DOI: 10.6077/j5/hvv0pl
title: Current Population Survey, February 1994: Displaced Workers

description: &lt;p&gt;This collection provides data on labor force activity for the week prior to the survey. Comprehensive data are available on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons aged 14 and over. Also shown are personal characteristics such as age, sex, race, marital status, veteran status, household relationship, educational background, and Spanish origin. Questions pertaining to displaced workers were asked of all persons aged 20 and over who lost a job involuntarily within the last five years due to operating decisions of a firm, plant, or business in which the worker was employed. Data are provided on reasons for job displacement, industry and occupation of the former job, group health insurance coverage, job tenure, and weekly earnings. Additional data refer to periods of unemployment as well as number of jobs held, use of unemployment benefits, whether residence was changed to seek work in another area, current health insurance coverage, and current weekly earnings. (Source: downloaded from ICPSR 7/13/10)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please Note&lt;/strong&gt;: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at ICPSR at &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06663.v1"&gt;https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06663.v1&lt;/a&gt;. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they may make this dataset available in multiple data formats in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Current Population Survey, February
description: collection_notes: The current CPS sample is selected based on 1980 census information. (A redesigned CPS sample based on the 1990 census will be phased-in starting April 1994 and completed as of July 1995). The first stage of the 1980 sample design created 1,973 geographic areas called primary sampling units (PSUs) in the entire United States. These 1,973 PSUs were grouped into strata within each state. Some of these PSUs formed strata by themselves and were in sample with certainty, which is referred to as self-representing. Of the remaining nonself-representing PSUs, one PSU was selected from each stratum with the probability of selection proportional to the population of the PSU. A total of 729 PSUs were selected for sample containing 1,297 counties and independent cities. The second stage of the sample design selected housing units within these PSUs. Approximately 70,000 housing units are assigned for interview each month, of which about 59,000 are occupied and thus eligible for interview. The remainder are units found to be destroyed, vacant, converted to nonresidential use, containing persons whose usual place of residence is elsewhere, or ineligible for other reasons. Of the 59,000 occupied housing units, approximately 5 percent are not interviewed in a given month due to temporary absence (vacation, etc.), the residents are not found at home after repeated attempts, inability of persons contacted to respond, unavailability for other reasons, and refusals to cooperate. The interviewed households contain approximately 110,000 persons 15 years old and over, approximately 33,000 children O-14 years old, and about 550 Armed Forces members living with civilians either on or off base within these households. A more precise explanation regarding the CPS sample design is provided in “Explanatory Notes and Estimates of Error: Household Data - Sampling” in any issue of Employment and Earnings.