Tracing the Health Consequences of Family Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, 2018-2021 (ICPSR 39319)
Version Date: Apr 15, 2025 View help for published
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Emily E. Wiemers, Syracuse University
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39319.v1
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This study examines experiences of health and economic challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic across generations of American families and how families responded to these challenges. To do so requires knowledge of each family member's characteristics and the contexts they experienced over the pandemic. Accordingly, researchers are creating a unique dataset that enhances the rich population-representative panel data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) by linking comprehensive contextual data to multiple life domains of each generation.
Research to date has investigated the health, economic, and wellbeing impacts of essential work on couples using employment, occupation, and industry data from PSID. For additional information and code, see Measuring Essential/Frontline Work Using PSID (ICPSR 199304).
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Families in the United States.
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Study data is derived from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Family File in 2019 and 2021, which contains information about participants' and their spouses' employment status, industry, occupation, and unemployment benefits received in the previous year. Additional information about the source and/or creation method for each variable, plus code used in creating this dataset, is available in Measuring Essential/Frontline Work Using PSID.
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