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    • The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

    Metadata Updated: July 29, 2025

    The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) began in 1968 with a nationally representative sample of over 18,000 individuals living in 5,000 families in the United States. Information on these individuals and their descendants has been collected continuously, including data covering employment, income, wealth, expenditures, health, marriage, childbearing, child development, philanthropy, education, and numerous other topics.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2025
    Publisher National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health & Human Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier b2a0bdee-117e-48e5-ad0c-f9982e05281a
    Data First Published 2014-04-08
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-26
    Category Health
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 001:05
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 3ed9bda3-832c-40b3-a8e0-40a51f6b596a
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/panel-study-income-dynamics-psid
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:048
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 150fda8a376d098dd47aae4502573c5678c9a191ee8bdad43c0cea1bf04c8a0f
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1968-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/1968-01-01T00:00:00-05:00

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