The March 2026 monthly data and the January 2026 data that were recently re-released by the Census Bureau are now available via IPUMS CPS. October 2025 data were not collected during the U.S. federal government shutdown.

Data Format and Structure (help)

Data Format

If you choose the "Fixed-width text (.dat)" data format, you will additionally receive Stata, SPSS, and SAS syntax files to load your fixed-width extract data file. Alternatively, you can receive your data in one of the formats listed below.






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Data Structure
Cross-sectional
Longitudinal
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