Final release data from TAS-2021 are now available in the PSID Data Center, the CDS-TAS Data Center, and zip packages. The TAS-2021 sample includes 2,362 young adults ages 18-28 years in PSID families. An updated User Guide, Questionnaire, and Codebook are also available on the documentation page.

Final releases of TAS-2021 restricted data files will be available soon under restricted data contract. The updated files include IPEDS School Identifiers, College Major, Criminal Justice Exposure, Ethnicity, Gender Identity, and Urbanicity. Information about how to apply is available here.

The Summer Workshop covers the content and design of PSID & its supplements and provides hands-on lab sessions to construct analytic data files. Some stipend support will be available to students and junior faculty.
*** Applications are due April 15th, 2024 ***

The PSID Workshop will take place on April 17th, 2024 from 8am-12pm. We will detail the design of the PSID and demonstrate the structure of publicly available data files. Register through the PAA portal. Workshop registration fees can be reimbursed by filling out this short application.

Early release data collected from PSID families from March-December 2023 on mortgage distress, housing, food security, wealth, COVID-19 & more have been released. The data file consists of a balanced panel of 8,392 families active in the PSID in both 2021 and 2023. The ZIP file contains 1 SAS data file and summary documentation. These data are preliminary, un-imputed, and some values will change for the final data release.

Since 2009, this series obtains information on foreclosure, falling behind on payments, mortgage modification, and expectations about payment difficulties. Of the 31.2% of 2023 families with a first mortgage, 2.7% are behind on mortgage payments, down from 3.5% in 2021.

The USDA-ERS Household Food Security Survey Module was collected from 1999-2003, and again starting in 2015. In 2023, 21.6% of families reported that ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ the food they had just didn’t last and they did not have money to get more food, which has risen from 18.3% in 2021.

PSID continued to ask families about COVID-19 during 2023. Nearly 50% of reference persons reported contracting the COVID-19 virus, with almost 15% reporting having it two or more times. Of the 72% of reference persons who reported receiving a vaccination, over 90% reported receiving more than one.