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Current Population Survey Datasets
Public Use Microdata File Information
Click below for a description of the monthly files and how to obtain them, a discussion of the data dictionaries, and example calculations of estimates.
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Data from the Current Population Survey comes in many forms, many of which are accessible below.  For a description of how the CPS is administered, the data collection procedures, questions asked, and other information, see the Methodology page.
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Annual Social and Economic Supplements
Provides data concerning families, household composition, educational attainment, health insurance coverage, income sources, poverty, geographic mobility.
Basic Monthly CPS
Data files and data dictionary of the basic monthly CPS, sorted by most recent year and month collected.
CPS Basic Extraction Files
Extract microdata files and data dictionary: 2000-based weights plus revised industry and occupation for Jan. 2000-Dec. 2002; Disability data from 2008.
CPS Certification Items Extract Files
Extract microdata files and dictionary: Items related to job certification for 2015-2016.
CPS Supplement and Replicate Weights
Data files and dictionary, plus replicate weights if available, for CPS Supplement data collections; sorted alphabetically by name, then by year collected.
Available CPS Datasets
Page Last Revised - June 13, 2024
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