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Description & Citation--Study No. 6171

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6171
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06171
 
Title:Current Population Surveys: March Individual-Level Extracts, 1968-1992
 
Principal Investigator(s):Robert Moffitt
 
Series:Current Population Survey Series
 
Funding Agency:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
 
Bibliographic Citation:Moffitt, Robert. CURRENT POPULATION SURVEYS: MARCH INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL EXTRACTS, 1968-1992 [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty [producer], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06171
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The data files in this collection are individual-level extracts derived from the Current Population Survey's March Annual Demographic files for the years 1968 to 1992. Each record contains information about an individual, the household in which the individual resides, and the family and the spouse of the individual. In addition to the standard monthly labor force data, these files contain supplemental data on work experience, migration, income, and noncash income sources such as food stamps, school lunch programs, Medicaid, Medicare, CHAMPUS or military health care, energy assistance, health insurance, and pension plans.
 
Subject Term(s):census data, demographic characteristics, employment, health insurance, households, income, labor force, Medicaid, Medicare, pension plans, population characteristics, population estimates, population migration, unemployment
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1968 - 1992
 
Universe:Civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States living in housing units and members of the Armed Forces living in civilian housing units on a military base or in housing units not on a military base.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) Data on employment and income refer to the preceding year while demographic data refer to the time of the survey. (2) These data files may be linked for cross-sectional analyses, with the restriction that the extracts are not completely uniform across the two revisions of the March Current Population Surveys. Three different versions were used during the periods 1968 to 1975, 1976 to 1988, and 1989 to 1992. Merging across versions requires careful attention to how variables were constructed and possible differences in universes for particular variables. (3) With the exception of 1974, the locations of variables in the data files differ between the time periods 1968 through 1988 and 1989 through 1992. Users of data for the years 1968 to 1973 and 1975 to 1988 should use the data definition statements for that time period (Parts 27 and 29). Likewise, users of data for the years 1974 and 1989 to 1992 should select Parts 26 and 28, the data definition statements that pertain to those years.
 

Methodology

Sample:National probability sample of households in the United States.
 
Data Source:United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. CURRENT POPULATION SURVEYS: MARCH ANNUAL DEMOGRAPHIC FILES, 1968-1992.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1995-06-05
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-12.
 
  2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 30 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
 
  1998-02-10 - Names for the SAS and SPSS FILES, Parts 26-29, have changed, and a processing note has been added to the codebook.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: March 1968 Data
  • DS2: March 1969 Data
  • DS3: March 1970 Data
  • DS4: March 1971 Data
  • DS5: March 1972 Data
  • DS6: March 1973 Data
  • DS7: March 1974 Data
  • DS8: March 1975 Data
  • DS9: March 1976 Data
  • DS10: March 1977 Data
  • DS11: March 1978 Data
  • DS12: March 1979 Data
  • DS13: March 1980 Data
  • DS14: March 1981 Data
  • DS15: March 1982 Data
  • DS16: March 1983 Data
  • DS17: March 1984 Data
  • DS18: March 1985 Data
  • DS19: March 1986 Data
  • DS20: March 1987 Data
  • DS21: March 1988 Data
  • DS22: March 1989 Data
  • DS23: March 1990 Data
  • DS24: March 1991 Data
  • DS25: March 1992 Data
  • DS26: SAS Data Definition Statements for Parts 7, 22-25
  • DS27: SAS Data Definition Statements for Parts 1-6, 8-21
  • DS28: SPSS Data Definition Statements for Parts 7, 22-25
  • DS29: SPSS Data Definition Statements for Parts 1-6, 8-21
 

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