Current population survey, November 1979
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Series: ICPSR -- 8052; ICPSR (Series) -- 8052
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Labor supply; Statistics; Ethnology; Population; Languages
Description: 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, of the population as a whole, and of various subgroups in the population. The November 1979 supplement to the CPS is particularly concerned with ethnicity, literacy, and language. Respondents were chosen from a universe of all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population in the United States living in households. They were asked specific questions about their country of birth, their parents' country of birth, their citizenship, year of immigration, ancestry, and current language spoken at home. If a foreign language was spoken at home, respondents indicated their ability to read and write this language as well as English. The language spoken at home when the respondent was a child was also identified. The CPS November 1979 supplement also contains 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 14 years old and over. Also shown are personal characteristics such as age, sex, race, marital status, veteran status, household relationship, educational background, and Spanish origin.
Notes: Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: November 1979.

United States.

Approximately 76,700 households; 160,255 records with a logical record length of 600 characters; approximately 340 variables.

United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment and Earnings. December 1979. (Available from Superintendent of Documents, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402).

United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Ancestry and Language in the United States: November 1979. Current Population Reports, Special Studies Series P-23, No. 116. Issued March 1982. Among its holdings, ICPSR also has the November supplement files of the Current Population Survey Series for 1972, 1974, 1976, and 1980. Their emphasis is on election issues.