User Guide

A complete user guide was written by Martha Hill and published by Sage in 1991. This guide, The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: A User's Guide, volume 2. 1991, is available here.

A few selected chapters are available below. Additional resources are available within the documentation and on the User Guide page.

INTRODUCTION

• MONOGRAPH PURPOSE AND CONTENT
• OVERVIEW OF THE PSID
• ORIGIN OF THE PSID
• ADMINISTRATION AND FUNDING
• ILLUSTRATIVE USES OF THE PSID

STUDY DESIGN

• OVERALL DESIGN

SAMPLE DESIGN
• Sample frame
• Latino supplemental sample
• Tracking rules

DATA QUALITY

• RESPONSE RATES
• UNICON STUDY
• LILLARD-WAITE STUDY OF MARITAL HISTORIES
• OTHER EVIDENCE ON REPRESENTATIVENESS
• CURTIN, JUSTER, AND MORGAN STUDY OF WEALTH
• VALIDATION STUDY
• "SEAM" TRANSITIONS