Early release data collected from PSID families from March-December 2025 on mortgage distress, housing, wealth, and more have been released. The data file consists of a balanced panel of 8,345 families active in the PSID in both 2023 and 2025. The ZIP file contains 1 SAS data file and summary documentation. These data are preliminary, un-imputed, and some values will change for the final data release.

Attending PAA 2026 in St. Louis? The PSID Workshop will take place on Wednesday, May 6th from 9am-2pm. We will detail the design of the PSID and its supplemental studies and demonstrate the structure of publicly available data files through a series of lectures and labs. Register for the workshop through the PAA portal with your PAA conference registration.

Save the date! The in-person PSID Summer Institute will be held June 15th-19th, 2026 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Activities will be divided between lecture sessions, discussions, and hands-on labs. The ICPSR application portal opens in February and applications will be accepted through April 15th, 2026. Stipend support will be available to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows .

This American Sociological Association webinar focuses on best practices in data collection and management, such as obtaining buy-in, reducing non-response, collecting, managing and sharing data. With Noura Insolera, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and Dessislava Kirilova, Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse University.

In each main interview since 2005, the PSID asked respondents who were either age 65 or older or receiving Medicare to provide their Medicare number and consent to link to their Medicare and Medicaid records. We are in the process of updating CMS data to the most recent years available, and they will be ready to request shortly. More information on PSID-CMS data linkages and the NIA Data LINKAGE Program are available here.