R Dataset / Package Ecdat / PSID

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the PSID data set which pertains to Panel Survey of Income Dynamics . The PSID data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the PSID data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("PSID"). This will load the data into a variable called PSID. If R says the PSID data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the PSID R data set. The size of this file is about 172,176 bytes.

Panel Survey of Income Dynamics

Description

a cross-section from 1993

number of observations : 4856

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(PSID)

Format

A dataframe containing :

intnum: 1968 interview number
persnum: person number
age: age of individual
educatn: highest grade completed
earnings: total labor income
hours: annual work hours
kids: live births to this individual
married: last known marital status (married, never married, windowed, divorced, separated, NA/DF, no histories)

Source

Panel Survey of Income Dynamics.

References

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge, pp. 295–300.

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