Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Logo of the University of Michigan, which administers the study | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1968 |
| Jurisdiction | United States |
| Headquarters | Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Employees | ≈ 18,000 individuals in 5,000+ families (as of 2020) |
| Parent agency | University of Michigan Funded by National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health |
| Website | psidonline.isr.umich.edu |
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a longitudinal panel survey of American families, conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.
The PSID measures economic, social, and health factors over the life course of families over multiple generations. Data have been collected from the same families and their descendants since 1968. It has been claimed that it is the world’s longest running household panel survey, and more than 7,600 peer-reviewed publications have been based on PSID data.
As of 2025, Thomas Crossley of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research is the director of PSID.