CPF provides an open-source code to construct a comparative dataset based on the original data from the household panel surveys.
The multilevel panel data covering long periods and several general population surveys allow analysing individual trajectories, time trends, contextual effects and country differences.
Global Data
CPF combines data from 7 countries, 2.7 million observations from almost 360,000 respondents.
Open Science Platform
We encourage open access and community-based development - anyone can contribute to the project.
Working with CPF
The CPF provides free of charge and full access to the programming code. Try it yourself!
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Newsletter April
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Welcome to the new website of CPF!
At Comparative Panel File (CPF), we aim to support the community of sociologists, demographers and other researchers interested in comparative life course st...
CPF ver. 1.52 – kids and older people in HH added
I added several useful varialbes to the main code at Github. This latest version can be downladed from Github directly or from this CPF website (Downloads):
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