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Data Watch: The Redesigned Current Population Survey

Author(s) -

Anne E. Polivka

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.10.3.169

Subject(s) - current population survey , survey data collection , survey research , population , key (lock) , survey methodology , current (fluid) , market research , marketing , business , actuarial science , data science , economics , engineering , computer science , computer security , statistics , socioeconomics , medicine , environmental health , electrical engineering , mathematics

The Current Population Survey (CPS), a national survey of 50,000 households, is a major source of information about the American labor market. In January 1994, the CPS underwent a major redesign both in the wording of the questionnaire and the methodology used to collect the data. This article reviews the motivation for the redesign, compares several key CPS estimates before and after the implementation of the new survey, and explains some of the new data collected in the redesigned CPS.

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