Secondary Data Analysis of the Socio-Economic Panel Study and the Cross-National Equivalent File, 2016-2020

The data comprises three of the Cross-National Equivalent Files. The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1970-2013) ; the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (1984-2015) and the UKHLS (2009-2014) and the British Household Panel Study (1991-2009). The following variables were extracted: personal identifier (x11101LL), household identifier (x11102), survey year (year), sex (d11101LL), marital status (d11104), income (i11110), employment status (e11101), hour worked (e11101), education (d11108/9), partner identifier (d11105), household size (d11106) and number of children (d11107). The data came in a harmonized form from the data providers. For the papers on Germany, in addition to the variables described above, life satisfaction, work hour flexibility, caregiving, housework hours, widowhood status and carer ID were further extracted from the original German Socio-Economic Panel Study.