The Comparative Panel File (CPF) harmonizes the world’s largest and longest-running household panel surveys from seven countries: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), United Kingdom (BHPS and UKHLS), South 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 CPF builds on the Cross-National Equivalent File but offers a larger range of variables, larger and more recent samples, an easier and more flexible workflow, and an open science platform for development. The CPF is not a data product but an open-source code that integrates individual and household panel data from all seven surveys into a harmonized three-level data structure. The CPF allows analysing individual trajectories, time trends, contextual effects, and country differences. The project is organized as an open science platform. The CPF version 1.0 contains 2.7 million observations from 360,000 respondents, covering the period from 1968 to 2019 and up to 40 panel waves per respondent. In this data brief, we present the background, design, and content of the CPF.

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比较小组文件：来自七个国家的统一家庭小组调查

比较小组文件 (CPF) 协调了来自以下七个国家的世界上规模最大、运行时间最长的家庭小组调查：澳大利亚 (HILDA)、德国 (SOEP)、英国 (BHPS 和 UKHLS)、韩国 (KLIPS)、俄罗斯 (RLMS) 、瑞士 (SHP) 和美国 (PSID)。该项目旨在支持社会科学界分析比较生命历程数据。CPF 建立在跨国等效文件的基础上，但提供了更大范围的变量、更大和更新的样本、更简单、更灵活的工作流程以及开放的科学发展平台。CPF 不是一个数据产品，而是一个开源代码，它将所有七项调查的个人和家庭面板数据整合到一个统一的三级数据结构中。CPF 允许分析个体轨迹、时间趋势、上下文影响、和国家差异。该项目被组织为一个开放的科学平台。CPF 1.0 版包含来自 360,000 名受访者的 270 万个观察结果，涵盖 1968 年至 2019 年期间，每个受访者最多 40 个面板波。在本数据简介中，我们介绍了 CPF 的背景、设计和内容。