DOI: 10.6077/j5/ta1lme
title: Current Population Survey, February 2005: Contingent Work Supplement File

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 15 and over. Also shown are personal characteristics such as age, sex, race, marital status, veteran status, household relationship, educational background, and Hispanic origin. The Contingent Work Supplement questions were asked of all applicable persons aged 15 and older. The file contains information on contingent or temporary work done without expecting continuing employment. Also included is information about each worker's expectation of continuing employment, satisfaction with their current employment arrangement, transition into the current employment arrangement, current job history, search for other employment, employee benefits, and 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 -- &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04311.v2"&gt;https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04311.v2&lt;/a&gt;. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they made this dataset available in multiple data formats.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Current Population Survey, February
description: collection_notes: The current CPS sample is a combination of sample households based on both 1990 and 2000 census information. The sample is undergoing a phase-in phase-out period, which began in April 2004 and ends in June 2005, whereupon new sample households are introduced and old sample households are retired each month. Until the transition period is complete in July 2005, the geographic descriptions below are based on the 1990 census information. The first stage of the 1990 sample design created 2,007 geographic areas called primary sampling units (PSUs) in the entire United States. These 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 754 PSUs were selected for sample containing 2,121 counties, minor civil divisions, and independent cities. The second stage of the sample design selected housing units within these PSUs. Approximately 72,000 housing units are assigned for interview each month, of which about 60,000 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 60,000 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 112,000 persons 15 years old and over, approximately 31,000 children 0-14 years old, and about 450 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.