The '
Cross-National Equivalent File
'' (CNEF) is a project that harmonizes and maintains cross nation data for researchers across the world. Current CNEF organization contains data from general population household-based panel surveys fielded in 9 countries, namely Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Korea, Russia, Switzerland and the United States.

Management

The project was originally started by Dr.

Richard Burkhauser Richard Valentine Burkhauser is a Professor Emeritus of Policy Analysis at Cornell University and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for Donald Trump, President Trump. Burkhauser's research often focuses on how public policies ...

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

. Th
CNEF
is currently managed b
Dean Lillard
at the Department of Human Sciences of

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

Data collection and processing

Each of the participating countries conducts a longitudinal survey of households and their residents. Researchers from various institutions collaborate with CNEF to harmonize a subset of data from these surveys. This cross-national data collection is designed to enable researchers even with little experience in panel data analysis to access a simplified version of the panels, while also providing guidelines for experienced users to create equivalent variables across countries. The harmonized data can be used individually or collectively by researchers to compare social and economic outcomes over time and across different countries. By utilizing a cross-national design, researchers can investigate whether variations in observed outcomes are attributable to differences in policies, social conditions, and economic contexts across nations.

Participant surveys

British Household Panel Survey The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), carried out at the Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Essex, is a survey for social and economic research. A sample of British households was drawn and first interviewed in ...

(BHPS), UK * Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), UK *

Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA) is an Australian household-based longitudinal study which began in 2001. It has been used for examining a wide variety of economic, social, health and other issues, examples of w ...

(HILDA),

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

* Japan Household Panel Study (JHPS),

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

* Korea Labor Income Panel Study (KLIPS),

Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...

Panel Study of Income Dynamics The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is a longitudinal panel survey of American families, conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. The PSID measures economic, social, and health factors over the life course of ...

(PSID), US *

Socio-Economic Panel The ''German'' Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP [], for ''Sozio-oekonomisches Panel'') is a Longitudinal study, longitudinal panel dataset of the population in Germany. It is a household based study which started in 1984 and which reinterviews adu ...

(SOEP),

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

* Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID),

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

Swiss Household Panel Swiss most commonly refers to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland *Swiss people Swiss may also refer to: Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina * Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses * Swiss Café, an old café located ...

(SHP),

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

* Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE),

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

References

{{Reflist Economic data Household surveys Panel data Ohio State University