Year: 2019
Type: report
Abstract: This document describes the construction of the 2017 Core/Immigrant individual and family longitudinal sample weights for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).This technical report is organized in four sections.Section I provides an overview of the PSID sample, defines PSID sample and non-sample persons and explains the following rules.Section II outlines the methodology for computing the 2017 longitudinal individual and family weights.The report concludes in Section III with a descriptive analysis of the weights, including comparisons of distributions of U.S. socioeconomic characteristics using weighted estimates from the Current Population Survey (CPS), American Community Survey (ACS) and PSID.The weighting methodology and descriptive analysis of the weights for 2017 New Immigrant Supplement sample is not included in this document. I. The PSID Sample and Following Strategy in 2017The 2017 PSID panel is based on the dynamic, longitudinal follow-up of individuals and their families originally identified in a combination of four probability samples of U.S. households: the Survey Research Center 1960 National Sample (SRC), a subsample of families interviewed in 1967 by the Bureau of the Census for the Office of Economic Opportunity (SEO) (McGonagle and Schoeni, 2006), the 1997 PSID Immigrant Supplement (Heeringa and Connor, 1998), and the 2017 PSID New Immigrant Supplement.Sample persons and their descendents identified in the baseline SRC and SEO samples (termed the PSID "Core" in many publications) have been interviewed since 1968 1 .In 1997 and 1999 the baseline sample of the post-1968 immigrants was added and these immigrant sample persons have been followed continuously since the late 90s.More detailed information on the PSID 1968the PSID and 1997the PSID /1999 Immigrant samples is available from the PSID website, (psid.org).In 2017 the baseline sample of the post-1997 immigrants was added to the PSID panel.More detailed information on the 2017 New Immigrant sample will be available from the PSID website and is not covered by this document.Under the "dynamic" sample follow-up design, PSID interviewed 9,155 non-new-immigrant families in 2017.Included in these families are 24,821 individuals: 17,643 PSID "sample persons" (see Table 1) and 7,178 "non-sample" spouses and family members. 1 PSID has developed a measure of cumulative response rates for the original sample of persons interviewed in the initial 1968 wave.It estimates the proportion of the surviving members of the original 1968 census who were interviewed at each wave of data collection.The cumulative response rate report is available from the PSID website (see Heeringa et al., 2018).
Authors: Wen Chang, Raphael Nishimura, Steven G. Heeringa, Katherine McGonagle, David Johnson
Institution: University of Michigan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4409078257