Current Population Survey, January 1981 (ICPSR 8115)

Version Date: Nov 5, 2012

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States. Bureau of the Census

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08115.v3

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Summary

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.

Citation

United States. Bureau of the Census. Current Population Survey, January 1981. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08115.v3

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

state

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1981-01

Date of Collection

1981-01

Data Collection Notes

  1. All records contain weights, which must be used in any analysis.

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Sample

A national probability sample was used in selecting housing units. Approximately 77,000 households were surveyed.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Persons in the civilian nonistitutionalized population of the United States including members of the armed forces living in civilian housing units In January 1981.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

1984-06-28

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

  • 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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Weight

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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Notes

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