These are extracts made by Dan Feenberg at the National Bureau of Economic Research. The full CPS is available from the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. CPS is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It has been conducted for more than fifty years. CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population.
Information includes employment, unemployment, earnings, hours of work, and other indicators.
They are available by a variety of demographic characteristics, including age, sex, race, marital status, and education, as well as by occupation, industry, and class of worker. If you have a CD ROM that you would like to have mounted, we will be happy to provide that service to you. Check the web site and be totally impressed. Because of the large size of this dataset, we are making it available from our anonymous FTP server rather than from the EML's production fileserver. The BLS has made available online documentation to us for all fourteen years.