Description

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), begun in 1968, is a longitudinal study of a representative sample of U.S. individuals. The study is conducted at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan and is still continuing. The data represents a small subset of the total data.

Usage

Format

A data frame with 1661 observations on the following 6 variables.

age

age in 1968

educ

years of education

sex

sex of individual, F or M

income

annual income in dollars

year

calendar year

person

ID number for individual

Source

Martha S. Hill, The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: A User's Guide, Sage Publications, 1992,Newbury Park, CA.