The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, CROSS-NATIONAL EQUIVALENT FILE RELEASE 16 (Waves 1-16)

The HILDA-CNEF dataset is a subset of HILDA data developed specifically for use as part of the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF). The CNEF is managed by Ohio State University, USA (https://cnef.ehe.osu.edu/). The CNEF contains equivalently defined variables for the following panel studies: (1) Panel Study of Income Dynamics (USA), (2) German Socio-Economic Panel, (3) British Household Panel Study, (4) Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, (5) The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, (6) Swiss Household Panel, (7) Korea Labour and Income Panel Study, and (8) The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey-Higher School of Economics. The datasets are designed to allow cross-national researchers with less experience in panel data analysis to have access to a simplified version of these panel data, while providing experienced panel data users with guidelines for formulating equivalent variables across countries. Most importantly, the CNEF provides a set of constructed variables (for example, pre-and post-government income and international household equivalence weights) that are not directly available in the original datasets. Access policies for the datasets within the CNEF vary depending upon the administrative requirements of the individual surveys from which the datasets are taken. The Department of Social Services is only responsible for and can only approve and provide access to the HILDA-CNEF. Access to the HILDA-CNEF data is obtained by applying via the HILDA-CNEF Dataverse (no charge applies for this application). If approved, the HILDA-CNEF data will be made available for download directly from the HILDA-CNEF Dataverse. Please note that if the application is approved, DSS will provide the Authorised User’s details to the CNEF team at Ohio State University. Details on how to order all other CNEF data can be viewed on the Ohio State University CNEF website: http://cnef.ehe.osu.edu/>or Tel: [phone]. While at the time of publication there is no charge for the CNEF data files, Ohio State University requests a donation of US$125 which includes the set of CDs with all of the CNEF datasets. It is advisable to check this at the time of ordering the CDs.