One of the longest-running household panel surveys, ideal for studying long-term economic and demographic trends.
Detailed information on household assets, housing decisions, and labor market outcomes.
Longitudinal household survey covering income, wealth, program participation, welfare transfers, and family dynamics.
Rich information on benefit receipt (Medicaid, SNAP, TANF) makes it ideal for welfare reform research.
Detailed data on healthcare utilization, costs, and insurance coverage.
Longitudinal household design allows tracking of insurance transitions and medical expenditure over time.
Nationally representative survey on marriage, divorce, contraception, infertility, and fertility.
Contains detailed information on pregnancy intentions, birth history, and family planning — rare among public datasets.
Useful for calibrating fertility and household formation moments in structural models.
Valuable microdatasets, easy to get and organize.
Large sample size allows disaggregation by many characteristics.
Excellent for constructing empirical moments on labor force participation, wages, hours worked, etc.