🆔 A unique ID 📊 A US study

PSID

9.6

A long study that follows US families for many years to collect income, health, and social information

proper noun
/piː ɛs aɪ diː/

Jargon

: PSID

According to the PSID, many families have experienced significant changes in their financial stability over the years.

Examples

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, or PSID, has been collecting valuable data about American households since 1968.
And you can get the income statement and aggregate version from the PSID, the consumer expenditure survey, and so on.
A secondary data analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Child Development Supplement (CDS) was used in this study.

Academic text (2012)
The PSID started in 1968 and is an ongoing, nationally representative prospective cohort study of the US population conducted by the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

Academic text (2012)
Researchers rely on the PSID for comprehensive insights into the economic and social trends within the US.

Surface Forms

PSID main

Morphology

PSID = P + S + I + D

The term is an acronym (Panel Study of Income Dynamics); the initial letters do not transparently indicate the full name or meaning to learners unfamiliar with the study.

Etymology

PSID is the name of a long US survey and stands for Panel Study of Income Dynamics, where 'panel' means 'group' and 'income' means 'money', so the PSID is a study that follows the same families over many years to track changes in money, health, and work.