This dataset has tracked the same thousands of American families for 50 years — parents, children, grandchildren. But almost nobody uses it because it is notoriously hard to work with. I wrote a beginner’s guide covering registration, variable selection, FIMS, building person IDs, and exporting a clean CSV. Includes sample Python code. Might be useful if you’ve ever wanted to work with longitudinal family data but didn’t know where to start. Disclosure: I wrote this guide.
https://medium.com/@jfoley648/the-most-interesting-dataset-in-the-world-136946347af2
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