DOI: 10.3886/icpsr39179.v1
title: Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID): Child Development Supplement, 2020-2021
title: Version 1

description: This catalog record includes detailed variable-level descriptions, enabling data discovery and comparison. The data are not archived at ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners (via PSID) directly for details on obtaining the data.
The Child Development Supplement (CDS) to the longitudinal survey Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) focuses on child development, and covers such topics as school progress, academic achievement and cognitive ability, social well-being, emotional well-being, and health.
CDS-2021 was designed as a two-year follow-up to a main wave of CDS conducted in 2019 in order to support research on the effects of a cohort of children aged 2-17 years in 2021 for whom prior interview data in CDS-2019 were collected just prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
The original CDS was launched in 1997 with a cohort of children aged 0-12 years, with follow-up waves in 2002 and 2007. CDS in 2014 and 2019 collected information on the next generation of PSID children aged 0-17 years in each wave. For information about these earlier data collections, see Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID): Child Development Supplement, 1997-2019.
description: Presence of Common Scales: 
"Ability in math self-concept score" Eccles, J., Wigfield, A., Harold, R. D., and Blumenfeld, P. (1993). Age and gender difference in children's self-and task perceptions during elementary school. Child Development, 64, 830-847. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1993.tb02946.x)
"Ability in reading self-concept score" Eccles, J., Wigfield, A., Harold, R. D., and Blumenfeld, P. (1993). Age and gender difference in children's self-and task perceptions during elementary school. Child Development, 64, 830-847. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1993.tb02946.x)
"Child Depression Inventory" Sitarenios, Gill and Kovacs, Maria (1999). Use of the Children's Depression Inventory. In Mark Maruish (Ed.), The use of psychological testing for treatment planning and outcomes assessment, 267-298. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
"Child web composite score" Hargittai, E., and Hsieh, Y. P. (2012). Succinct survey measures of web-use skills. Social Science Computer Review, 30(1), 95-107. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439310397146)
"PCG Aggravation in Parenting scale" Child Trends, Inc. for the JOBS Child Outcomes Study, https://www.childtrends.org/publications/the-jobs-child-outcomes-study
"PCG K-6 Distress Scale" Kessler, R.C., Andrews, G., Colpe, L.J., Hiripi, E., Mroczek, D.K., Normand, S.-L.T., Walters, E.E., and Zaslavsky, A. (2002). Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in nonspecific psychological distress. Psychological Medicine, 32(6), 959- 976. (DOI: 10.1017/S0033291702006074)
"PCG Parenting Disagreement scale" National Longitudinal Surveys (NLSY), https://www.bls.gov/nls/ and National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/nsfh/
"PCG pet attachment scale" Holcomb, R., Williams, R.C., Scott, P. (1985). The elements of attachment: Relationship maintenance and intimacy. Journal of the Delta Society, 2:28-34. (https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-23843-001)
"Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale" Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press. Revised scale used since CDS-2014. CDS 2021 User Guide provides more details.
"SDQ Externalizing Score" Goodman, R. (1997). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research note. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38, 581-586. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01545.x)
"SDQ Internalizing Score" Goodman, R. (1997). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research note. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38, 581-586. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01545.x)
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Primary Caregiver Household File, 2020
DS2: Primary Caregiver Child File, 2020
DS3: COVID-19 File, [2020]
DS4: Primary Caregiver Household File, 2021
DS5: Primary Caregiver Child File, 2021
DS6: Child File, 2021
DS7: Household Roster, 2021
DS8: Demographic File, 2021
description: The data for this collection are available on the PSID Web site.For PSID data that is currently distributed by ICPSR, see Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Series.