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Data - CPS Supplements provided by UNICON

Name:	Current Population Survey (CPS) Supplements Annual Earnings Study (also known as the Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups or MORG) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC also known as the March Supplement) Voting and Registration Supplement (also known as the November Supplement)
Source:	UNICON Research
Brief Description:	The UNICON CPS Utilities is a tool to access data from the supplemental questions that are part of the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. In addition, data from UNICON has undergone quality control measures and where possible, has been adjusted for consistency across years, helping to make the data more readily available for immediate analysis compared to raw CPS downloads.
Survey Dates:	MORG 1979-2008 ASEC 1962 - 2008 Voting 1972-2006
Access data:	To access the UNICON CPS Utilities and these data, you must have a CSDE account and then access to the CSDE Windows terminal server 2 (ts2). Under the Start Menu and Progams, see the CPS Utilities.
External Links:	http://www.unicon.com http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/cpsmain.htm

These are public use datasets.

The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population. The sample is scientifically selected to represent the civilian non-institutional population. These data represent the US as a whole and serve as part of model-based estimates for individual states and other geographic areas.

Supplementary questions can be added to the CPS interview in a particular month to gather in-depth information on specific aspects of the labor force or other topics. There are about a dozen CPS supplements, three of which are available here.

The Annual Earnings Study, or the Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups, is comprised of every household that enters the Current Population Surveys (CPS). Each household is interviewed each month for 4 months, then ignored for 8 months, then interviewed again for 4 more months. Usual weekly hours and earning questions are asked only at households in their 4th and 8th interview. New households enter each month, so one fourth of the households are in an outgoing rotation each month.
The Annual Social and Economic Supplement provides usual monthly labor force data, and in addition provides supplemental data on work experience, income, noncash benefits, and migration. Comprehensive work experience information is given on the employment status, occupation, and industry.
The Voting and Registration Supplement is conducted every two years coinciding with major national elections, and provides a demographic, social, and economic view of the US electorate.

The UNICON CPS Utilities, a tool to access data, allow variables of interest in the supplements to be easily identified. Documentation for each variable is consolidated on a single page covering all survey years, and is hyperlinked to documentation for related variables and appendices. Each extraction is documented in a report file. Options enable filtering of observations and renaming of variables.

To download these data, you must have a CSDE account and then access to the CSDE Windows terminal server 2 (ts2). Under the Start Menu and Progams, see the CPS Utilities.