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Current Population Survey (CPS) March Supplement or CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC)
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The Annual Demographic Survey or March CPS supplement is the primary source of detailed information on income and work experience in the United States. Numerous publications based on this survey are issued each year by the Bureaus of Labor Statistics and Census. A public-use microdata file is available for private researchers, who also produce many academic and policy-related documents based on these data.
The Annual Demographic Survey is used to generate the annual Population Profile of the United States, reports on geographical mobility and educational attainment, and detailed analysis of money income and poverty status. The labor force and work experience data from this survey are used to profile the U.S. labor market and to make employment projections.
To allow for the same type of in-depth analysis of hispanics, additional hispanic sample units are added to the basic CPS sample in March each year. Additional weighting is also performed so that estimates can be made for households and families, in addition to persons. Provide data concerning family characteristics, household composition, marital status, education attainment, health insurance coverage, foreign-born population, previous year’s income from all sources, work experience, receipt of noncash benefit, poverty, program participation, and geographic mobility.
Detailed Methodology
The CPS sample is based on the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States. The sample is located in approximately 826 sample areas comprising 1,328 counties and independent cities with coverage in every State and in the District of Columbia. In all, some 70,000 housing units or other living quarters are assigned for interview each month; about 50,000 of them containing approximately 100,000 persons 15 years old and over are interviewed. Also included are demographic data for approximately 22,000 children 0-14 years old and 400 Armed Forces members living with civilians either on or off base within these households.
The remainder of the assigned housing units are found to be vacant, converted to nonresidential use, contain persons with residence elsewhere, or are not interviewed because the residents are not found at home after repeated calls, are temporarily absent, or are unavailable for other reasons. Approximately 20,000 noninterview households are present each month. The resulting file size is approximately 142,000 records.
In addition to the basic CPS questions, interviewers asked supplementary questions for the CPS ASEC. They asked these questions of the civilian noninstitutionalized population and also of military personnel who live in households with at least one other civilian adult.
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the CPS ASEC over a 3-month period in February, March, and April, with most of the data collection occurring in the month of March. The CPS ASEC uses two sets of questions, the basic CPS and a set of supplemental questions.
Request BOC PIK Crosswalk Current Population Survey to assign PIKs to CPS respondents.. HSEQ . F_SEQ . QSTNUM (Household Id)