DOI: 10.6077/j5/236ctj
title: Current Population Survey, March 1980

description: &lt;p&gt;This data collection supplies standard monthly labor force data as well as supplemental data on work experience, income, noncash benefits, and migration. Comprehensive information is given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons 14 years old and older. Additional data are available for persons 15 years old and older concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full-time, total income and income components, and residence. This file also contains data covering noncash income sources such as food stamps, school lunch programs, employer-provided group health insurance plans, employer-provided pension plans, Medicaid, Medicare, and CHAMPUS or military health care. Information on demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, race, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, and Hispanic origin, is available for each person in the household enumerated. (Source: ICPSR, retrieved 06/23/2011)&lt;/p&gt;
description: Current Population Survey, March [Annual Demographic Files]
description: collection_notes: The CPS sample is located in 644 sample areas comprising more than 1,000 counties and independent cities with coverage in every State and in the District of Columbia. In all, some 84,000 housing units or other living quarters are assigned for interview each month; about 68,000 of them containing approximately 147,000 persons 14 years old and over are interviewed. Because of recent sample expansions, however, data are only tabulated for approximately 63,000 households containing 135,000 persons 14+. 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. The CPS sample is based on the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States. In March of each year supplemental data are obtained for Armed Forces members residing with their families in regular housing units. The Armed Forces members are not asked the monthly labor force questions. Another unique feature of the March supplement is the addition of a sample of Spanish households to increase the reliability of data on Spanish persons and households. All households identified in November of the previous year as housing at least one person of Spanish origin are reinterviewed in March. This results in the addition of about 2,500 households in the March CPS. The inclusion of the additional sample of Spanish households began in 1976. A more precise explanation regarding the CPS sample design is provided in Technical Paper 40 entitled The Current Population Survey: Design and Methodology. For a more detailed discussion about the basic labor force data gathered on a monthly basis in the CPS survey--see Bureau of Labor Statistics Report No. 463 and Current Population Reports P-23, No. 62, issued jointly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census in October, 1976, and entitled Concepts and Methods Used In Labor Statistics Derived from the Current Population Survey.