Stata code to harmonize data from seven household panel surveys.
Current version: CPF ver. 1.52 (13.10.2023)
Info at www.cpfdata.com.
Unpack the entire folder structure to “11_CPF_in_syntax”.
The Comparative Panel File (CPF) is an open science project to harmonise the world’s major and longest-running household panel surveys from seven countries: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), Great Britain (BHPS and UKHLS), Korea (KLIPS), Russia (RLMS), Switzerland (SHP), and the United States (PSID). The project aims to support the social science community in the analysis of comparative life course data. The project is designed as an open-science platform for cooperation in the development of the code. The code integrates individual and household panel data from all seven surveys into a harmonised dataset.
Project's website: www.cpfdata.com
Forum: www.cpfdata.com/forum
GitHub: www.github.com/cpfdata
OSF: www.osf.io/h3yxq
CPF is managed by Konrad Turek and Matthijs Kalmijn at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW) and Thomas Leopold at the University of Cologne. The CPF's code and online platform were designed and developed by Konrad Turek.
- Read the Manual.
- Download CPF-Code from the Github/OSF/www (all sources are synchronized). Copy/unpack the entire folder structure with CPF-do-files to "11_CPF_in_syntax". Or simply rename the un-packed "CPF-Code-main" as "11_CPF_in_syntax".
- Run "1_Folder_setup.do" according to instruction in the do-file.
- Copy the original input datafiles (e.g. from SOEP) to specific folders (e.g. "C:\CPF\02_Country_Data_Origin\06_SOEP\data").
- Go to "2_CPF_Main__Fill_and_run.do" and follow instructions regarding the worfklows.