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NSDE

National Study of Daily Experiences

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The NSDE is one of the in-depth studies that are part of the MacAuthur Foundation National Survey of Midlife in the United States (MIDUS). The purpose of the NSDE is to examine the day-to-day lives, particularly the daily stressful experiences, of a subsample of 1484 MIDUS respondents who completed short telephone interviews on each of eight consecutive nights. Thus, the data set is comprised of 10,389 daily interviews.