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Abstract

The 2014 Child Development Supplement (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) collected data on children’s health, development, and well-being within the children’s family and neighborhood context for a nationally-representative sample of children in the U.S. CDS-2014 builds on the strengths of PSID, a genealogical study of U.S. families that began in 1968. The original CDS cohort, begun in 1997 on a cohort of children aged 0–12 years was recently completed. In 2014, CDS was relaunched with an entirely new sample covering all children in PSID households aged 0–17 years. Detailed information was collected on the same topics as in the original CDS, and the study collected time diaries, assessments of reading and math skills, and interviews with children’s primary caregivers as well as with older children themselves. All of the data are publicly available free of charge through the PSID Online Data Center. Restricted data from CDS are also available to researchers through a contract. This User Guide provides essential information to researchers planning or undertaking research using the CDS-2014 data.

Preface

The 2014 Child Development Supplement (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) was funded by Grant R01 HD052646 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Additional funding was provided through two NICHD administrative supplements (Grants R01 HD052646-06S1 and R01 HD052646- 08S1), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis’ Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. PSID is very grateful to these sponsors for their support of CDS-2014.

Contents

Abstract Preface iv Contents v Acknowledgements vi 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. THE CDS-2014 QUESTIONNAIRE, MEASURES, AND VARIABLES 4 General Principles for the CDS-2014 Questionnaire 4 Questionnaire Modules, Sections, and Measures 5 Questionnaire Description Conventions 6 Primary Caregiver Household Interview 6 Primary Caregiver Child Interview 11 Child Interview 15 Other Study Components 18 Final Data Release File Updates 20 3. THE CDS-2014 SAMPLE 22 4. THE CDS-2014 DATA FILE STRUCTURE 24 5. THE CDS-2014 WEIGHTS 27 Overview of Method to Construct CDS-2014 Child Weights 28 Method to Construct CDS-2014 Child Weights 29 Method to Construct CDS-2014 PCG Weights 35 Summary of CDS-2014 Weights 35 Recommendations for Using the CDS-2014 Weights 35 APPENDIX A. MEASUREMENT RESOURCE TABLE: COMPARISON OF CDS-2014 WITH CDS I-III . 37