There are two ways to download data: the Data Center, and packaged data. In the Data Center you can create customized extracts and codebooks. Alternatively, if you want to download the entire PSID archive for a specific year or every year since 1968, you can do so as a packaged data file. Full questionnaires and additional documentation are available under the packaged data option.

Data Center
We recommend that you use the Data Center, which is where you create customized extracts and codebooks.

• Packaged Main Data, Documentation, and Questionnaires
  Download compressed (.zip) files containing the PSID main data since 1968. Files include data, data definition statements, codebooks, cross-year indices, and more. Questionnaires include Computer Assisted Interviewing Documentation, scanned paper versions of questionnaires, and box-and-arrow type questionnaires. The Computer Assisted Interviewing Documentation is an interactive, simulated questionnaire much like the actual PSID survey instrument.
  
  
• Packaged Supplemental Data and Documentation
  Occasionally, PSID creates supplemental data that includes many interesting calculated variables. Some supplemental data are also available in the Data Center.

CDS Data and Documentation
Provides data and useful documentation on CDS.

Sample Weights
Documentation for the PSID, CDS and TA sample weights.

Family Identification and Mapping System (FIMS)
A tool to create a file of identification mappings of individuals to their parents, grandparents, and siblings of respondents. (Login required)

Data News
Information about updates, edits, and errata to data.

Summary Lists of PSID Data On Various Topics 1968 and Forward

• Expenditures Data Collected in the PSID: 1968 and Forward
• Data on Housing-Related Issues Collected in the PSID: 1968 and Forward
• Summary of Health Status and Health Behavior Measures in the PSID: 1968 and Forward
• Summary of Food and BMI Data in the PSID: 1968 and Forward
• Summary of Food, Nutrition and Health Data in the CDS
• Summary of Educational Measures in the PSID: 1968-2007
• Summary of Religion Measures in the PSID, CDS, and TA: 1968-2007