Current population survey, October 1984
Subtitle: school enrollment
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Series: Current population survey: October files; ICPSR -- 8537; ICPSR (Series) -- 8537
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Labor supply; Statistics; Students; Population
Description: Data on labor force activity for the week prior to the survey are supplied in this collection. Information is available on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons 14 years old and over. Demographic variables such as age, sex, race, marital status, veteran status, household relationship, educational background, and Spanish origin are included as well. In addition to providing these core data, the October CPS survey also contains a special supplement on school enrollment. This supplement, which furnishes data for both adults and children, offers information on continuing education, previous year's enrollment, degree anticipated, grade or year of school attended, and whether school attended is public or private. New items introduced in the 1984 supplement deal with direct or ''hands-on'' use of computers. These additional variables include presence of computers in the home, school, and workplace, purposes for which home computers are used, and average time spent weekly working with computers.
Notes: Survey data.

The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a household sample survey conducted monthly by the Census Bureau to provide estimates of employment, unemployment, and other characteristics of the general labor force, estimates of the population as a whole, and estimates of various subgroups in the population. The October files contain the core questions included in every Current Population Survey as well as an additional series of questions on school enrollment. The additional information includes: current grade if attending a public or private school, whether attending college full- or part-time at a two or four year institution, degree anticipated, year last attended a regular school, year graduated from high school, student mobility and time spent on homework by elementary and high school students, and noncollegiate post-secondary enrollment. Please note that some of the October files possess subtitles. This reflects a shift in Census Bureau policy toward the assignment of more explicit titles to the various CPS surveys. Also, starting with 1984, the survey universe has been expanded to include all male members of the Armed Forces living in civilian housing units.

For Current Population Surveys conducted during the period April 1984 through June 1985, the Bureau of the Census systematically phased in a new sample design based on the results of the 1980 Decennial Census. During this period CPS estimates were drawn from two distinct sample designs--the old 1970 sample and the new 1980 scheme. While most CPS estimates have not been affected by this mixed sample, metropolitan/nonmetropolitan estimates and certain other CPS geographic estimates have been altered due to differences in coverage between the two designs and a change in metropolitan definitions used during the selection process of each sample design.

ICPSR data class: Class IV

Chronological coverage: October 1984, data collected: October 15-20, 1984.

self-enumerated forms.

United States.

Logical record length format.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 165,490 ; variable count: approx. 320 ; logical record length: 690 ; records per case: 1

Monthly probability sample based on a stratified sampling scheme. The sample consists of approximately 71,000 households.

Universe: All persons in the noninstitutional population of the United States.

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. CURRENT POPULATION REPORTS. ''School Enrollment--Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 1984''(Advance Report). Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office.

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. THE CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY: DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY (Technical Paper 40). Washington, D.C.: Bureau of the Census.