cancer, Child development, Child health care, Children, Colon and rectum cancers, Corrective lenses, Dental care, Diabetes, Disability, Drug use disorders, Education, Education expenditures, Employment, Employment benefits, Epilepsy, Ethnicity, Family composition, Financial assistance for health, Food expenditures, Headache, Health care use, Health insurance, Health status, Heart disease, Heart failure, Height, Hodgkin lymphoma, Home care, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household expenditures, Household heat, Housing, Housing conditions, Hypertension, Income, Internet, Ischemic heart disease, Land ownership, Languages, Leisure activities, Limited mobility, Living conditions, Loans, Marital status, Mass media, Measles, Medicines, Melanoma, Mental and behavioral disorders, Migraine, Military service, Mobility aids, Mumps, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Nursing homes, Occupations, Ovary cancer, Parental survival, Parents, Personal health expenditures, Physical activity, Poverty, Prostate cancer, Public social assistance, Race, Religion, Respiratory infections, Rheumatoid arthritis, Schizophrenia, School enrollment, Siblings, Skin cancers, Stroke, Surgical procedures, Taxes, Telephones, Tobacco smoking, Trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers, Training programs, Transportation, Unemployment, Unipolar depressive disorders, Vaccine preventable childhood diseases, Varicella, Weight, Occupation codes, Summary sibling history Citation Contributors Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Funders National Science Foundation (United States) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Publisher Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Suggested citation Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics 2009. Ann Arbor, United States of America: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. GHDx Entry last modified on: Oct 10, 2024