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Panel Studies Around The World

This is a list of long-term panel data sets in different countries that could be used for cross-national comparison with the PSID.  Users interested in comparative research with the PSID should contact the appropriate project directly to obtain data regarding that particular country.  There are a few incomplete entries in the table.  We would greatly appreciate any information you would be willing to provide to help complete the table below.  Also, please let us know of any other panel studies that should be included in the table.  To send information, please e-mail PSIDHelp@isr.umich.edu Thank-you!

See also... A Guide to Longitudinal Resources (Note: this link will take you out of the PSID Web Site)

Australia Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia (HILDA)

Collected by: University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research  Years Available: 2001  Sample Description: Interviews were conducted with family members of 7,682 households, selected from 488 different neighborhood regions across Australia.  Data Contents: Income dynamics, labor market dynamics, and family dynamics.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/hilda/

Australia General Customer Survey

Collected by: The General Customer Survey (GCS) is collected by the Commonwealth; Department of Family and Community Services in Australia (FaCS)  Years Available: 2000, 2001 and 2002. Data has currently been released for most of 2000 cohort, and by the end of 2003, all of the 2000 and most of 2001 cohorts will be available.  Sample Description: A representative sample of Family and Community Services customers (income support recipients) taken from administrative data. Sample broken stratified by payment type then several other categories such as gender, etc.  Data Contents: Provides data about social security and family support recipients, such as demographic, family and household, education, children and child care, employment, retirement, disability and caring, use of community and emergency services, income, assets and expenditure and social participation. (Some topics may not be covered in all waves or cohorts)  Notes: The data is confidential in some instances hence it isn't provided online. Organizations can apply for access and be provided with access or a deconfidentialized dataset on request. Currently, several social researchers are utilizing their data, along with internal Dept of Family and Community Services users. Next cohort will be 2004 (started biennial recruitment).  Site Address: For a brief overview, please look at http://www.facs.gov.au/facs_ar2000/part3/social.htm#FaCS%20General%20Customer Interested parties can contact: helpdesk.gcs@facs.gov.au for more information.

Belgium Belgian Socio-economic Panel (SEP)

Collected by: Concept, data processing and analysis by Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp (UFSIA). Fieldwork by Dimarso (Gallup Belgium), Brussels  Years Available: 1985, 1988, 1992, 1997  Sample Description: Sample is representative of Belgian households and individuals. 6471 in 1985, 3800 in1988, 3800 in 1992 (including new sample of 900 households), 4632 households in 1997 (including new sample of 2375 households)  Data Contents: Demographic characteristics, activity status, employment situation, monthly (net) income of all household members, household wealth, housing situation, life-style indicators, subjective income evaluation.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.ufsia.ac.be/CSB/sep_nl.htm

Canada Survey of Labor Income Dynamics (SLID)

Collected by: Statistics Canada  Years Available: 1993-2000  Sample Description: The Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics (SLID) is a longitudinal household survey designed to follow the same respondents for several years. The sample is approximately 35,000 households located throughout all ten provinces.  Data Contents: The survey gathers information on the economic well-being of individuals and families, and the changes that influence this well-being. SLID also collects information about other related topics such as education and disabilities.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.statcan.ca/english/survey/household/dynamic/income.htm

China Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS)

Collected by: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)  Years Available: 1998-2000  Sample Description: The largest sample size of centenarians and nonagenarians as compared to any other studies focusing on elders in the world, CLHLS was conducted among the most elderly population in counties and cities of 22 provences of China with the general goal of shedding light on the determinants of healthy human longevity and oldest-old mortality.  Data Contents: Data are provided on the health, socioeconomic characteristics, family, lifestyle, and demographic profile of this aged population.  Notes: NACDA seeks to contribute to the intellectual vitality of the gerontological sciences.  Site Address: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA/archive.html

France French Household Panel

Collected by: ADEPS, Equipe de recherche en Analyse Dynamique des Effets des Politiques Sociales and Direction Régionale en Lorraine de l'Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE)  Years Available: 1985-1990  Sample Description: The reference population is anyone living in Lorraine, except persons living in a collective household. 715 households at the baseline, increased to 2092 in the second wave.  Data Contents: Standard topics : Household composition and demographics, housing, incomes, education, employment, biography, life events. Special topics in a single wave: housing background, subjective indicators (poverty), difficulty to pay some expenditures, economic behavior after a large decrease in incomes, beneficiary of the guaranteed minimum income, project to create a self-employed activity, non-monetary incomes, household assets, duration and cost of nursing, services granted to elderly persons, debts, intra-family monetary transfers.  Notes: Unknown whether data collection is ongoing.  Site Address: http://www.ceps.lu/paco/pacofrpa.htm

Hungary Hungarian Household Panel

Collected by: Social Research Informatics Centre (TARKI), Sociology Department of Budapest University of Economics, Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH)  Years Available: 1992-1996  Sample Description: The reference population is Hungarian non-institutional households. 2600 households.  Data Contents: Social status, wealth, income, economic and financial strategies of Hungarian households; demographic and employment histories (changes in labor market position) of household members.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.tarki.hu/ http://www.ceps.lu/paco/pacohupa.htm

Indonesia Indonesia Family Life Survey

Collected by: RAND in collaboration with the Demographic Institute of the University of Indonesia, the Population Studies Center of Gadjah Mada University, University of California--Los Angeles, and Michigan State University  Years Available: 1993/94, 1997/98, 2000  Sample Description: The sample is representative of about 83% of the Indonesian population and contains over 30,000 individuals living in 13 of the 26 provinces in the country. In 1993, 7,224 households were interviewed, and over 7,700 households in 2000  Data Contents: The survey contains a wealth of information collected at the individual and household levels, including multiple indicators of economic well-being; education, migration, and labor market outcomes; marriage fertility, and contraceptive use; health status, use of health care, and health insurance; relationships among coresident and non-coresident family members; processes underlying household decision-making; transfers among family members and inter-generational mobility; and participation in community activities.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.rand.org/FLS/IFLS/

Italy Indagine Longitudinale sulle Famiglie Italiane - Longitudinal Survey of Italian Households

Collected by: Consortium of Italian Universities, University of Trento (Department of Sociology and Social Research), University of Milan-Bicocca (Department of Sociology and Social Research) and University of Bologna (Department of Education)  Years Available: 1997-2003  Sample Description: The unit of analysis selected for the Survey is the household, and the reference population is the set of households resident on Italian territory and registered at municipal registry offices at the end of 1996. The households to be interviewed were selected by means of a two-stage stratified sampling procedure: 8,104 Italian municipalities were assumed as primary sampling units and assigned to 42 strata defined by two variables: region, and type of municipality (metropolitan, adjoining, other). By virtue of their self-representative character, the twelve metropolitan municipalities were included in the sample with probability equal to 1. Extracted from each of the remaining 30 strata was a random sample of municipalities with probabilities proportional to the number of residents. A total of 265 municipalities were selected following this procedure.  Data Contents: The ILFI survey has been designed to achieve two main aims. The first is essentially descriptive in character and consists in the gathering of information on the current situation (at the time of the interview) of a broad representative sample of Italian families: composition, sources and levels of income, social and demographic features of their members. The second aim of the Survey centers on the study of social change and consists in the gathering of dynamic information on each adult member (i.e. aged over 18) of each household surveyed. More specifically, the intention is to reconstruct the 'life history' of each member of each household - from the moment of birth to the end of the fifth survey wave - in relation to the following aspects: movements (geographical or residential mobility), education and vocational training (school and training career), work (work career), social origins, and family (marriages or cohabitations and births or adoptions of children).  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.sociologiadip.unimib.it/ilfi/eng/index.html

Japan Japan Panel Study on Consumers (JPSC)

Collected by: The Institute for Research on Household Economics, Tokyo, Japan  Years Available: 1994-2000  Sample Description: National representative sample of 1,500 women aged 24 to 34 years old in 1993 (Cohort A). In 1997, 500 women were added aged 24-27 (Cohort B).  Data Contents: Family composition, labor market behavior, income, consumption, savings, assets, liabilities, housing, consumer durables, household management, time use, satisfaction.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.kakeiken.or.jp/

Korea Korea Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS)

Collected by: Employment Research Center, Korea Labor Institute  Years Available: 1998-2001  Sample Description: 5,000 households and their members from 7 metropolitan cities and urban areas in 8 provinces.  Data Contents: Labor market dynamics and family economy, schooling and labor market transitions, working conditions and age, childcare and investment in education, schooling history, socioeconomic background, family economy.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.kli.re.kr/klips

Luxembourg Panel Socio-Economique "Liewen zu Lëtzebuerg" (PSELL)

Collected by: CEPS/INSTEAD: A Centre for Socio-Economic Research  Years Available: 1985-  Sample Description: PSELL I (1985-1994) was based on a representative sample of 2,012 households and 6,110 individuals; PSELL II (1994-) is based on a representative sample of 2,978 households and 8,232 individuals.  Data Contents: Housing, family composition, Dwelling, consumer durables, the household's "general" budget management and associated difficulties, measurement of poverty, for example multi-deprivation and a subjective approach to the phenomenon.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.ceps.lu/psell/pselpres.htm

Mexico Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS)

Collected by: Department of Economics at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) and the Division of Economics at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. (CIDE).  Years Available: 2001 and 2004  Sample Description: The MxFLS will be composed of data on households and their communities gathered in two separate points in time, 2001 (MxFLS1) and 2004 (MxFLS2), with an approximate baseline sample of 8,000 households in different localities.  Data Contents: Income, expenditure, wealth, health, nutrition, fertility, prenatal care, education, employment, migration, victimization, health and educational facilities in the community, intra-household allocation and data linking.  Notes:   Site Address: --

Netherlands Dutch Socio-Economic Panel (ISEP)

Collected by: Statistics Netherlands, Voorburg, the Netherlands  Years Available: 1984-1997  Sample Description: All household members aged sixteen or over are periodically questioned about topics concerning the socio-economic situation of the persons in the household. 5,000 households  Data Contents: Education, income, assets, accommodation, self-reported measures of well-being, and the possession of durable goods.  Notes:   Site Address: http://center.uvt.nl/research/facilities/sep.html

Poland Polish Household Panel (PHP)

Collected by: Department of Economics, Warsaw University  Years Available: 1987-1990  Sample Description: The reference population is persons living in private households, excluding police officers, military personnel and members of the 'nomenklatura.'  Data Contents: Household composition and demographic characteristics of each individual, household incomes, individual incomes, labor force variables.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.ceps.lu/paco/pacopopa.htm

Russia Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS)

Collected by: Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina  Years Available: 1992-  Sample Description: The RLMS is a household-based survey designed to measure the effects of Russian reforms on the economic well-being of households and individuals. 7,200 households  Data Contents: Individual health and dietary intake; measurement of expenditures and service utilization; and community-level data, including region-specific prices and community infrastructure.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/rlms/home.html

South Africa KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (KIDS)

Collected by: Collaborators: University of Natal-Durban, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Data Research Africa  Years Available: 1993, 1998  Sample Description: The data for the project is based on a re-survey of approximately 1400 households from 70 rural and urban communities in Kwazulu-Natal province, the largest of South Africa's 9 provinces. The households were first surveyed in 1993, and the same households were re-surveyed between March and May of 1998.  Data Contents: The research will inform a wide number of policy debates in South Africa on the impacts of changes in the Child Maintenance Grants, the design of Old Age Pensions, the level of government investment in education, the efficacy of gender-targeting of interventions, and ways in which the government can foster social capital and self-help development initiatives.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/themes/mp17/safkzn2.htm

Sweden The Swedish Panel Study Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS)

Collected by: Department of Economics, Gothenburg University  Years Available: 1984-  Sample Description: Residents in Sweden aged 18-74 not living in institutions. Over 2,000 individuals interviewed in 1984.  Data Contents: Family formation; child-care; housing; market work; incomes and wealth; tax reform (1993); willingness to pay for a good environment ( 1996); local taxes, public services, and activities in the black economy (1998).  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.nek.uu.se/faculty/klevmark/hus.htm

Switzerland Swiss Household Panel (SHP)

Collected by: SHP-Team at the University of Neuchâtel in collaboration with the survey institute M.I.S. Trend in Lausanne (Switzerland)  Years Available: 1999-  Sample Description: National representative sample of private households in Switzerland. In 1999 (first wave), CATI interviews were conducted with 5,074 households and 7,799 individual persons.  Data Contents: Household level: household organization, housing, income, family life. Individual level: life events, family issues, health, social origin, education, employment, income, network, religion, leisure, media, politics and values, and personal satisfaction.  Notes: At least five waves 1999-2003.  Site Address: http://www.swisspanel.ch/

Taiwan Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) (PDF file)

Collected by: Institute of Economics, Institute of Sociology and Office of Survey Research of Academia Sinica  Years Available: 1999-  Sample Description: The sample of the first wave consists of a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 36-45. In the second wave, implemented in 2000, a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 46-65 was added.  Data Contents: Investigate special features of the Chinese family including educational experience, work experience, interaction among family members, family resource allocation, living arrangements and power division among family members.  Notes:   Site Address: http://psfd.sinica.edu.tw/index_e.htm

United Kingdom European Community Household Panel Study (ECHP)

Collected by: The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)  Years Available: 1994-1996  Sample Description: The first real comparative household panel study released covering European Union Member States. The sampling consists of individual and household level data and is longitudinal.  Data Contents: It is specifically designed to investigate policy related issues such as migration, housing, income, economic activity, consumption, social relations, education and health. Data are available to LSE members only.  Notes:   Site Address: http://forum.europa.eu.int/irc/dsis/echpanel/info/data/information.html

United Kingdom British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)

Collected by: Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex  Years Available: 1991-  Sample Description: National representative sample of 5,000 households.  Data Contents: Demographic and household characteristics, household organization, labor market, health, education, housing and consumption, income, social and political values.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/ulsc/bhps/

United States Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

Collected by: The Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan  Years Available: 1992-  Sample Description: The HRS began with two separate studies: the original HRS cohort born 1931-41 first interviewed in 1992 (at 51-61 years of age), and the AHEAD cohort born before 1923 first interviewed in 1993 (ages 70 and above). Spouses were included regardless of age. The studies were merged in the 1998 wave and combined with new respondents born 1924-30 and 1942-47, to become a complete panel of the population over age 50, with over 21,000 participants. In 2004, a new cohort of early boomers born 1948-53 will be added. All cohorts were drawn as nationally representative samples, with over-samples of African-Americans and Hispanic Americans.  Data Contents: Income and employment, income and wealth, health conditions, health status, health insurance coverage, intergenerational transfers, family structure, and a set of expectations expressed as probability scales.  Notes: A list of datasets with a design similar to HRS is forthcoming. Contact HRS at hrsquest@isr.umich.edu for inquiries.  Site Address: http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww/

United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

Collected by: Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan  Years Available: 1968-  Sample Description: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), is a longitudinal study of a representative sample of U.S. individuals and the family units in which they reside. Sample size has grown from 4,800 in 1968 to 6,434 in 1999.  Data Contents: Core topics: Income sources and amounts, poverty status, public assistance in the form of food or housing, other financial matters (e.g., taxes, inter-household transfers), family structure and demographic measures, labor market work, housework time, housing, geographic mobility, socio-economic background, and health. Other supplemental topics: housing and neighborhood characteristics, achievement motivation, estimating risk tolerance, child care, child support, and child development, job training and job acquisition, retirement plans, health, kinship, wealth, education, military combat experience, risk tolerance, immigration history, and time use.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid/index.html

United States National Longitudinal Survey (NLS)

Collected by: Census Bureau and the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) at Ohio State University  Years Available: 1966-  Sample Description: The first set of surveys, initiated in 1966, consisted of four cohorts. These four groups are referred to as the "older men," "mature women," "young men," and "young women" cohorts of the NLS, and are known collectively as the "original cohorts." In 1979, a longitudinal study of a cohort of young men and women aged 14 to 22 was begun. This sample of youth was called the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). In 1986, the NLSY79 was expanded to include surveys of the children born to women in that cohort and called the NLSY79 Children. In 1997, the NLS program was again expanded with a new cohort of young people aged 12 to 16 as of December 31, 1996. This new cohort is the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97).  Data Contents: Surveys include data about a wide range of events such as schooling and career transitions, marriage and fertility, training investments, child-care usage, and drug and alcohol use. The depth and breadth of each survey allow for analysis of an expansive variety of topics such as the transition from school to work, job mobility, youth unemployment, educational attainment and the returns to education, welfare recipiency, the impact of training, and retirement decisions.  Notes: National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Child and Young Adult Survey National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women http://www.bls.gov.nls/home.htm  Site Address: http://www.bls.gov/nls/

West Germany Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP)/German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP)

Collected by: DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research  Years Available: 1984-  Sample Description: The GSOEP is a wide-ranging representative longitudinal study of private households. It provides information on all household members, consisting of Germans living in the old and new German states, foreigners, and recent immigrants to Germany. In 1998, there were more than 6,600 households, and more than 12,700 persons sampled.  Data Contents: Household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators.  Notes:   Site Address: http://www.diw.de/soep/

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