Problem when updating do file to include 2019 PSID

[Ethan]

Hi friends, first, thank you so much for this project! It saves me a lot of time.
I am trying to update the us_01_3_Get_vars.do file to include variables from the most recent PSID 2019 wave. However, when it comes to variable eduyBH, I encountered an error:

. combvars eduyBH , list(“[75]V4093 [76]V4684 [77]V5608 [78]V6157 [79]V6754 [80]V7387 [81]V8039 [82]V8663 [83]V9349 [84]V10996 [91]V20198 [92]V21504 [93]V23333 [94]ER4158 [95]ER6998 [96]ER9249 [97]ER12222 [99]ER16516 [01]ER20457 [03]ER24148 [05]ER28047 [07]ER41037 [09]ER46981 [11]ER52405 [13]ER58223 [15]ER65459 [17]ER71538 [19]ER77599”)
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variable ER34701 not found
Note variable ER34701 is the interview number of the 2019 individual-level data. I certainly have it in my crossind data file, so I am not sure why here it tells me that it cannot be found. Is it because the psidtools Stata ado file still cannot deal with the 2019 PSID?

I encountered the same problem when I try to update the next variable in the do file (marstat). So I did not further check all the remaining variables.

Thank you!

[Konrad Turek]

Hi Ethan,

indeed, the newest wave of the PSID is not yet included in the CPF. Unfortunately, PSID is the most complex and demanding dataset to add, since all variables have wave-specific names. Thus, they have to updated separately by hand, one after another.
We hope to be able to update it in the next weeks.

Best,
Konrad (CPF team)

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