Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Construction and Evaluation of the Longitudinal Sample Weights 2011
Year: 2013
Type: report
Abstract: This document describes the construction of the 2011 Core/Immigrant individual and family longitudinal sample weights for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and compares the associated PSID weighted estimates of population distributions on key estimates to those obtained from the 2011 Current Population Survey. The PSID Sample and Following Strategy in 2011PSID interviewed 8,907 families in 2011.All of these families are members of the Core or the Immigrant samples 1 .In 2011, the following rule was the same as in the prior 2009 wave 2 .Specifically, sample persons who participated in the previous wave survey were followed.Additionally, the PSID attempted to obtain an interview with sample individuals who did not respond in the prior wave (2009 survey year), but responded in the wave before the prior wave (2007 survey year).1 The Core sample is the combination of two samples: an area probability sample of households selected from the Survey Research Center 1960 National Sample (SRC) and a subsample of families interviewed in 1967 by the Bureau of the Census for the Office of Economic Opportunity (SEO).The respondents from the Core sample have been interviewed since 1968.In 1997 and 1999 a sample of the post-1968 immigrants was added.Information on the immigrant sample is available under the column "Other Documentation" for years 1997 and 1999 at the following url: http://simba.isr.umich.edu/Zips/ZipMain.aspx.2 For more detail on the following rules in 1993-2005 survey years see Table 1 in Gouskova et al. (2008) (http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/data/weights/Long-weights-doc.pdf) 3 Note, that some characteristics are not strictly comparable between the two surveys.For example, in the PSID race is not asked for every household member while in the CPS it is.To calculate proportions of black and non-black individuals in the PSID data, individual race was imputed as equivalent to the race of the family head.Second, the family income measure in the PSID is not directly comparable to the CPS household income measure due to the difference in definition of family unit in PSID and household unit in CPS.
Institution: University of Michigan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4409046686