# Archiving, Enhancing, and Expanding the Cross-National Equivalent File

> **NIH NIH R03** · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $78,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
In the project, "Archiving, Enhancing, and Expanding the Cross-National Equivalent File" (submitted under
PAR-16-149), we will support, enhance, and expand the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF). The CNEF is
a cooperative effort of individuals and institutions that, as of 2019, compiles panel survey data from nine
countries. The studies include the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), UK British Household Panel
Study (BHPS), Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA), Japan Household Panel
Survey (JHPS), Korea Labor and Income Panel (KLIPS), Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Study-Higher School
of Economics (RLMS-HSE), Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics (SLID), German Socio-
Economic Panel (SOEP), and Swiss Household Panel (SHP). The CNEF harmonizes data common to two or
more of the country-based surveys, allows researchers access to both the harmonized and original data,
provides all harmonization algorithms, and focuses on some of the most successful nationally representative
ongoing longitudinal micro-data sets in the world.
Researchers around the world use CNEF data to study social science questions in a cross-country
comparative framework. They study questions that are scientifically important and relevant to current policy
debates. CNEF value as a rich resource for such studies is likely to grow as people, economies, and
governments become ever more inter-connected. The CNEF data are resources the research community uses
to produce new knowledge, deeper understanding and better evidence to guide policy-makers as they adapt
policies to new social and economic realities.
Interest in cross-national comparative research is deep and widespread. A simple GoogleScholar search for
the phrases "cross-national" or "cross national" yields more than 1,740,000 "hits," many of which consist of
articles in scholarly publications on a wide range of topics that includes cross-national comparisons of
academic organizations, major depression, bipolar disorder, economic growth, earnings, income inequality,
political participation, prostate cancer mortality, and patent rights.
This project will add the newly produced JHPS-CNEF data, update CNEF with new data releases and will
further enhance documentation and dissemination tools that will increase the use of the data and make it
easier for both the scientific, policy, and general public communities to share in and find out about the results
of research using CNEF data.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10023937
- **Project number:** 5R03HD100924-02
- **Recipient organization:** OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Dean R Lillard
- **Activity code:** R03 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $78,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-24 → 2022-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10023937

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10023937, Archiving, Enhancing, and Expanding the Cross-National Equivalent File (5R03HD100924-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10023937. Licensed CC0.

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