Publications

Most-Requested CPS Publications

• Economic news releases
• Research series on labor force status flows
• More information about labor force status flows
• Recent trends in employment from the BLS household and payroll surveys (updated monthly) (PDF)
• More information about CPS and CES employment differences
• How the government measures unemployment (HTML)
• Employment & Earnings Online
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual tables from the household survey (CPS)
• Technical notes to household survey data published in Employment and Earnings
• Introduction (Relationship and comparability with establishment and other surveys) (PDF)
• Collection and Coverage, Concepts and Definitions, Historical Comparability and Estimating Methods (PDF)
• Seasonal adjustment (PDF)
• Recent BLS analyses of CPS data

CPS Reports and Summaries

• Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2007 (PDF)
• Characteristics of minimum wage workers: 2007
• Previous versions: (2006) (2005) (2004) (2003) (2002)
• Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2007 (PDF)
• Previous versions: Earnings in (2006) (2005) (2004) (2003) (2002) (2001) (2000) (1999) (1998)
• Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (2007 edition)
• Previous versions: (2006 edition) (2005 edition) (2004 edition)
• A Profile of the Working Poor, 2006 (PDF)
• Previous versions: A Profile of the Working Poor (2005) (2004) (2003) (2002) (2001) (2000) (1999)
• Charting the U.S. Labor Market in 2006
• Previous versions: Charting the U.S. Labor Market in 2005
• Report on the Youth Labor Force (2000)


• Browse data and publications by subject: CPS A to Z, demographics, labor force characteristics, and earnings

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: October 17, 2008