Current population survey, May 1979
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Series: Current population survey: May files; ICPSR -- 7974; ICPSR (Series) -- 7974
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Labor supply; Statistics; Population
Notes: 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 entire non-institutionalized civilian population of the United States is sampled to obtain the respondents used for this survey. The May files contain the core of questions included in every CPS as well as an additional series of questions concentrating on one of three topics: adult education, pension and retirement plan coverage, or multiple job holding and premium pay. Data collections covering this last topic provide information concerning the respondents' employment status, occupation, and industry as well as personal characteristics such as age, sex, race, marital status, household relationship, educational background, and Spanish origin (if applicable). Data are also provided for total family income, weekly earnings of the respondent, dual jobs and reasons for them, days and hours worked per week, earnings per hour, union membership (from 1973 forward), and time of day at which work began and ended.

The data for 1970-1976 (for data collections dealing with multiple job holding and premium pay) were obtained for ICPSR by Linda P. Datcher, Survey Research Center, and Glenn C. Loury, Department of Economics, University of Michigan. The 1978 file was orginally prepared by the United States Bureau of the Census and was provided by Greg Duncan, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan. Please note that some of the May 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.

Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: May 1979.

United States.

160,544 records; approximately 500 variables; logical record length of 792 characters.