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Welcome to the CDS-TAS User Guide Wiki

This is the repository for user guides and related documentation for all waves of the PSID Child Development Supplement and PSID Transition into Adulthood Supplement. Contents may be saved in whole or in part to a PDF document.

What are the PSID Child Development Supplement (CDS) and PSID Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS)?

The PSID Child Development Supplement (CDS) and Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS) are longitudinal, multicohort studies to support research on the well-being of US children and young adults over historical and developmental time in family, school, and neighborhood context.

What is the Panel Study of Income Dynamics?

CDS and TAS are embedded in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the world’s longest-running nationally representative household panel survey. With over 50 years of information collected from the same families and their descendants, PSID is a cornerstone of the US data infrastructure for empirically based social science research.

Annually between 1968 and 1997 and biennially since then, PSID has collected data on individuals and families that emphasize the dynamic and interactive aspects of family economics, demography, and health. When paired with CDS and TAS, the design and content of PSID enable research on the intergenerational influence of family on child and young adult outcomes and on how childhood and young adulthood shape later health and well-being.

Are you new to CDS or TAS?

Visit the Getting Started page at the CDS-TAS Data Center for a list of resources that provide a general introduction to CDS and TAS.

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 children 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

This is a work in progress, the CDS team is constantly updating to make the data as easily accessible as possible.

Final Data Release File Updates

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.