Geographic Mobility User Notes

Notes related to redesigns, omissions and corrections.

ASEC User Note: Updates to Reasons for Moving Categories: 2020

Updates to the reason for moving categories included the addition of a new category, “relationship with unmarried partner (boy/girlfriend, fiancé, etc.).”

ASEC User Note: Migration Questions 1971 through 1980

The 1-year geographic mobility question was not asked from 1972 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1980.

ASEC User Note: Distance of Move Estimates from 2003 to 2005

A change in processing resulted in a shift in the distribution of movers and distance moved between the 2002-2003 to 2004-2005 periods.

ASEC User Note: 2014 CPS ASEC Sample

The source of data for the 2014 tables is the CPS ASEC sample of 98,000 addresses.

ASEC User Note: Migration Question Wording Change in 2004

Before 2004, the question asked about residence on March 1 of the previous year. As of 2004, it asked about residence one year ago.

ASEC User Note: Potential Display Issue, Reason for Move: 2012-2015

A potential display issue in the data collection instrument could have introduced response bias during the 2012-2015 CPS-ASEC data collection.

ASEC User Note: Reason for Move Write-In Expansion Recoding Updates

The recode expansion will be implemented as of data year 2019. It was originally to be implemented as of data year 2016.

ASEC User Note: Revised: Reason for Move Write-In Expansion

This is a revised version of a user note originally published in 2016. It includes some updates and corrections since the original user note.