Documentation

• What is IPUMS-CPS? - Information about the Current Population Survey and the IPUMS-CPS project.


• Variables - Information about the variables available in each sample, together with variable codes, descriptions, and discussions of universes and comparability issues.


• Samples - Summary information about the microdata samples included in the IPUMS-CPS database.


• See our instructions for using the data extraction system.
  
• See our instructions for opening an extract on your PC.
  
• PDFs of the original Current Population Survey Codebooks
• PDFs of many recent Current Population Reports