Current Population Survey, January 1981 (ICPSR 8115)
Version Date: Nov 5, 2012 View help for published
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United States. Bureau of the Census
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08115.v3
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This data collection supplies standard monthly labor force data for the week prior to the survey. Comprehensive information is given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons 14 years old and older. Additional data are available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full-time, total income and income components, and residence. Besides the CPS core questions, this survey also gathered supplemental data on job tenure and occupational mobility for employed persons aged 16 and older, including items such as occupation and labor force status a year ago, length of time with present employer, length of time in the same occupation, and reasons for changing occupation. Also included in this data file is information on residence one year earlier and education since January 1980. Information on demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, race, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, household relationship, and Hispanic origin, is available for each person in the household enumerated.
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Geographic Coverage View help for Geographic Coverage
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state
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All records contain weights, which must be used in any analysis.
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A national probability sample was used in selecting housing units. Approximately 77,000 households were surveyed.
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Persons in the civilian nonistitutionalized population of the United States including members of the armed forces living in civilian housing units In January 1981.
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personal interviews
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HideOriginal Release Date View help for Original Release Date
1984-06-28
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- United States. Bureau of the Census. Current Population Survey, January 1981. ICPSR08115-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-05. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08115.v3
2012-11-05 The ICPSR codebook has been revised as the previous version, created using Osiris, was unreadable in the previous release of the collection.
1984-06-28 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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The data contain 5 weight variables:
V1079 FINALWGT - Final weight.
V1085 WGTAGERC - Weighting age recode.
V1212 ERNWGTAL - Earning weight for all races.
V1213 ERNWGTBL - Earnings weight for blacks.
V1214 ERNWGTSP - Earnings weight for Spanish.
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