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Current Population Survey (CPS)
Large US labor force survey
Found on: Jones, T. R., Datasets for Social Science, github.com/toddrjones/datasets (CC0 1.0), list version b8ef25a of 13 October 2026, read 14 October 2026
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Current Population Survey (CPS) – Large US labor force survey
- Years: 1962-present. This version is via IPUMS.
- A person participates every month for four months, takes eight months off, then does four more months.
- A subset of the CPS participates in the ATUS (see above).
Quoted from the section “Household Surveys” of Datasets for Social Science by Todd R. Jones, which is shared under CC0 1.0. e2er added the field, the access level and the years.
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Years: 1962-present, as the list states them.
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- Found on a list or in a collection · toddrjones/datasets · @b8ef25a90e805763fbb4a4ad1df93b046135287d
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- dataset:found/current-population-survey-cps · JSON
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