psid {faraway}R Documentation

Panel Study of Income Dynamics subset

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

data(psid)

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.


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