{"id":41620,"date":"2026-06-30T22:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/free-browser-tool-to-explore-psid-shelf-50-years-of-longitudinal-family-data-no-stata-require\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:27:15","slug":"free-browser-tool-to-explore-psid-shelf-50-years-of-longitudinal-family-data-no-stata-require","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/free-browser-tool-to-explore-psid-shelf-50-years-of-longitudinal-family-data-no-stata-require\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Browser Tool To Explore PSID-SHELF: 50 Years Of Longitudinal Family Data, No Stata Require"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>The PSID has tracked the same American families since 1968 across income,<\/p>\n<p>health, housing, wealth, education, and depression. It&#8217;s one of the most<\/p>\n<p>powerful public datasets in social science, but the raw files arrive with no<\/p>\n<p>meaningful column names and require a codebook crosswalk just to understand<\/p>\n<p>what you have.<\/p>\n<p>PSID-SHELF (from U-Michigan) reorganized the data into 34 topic areas with<\/p>\n<p>real variable names. There&#8217;s now a browser app built on top of it \u2014 search<\/p>\n<p>across all 34 topics in plain English and see sample data immediately. No<\/p>\n<p>download, no account, no setup. Link in comments.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a local track that produces 34 clean CSVs from your own SHELF<\/p>\n<p>download, ready for pandas, R, or Excel.<\/p>\n<p>Happy to answer questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Snoo752\"> \/u\/Snoo752 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1uk0jd6\/free_browser_tool_to_explore_psidshelf_50_years\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1uk0jd6\/free_browser_tool_to_explore_psidshelf_50_years\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41620 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41620' data-nonce='9de69db8d5' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41620 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41620 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PSID has tracked the same American families since 1968 across income, health, housing, wealth, education, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}