PSID Data Quality Bibliography
Collecting and distributing high quality data in a user friendly manner is the
central focus of the PSID. Quality manifests itself on three dimensions:
accurate measurement of outcomes; appropriate editing and cleaning of the data
once it is collected; user friendly distribution of the data and
documentation.
To obtain the highest quality data possible, we are continuously reassessing
data collection methods. The most substantial recent innovation is the use of
Event History Calendars, which debut in the PSID in 2003. Randomized
experimental analysis of EHC methods has found that retrospective reports are
more accurately assessed using the EHC techniques.
The quality of the PSID data have been examined in numerous studies. Below you
will find a list of these studies addressing each topical area.
Wilhelm, Mark O. 2007.
The Quality and Comparability of Survey Data on Charitable Giving.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 36; 65-84.
Falaris, Evangelos, and Elizabeth Peters. 1998. Survey Attrition
and Schooling Choices. The Journal of Human Resources 33, no. 2:
531-54.
Bell, R.F., Lee, E.H., Stafford, F. P., Chou, C-H (under review). Event
history calendar interviewing improves the reporting of when events
happened.
Belli, R.F., Shay, W.L., & Stafford, F.P. (2001). Event history
calendars and question list surveys: A direct comparison of interviewing
methods. Public Opinion Quarterly, 65, 45-74.
Belli, R. F. (2000). Computerized event history calendar methods: Facilitating
autobiographical recall. American Statistical Association Proceedings of
the Section on Survey Research Methods (pp.471-475). Alexandria, VA:
American Statistical Association.
Belli, R. F. (1998). The structure of autobiographical memory and the event
history calendar: Potential improvements in the quality of retrospective
reports in surveys. Memory, 6, 383-406.
Gouskova, Elena, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2002.
Analysis of the Quality of the Health Data in the PSID.
Levy, Helen. 2007.
Health Insurance Data in the PSID.
Lillard, Lee, and Melissa M. Farmer. 1997. Linking Medicare and
National Survey Data. Annals of Internal Medicine 127: 691-95.
Lillard, Lee. 1995. Research on Aging Using the PSID, RAND DRU-939,
NSF/PSID. Santa Monica, CA. Notes: PSID Board Commissioned
Papers--Design Options for Next Funding Cycle.
Smith, James P. 1994. New Directions in Socioeconomic Research on Aging. Aging
and Quality of Life., Chapter 15, Pages 275-94. ed. Ronal P. Abeles.
New York, NY: Springer Publishing Co., Inc.
Achen, Alexandra C, and Frank P. Stafford. 2005.
Data Quality of Housework Hours in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics:
Who Really Does the Dishes?
Becketti, Sean, William Gould, Lee Lillard, and Finis Welch. 1988. The PSID
after Fourteen Years: an Evaluation. Journal of Labor Economics 6, no.
4: 472-92.
Bound, John, Charles Brown, Greg J. Duncan, and Willard Rodgers. 1994. Evidence
on the Validity of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Data. Journal
of Labour Economics 12, no. 3: 345-68.
Bound, John, Charles Brown, Greg J. Duncan, and Willard Rodgers.1990.
Measurement Error in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Labor Market Surveys:
Validation Study Evidence. In Panel Data and Labor Studies., 1-19. eds. J.
Hartog, G. Ridder, and J. Theeuwes. B. V. (North Holland): Elsevier Science
Publishers.
Duncan, Greg J., and Daniel H. Hill. 1989. Assessing the Quality of Household
Panel Survey Data: The Case of the PSID. Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics 7, no. 4: 441-51.
Duncan, Greg J., and Daniel H. Hill. 1985. An Investigation of the Extent and
Consequences of Measurement Error in Labor Economic Survey Data. Journal of
Labor Economics 3, no. 4: 508-22.
Duncan, Greg J., Timothy M. Smeeding, and Willard Rodgers. 1995. Household
Income Dynamics in the 1970s and 1980s. Working Paper.
Fitzgerald, John, Peter Gottschalk, and Robert Moffitt. 1998. An Analysis of the
Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the
Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The Journal of Human Resources 33,
no. 2: 300-344.
Fitzgerald, John, Peter Gottschalk, and Robert Moffitt. 1998. An Analysis of
Sample Attrition in Panel Data. The Journal of Human Resources 33,
no. 2: 251-99.
Kim, Yong-Seong and Staffore, Frank P. 2000. The
Quality of PSID Income Data in the 1990’s and Beyond
Lillard, Lee, and Constantijn W. A. Panis 1998. Panel Attrition from the Panel
Study of Income Dynamics. The Journal of Human Resources 33, no.
2: 437-57.
PSID Users' Guide Chapter
5 on Data Quality.
Ratcliffe, Caroline, et. al. 2007.
Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households:
Current Availability and Options for Improvement.
A Report in the Series Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households.
The Urban Institute; Center for Social Development Washington University in St. Louis.
Rendall, Michael S. 1997. Identifying and Misidentifying Single Mothers in the
Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The Journal of Human Resources 32, no.
3: 596-610.
Rodgers, Willard, Charles Brown, and Greg J. Duncan. 1993. Errors in Survey
Reports of Earnings, Hours Worked and Hourly Wages. Journal of the American
Statistical Association 88, no. 424: 1208-18.
Zabel, Jeffrey. 1998. An Analysis of Attrition in the Panel Study of Income
Dynamics and the Survey of Income and Program Participation with an Application
to a Model of Labor Market Behavior. The Journal of Human Resources 33,
no. 2: 479-506.
Ziliak, James P., and T. J. Kniesner. 1998. The Importance of Sample Attrition
in Life Cycle Labor Supply Estimation. The Journal of Human Resources 33,
no. 2: 507-30.
Lillard, Lee, and Linda Waite. 1990. Panel Versus Retrospective Data on Marital
Histories: Lessons from the PSID. Individuals and Families in Transition:
Understanding Change Through Longitudinal Data. editors H. V. Beaton, D. A.
Ganni, and D. T. Frankel U.S. Bureau of the Census.
PSID Users' Guide Chapter
5 on Data Quality.
Brown, Charles. 1996.
Notes on the "SEO" or "Census" Component of the PSID.
Curtin, Richard T., F. Thomas Juster, and James N. Morgan. 1989. Survey
Estimates of Wealth: An Assessment of Quality. Measurement of Savings,
Investment, and Wealth. eds. Robert Lipsey, and Helen Stone. New York: National
Bureau of Economic Research.
Edward N. Wolff
, "The Size Distribution of Wealth in the United States: A
Comparison among Recent Household Surveys,"
in James P. Smith and Robert J. Willis editors, Wealth, Work, and Health:
Innovations in Measurement in the Social Sciences, 1999, pp. 209-232.
The article has been edited for form
and style and to make it consistent with the other chapters in this book.
Juster, F. Thomas, James P. Smith, and Frank Stafford. 1999. The Measurement
and Structure of Household Wealth. Labour Economics 6: 253-75.
PSID Users' Guide Chapter
5 on Data Quality.
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