Publications
Most-Requested CPS Publications
CPS Reports and Summaries
CPS Survey Methods Publications
- Revision of Seasonally Adjusted Labor Force Series (from the January 2008 Employment and Earnings, PDF)
- Adjustments to Household Survey Population Estimates in January 2008 (PDF)
- Labor force and employment estimates smoothed for population adjustments, 1990-2007 (PDF)
- Creating Comparability in CPS Employment Series (PDF)
- Several major changes affecting the Current Population Survey (household) data in January 2003 (HTML)
- Occupational and Industry Classification
- BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 1, Labor Force Data Derived from the Current Population Survey (HTML)
- Current Population Survey, design and methodology (Technical paper 66) (October 2006) (PDF 3.2MB)
- Previous versions:
- Technical paper 63, revised March 2002 (PDF 3.1MB)
- Technical paper 63, March 2000 (PDF 2.2MB)
- Effects of Hurricane Katrina on BLS Data Collection and Estimation (HTML)
- Expansion of the Current Population Survey Sample Effective July 2001, from Employment and Earnings, August 2001 (PDF)
- A Test of Methods for Collecting Racial and Ethnic Information (Text)
- More CPS technical documentation
Last Modified Date: August 25, 2008
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