Assessing the Quality of Household Panel Data: The Case of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
家庭面板数据质量评估:以收入动态面板研究为例
Evidence from a number of methodological studies are used to assess the overall quality of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Despite substantial cumulative non-response over the nearly two decades spanned by the study, the sample is found to maintain its representation of the nonimmigrant population of the United States. The most important reasons for this result are that the study's following rules insure that the sample replaces itself in the same manner…