Wednesday, March 21, 2007

For Sociology and Life Span Students

Here is a valuable site to find data for research in sociology and life span classes. The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), begun in 1968, studies a representative sample of U.S. individuals and their family units. The study emphasizes the dynamic aspects of economic and demographic behavior, but also includes other sociological and psychological measures.

The sample size has grown to more than 7,000 families. The PSID has collected information about more than 65,000 individuals spanning as much as 36 years of their lives. The study is conducted at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. The study includes a Child Development supplement.

The site includes tutorials that could be used in the classroom, a user guide, related sites of studies around the world, and updates. The PSID 2005 family, individual and family history files have been released recently been released.

Source: http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/

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