CPS 2021 Virtual Summer Data Workshop Materials

Day 1 Presentations

  • CPS Rotation Pattern and Time in the CPS
  • Flavors of CPS Data (Basic Monthly, Supplements, ASEC, ORG)

    • Day 2 Presentations

  • Linking & Validating CPS Links
  • Linking ASECs
  • Weights

    • Day 3 Presentations

  • Families, Poverty, & Other Features of IPUMS CPS

    • CPS Linking Exercises

    Answer Keys are found at the end of the exercises. These Stata syntax tips may be helpful.

    1. Linking Possibilities
    2. Time in the CPS
    3. Linking ASEC to BMS, Part I
    4. Linking Validation
    5. Linking ASEC to BMS, Part II
    6. Gross Flows Analysis
    7. Linking with Outgoing Rotation Groups

    Stata Syntax

    These Stata do files represent one way of arriving at the answers to the exercises above.

    1. Linking Possibilities
    2. Time in the CPS
    3. Linking ASEC to BMS, Part I
    4. Linking Validation (part I)
    5. Linking Validation (part II)
    6. Linking ASEC to BMS, Part II
    7. Gross Flows Analysis
    8. Linking with Outgoing Rotation Groups

    Some of these call on external linking validation code. As mentioned in the exercises, this code implements strict validation requirements, requiring SEX and RACE to match exactly and for AGE to change in expected ways across all observations.

    R Code

    These R scripts represent one way of arriving at the answers to the first three exercises above. We plan to update this section with more R code in the future.

    1. Linking Possibilities
    2. Time in the CPS
    3. Linking ASEC to BMS, Part I