IPUMS CPS: descr: UCNORECWK

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UCNORECWK

Reason did not receive unemployment compensation in the last week?

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UCNORECWK indicates the reason the respondent has not received unemployment compensation in the past week.

See the Unemployment Compensation Supplement notes for more information on using this dataset.

Apart from universe changes, this variable is comparable over all available years.

1989-1990: Civilians age 15 or older in month-in-samples 4 or 8 who were unemployed, had ever worked, and did not receive unemployment compensation in the last week
2005: Civilians age 16 or older in month-in-samples 4 or 8 who were unemployed, or not in labor force but had worked in the past 12 months and were not retired or disabled, and did not receive unemployment compensation in the last week
2018, 2022: Civilians age 16 or older who were on layoff or not employed but worked in the past 12 months, and did not receive unemployment compensation in the last week

Years	Jan	Feb	ASEC	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1989	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	X	-	-	X	-
1990	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2005	X	-	-	-	X	-	X	-	-	-	X	-
2018	-	-	-	-	X	-	-	-	X	-	-	-
2022	-	X	-	-	X	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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