Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children

DESCRIPTION: The Intergenerational Panel Study of Parents and Children is a 31-year panel study that began in 1962 and extends through 1993. The families participating in the study were chosen to represent white couples in the Detroit metropolitan area who had just given birth to their first, second, or fourth child in 1961. The resulting longitudinal study encompasses eight waves of data collected from mothers across the entire span of their offspring's childhood. Included are demographic, social, and economic information about the parental family, information about the attitudes, values, and behavior of both the mother and the father, and information about the mother's desires and expectations for her child's education, career attainments, and marriage. The collection also offers three waves of interview data collected from the children at ages 18 through 23. These data describe the young adults' attitudes and values, their expectations for school, work, marriage, and childbearing, and their perceptions of their parents' willingness to be of assistance to them. Life history calendar files for 1985 and 1993 detail the young adults' periods of cohabitation, marriage, separation, divorce, childbearing, living arrangements, education, paid employment, and military service.

CODEBOOKS: Codebooks for all waves and Child Life History Calendars are available on the local area network (T:\Public\Data\IPSPC), or for download in pdf format through the ICPSR website under Downloads.

DATA: Data are available for all waves and Child Life History Calendars for download through the ICPSR website under Downloads.

LIST OF FREQUENCIES : Frequencies are available for all variables and waves in the codebooks.

WEBLINKS: http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/09902.xml