IPUMS CPS: descr: UCRECWK

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UCRECWK

Received unemployment compensation in the last week?

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UCRECWK indicates whether the respondent has received unemployment compensation in the last 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 received unemployment compensation since last job
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 received unemployment compensation since last job
2018, 2022: Civilians age 16 or older who were on layoff or not employed but worked in the past 12 months and received unemployment compensation since last job

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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