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This wiki page is intended for users of Child Development Supplement (CDS), an ongoing supplement of Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The scope of the wiki page will includes all aspects of CDS, and information on PSID that are relevant for CDS users. For comprehensive documentation on PSID, please visit psidonline.isr.umich.edu

New to CDS?

Child Development Supplement (CDS) was launched with the goal of improving the understanding of social, psychological, and economic aspects of childhood within the children's family and neighborhood context. It is embedded within the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), a longitudinal study of a nationally-representative sample of U.S. families that began in 1968. CDS collects rich information on psychological and social wellbeing, health status and behavior, family environment, education, child care, time use, sibling relationships, caregiver social and psychological resources, absent parents, future work and schooling expectations, and religiosity. Watch a video on CDS here: https://youtu.be/rPrrnWRnbJY

Original CDS

The CDS I-III (original CDS) began in 1997 with a cohort of 3,563 children from 2,394 families. Up to two children aged 0-12 years were randomly selected in each family and interviews are conducted with the children's primary caregivers (PCGs; usually the children's mother). Eligible CDS participants were descended by blood or adoption from the original 1968 PSID lineage or the 1997 PSID immigrant refresher sample. In most case, this means that the child's father or mother is the child or grandchild of an original 1968 PSID respondent. PSID conducted the second round of data collection in 2002/2003 and the third round data collection in 2007/2008.

Ongoing CDS

By 2014, all of the children in the original 1997 CDS cohort had reached adulthood, and a new generation of children had replaced them in PSID families. The on-going CDS builds on the strengths of PSID as a genealogical study of U.S. families to continue collecting information on all PSID children aged 0-17 years in this new generation, and to shift the orientation of CDS from a study of a single cohort to a study obtaining information on the childhood experiences of all chidren in PSID families in 2014 and at planned five-year intervals that will support research based on multiple cohorts of PSID children.

These new data will allow studies of health, development, and well-being in childhood; the relationship between children's characteristics and contemporaneous family decision-making and behavior; and the effects of childhood factors on subsequent social, demographic, economic, and health outcomes over the entire life course for these individuals as they are followed into the futures as part of the ongoing Core PSID. Watch a video tutorial to become familiar with the design and content of CDS-2014: https://youtu.be/7NQY1w35pnQ or read on to learn more about THE CDS-2014 SAMPLE, THE CDS-2014 QUESTIONNAIRE, and THE CDS-2014 DATA FILE STRUCTURE.

Acknowledgements

The collection of data used in this study was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under grant number R01HD052646. Acknowledgements

“Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Child Development Supplement 2014: User Guide,” Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 2017. Suggested Citation

Data Release File Updates

This is a work in progress, the CDS team is working on this.

See the Sample Page for tips on how to fill it with organized CDS information and make it available to users!

CDS wiki is based on CDS-2014 User Guide, see Help: Content.