National Couples' Health and Time Study (NCHAT), United States, 2020-2022 (ICPSR 38417)
National Wellbeing Survey, United States, 2021 (ICPSR 38879)
National Wellbeing Survey, United States, 2022 (ICPSR 38964)
National Wellbeing Survey, United States, 2023 (ICPSR 39192)
The National Wellbeing Survey (NWS) is an annual population-based cross-sectional survey of adults aged 18 to 64 in the United States first collected in 2021. The 2023 NWS was administered online from June 23 to September 14,2023. The 2023 sample includes 7,105 respondents. The sample frame included non-institutionalized adults in the United States who ranged in age from 18 to 64 years old and who were able to read English. NWS sample participants were recruited online through Qualtrics Panels. The sample design included an oversample of rural residents; 26% of respondents (N=1,862) reside in a non-metropolitan county. Survey topics include psychosocial wellbeing, social relationships and support, participation in social activities, physical health, mental health, health behaviors, health care use, employment quality and experiences, COVID-19 experiences, socioeconomic measures, political orientation, and demographic measures. The restricted use version of the data includes geographic identifiers for states (N=51) and counties (N=1,746).
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID): Main Interview, 2021 (ICPSR 39190)
The PSID is the world's longest-running nationally representative household panel survey. With over 50 years of data on the same families and their descendants, the PSID is a cornerstone of the data infrastructure for empirically based social science research in the U.S. PSID gathers data on the family as a whole and on individuals residing within the family, emphasizing the dynamic and interactive aspects of family economics, demography, and health. PSID data were collected annually from 1968-1997 and biennially after 1997.
In the Main Interview, one person per family is interviewed on a regular basis. Information about each family member is collected, but much greater detail is obtained about the reference person and, if married/cohabitating, the spouse or long-term cohabitor. Survey content changes to reflect evolving scientific and policy priorities, although many content areas have been consistently measured since 1968. Information includes employment, income, wealth, expenditures, time use, health, dementia screener, insurance, education, marriage, childbearing, philanthropy, and numerous other topics. Additional types of PSID data are available only under a restricted contract. These include but are not limited to: geospatial data below the level of state; mortality data; Medicare claims; and educational characteristics from the National Center for Education Statistics.
With low attrition and high success in following young adults as they form their own families, the sample size has grown from roughly 5,000 families in 1968 to more than 9,000 families and 24,000 individuals by 2021. Over the course of the study, the PSID has distributed data on more than 84,000 individuals. The long panel, genealogical design, and broad content of the data offer unique opportunities to conduct generational and life-course research.
The PSID now contains thousands of inter- and intragenerational relationships over 50 years of data, including (as of the 2021 wave):
- "Paired" generational relationships, with each family in the pair providing independent interviews
- Parent-Adult Child pairs: ~4,300
- Sibling pairs: ~5,200
- Cousin pairs: ~5,400
- "Tripled" generational relationships, with all three generations providing independent interviews
- Grandparent-Parent-Adult Child triplets: ~1,000
For information about earlier data collections, see Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID): Main Interview, 1968-2015.
In 2021, the main interview was updated to include questions about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including: loss of earnings, US government stimulus payments, charitable giving, participants' exposure to COVID-19, and vaccination status.