Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Demographic Files and Related March Surveys

The agency used the labor force and work experience data from this survey to profile the U.S. labor market and to make employment projections. This series consists of public use microdata files containing core questions included in every CPS as well as detailed demographic data repr esentative of the non-institutionalized United States civilian population and male members of the armed services living in civilian housing.

The CPS is a household sample survey of approximately 50,000 households. These social survey data files supply standard monthly labor force data as well as occasional supplemental data on work experience, income, non-cash benefits, and migration. Comprehensive information is given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons older than 14, weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full-time, total income and income components, and residence on March 1 of the survey year.