Publications

Most-Requested CPS Publications

• Employment Situation news release (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)


• How the government measures unemployment (HTML) (PDF)


• Other economic news releases


• Employment & Earnings Online
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual tables from the household survey (CPS)
  • Technical notes to household survey data published in Employment and Earnings
    • Introduction (Relationship and comparability with establishment and other surveys) (PDF)
    • Collection and Coverage, Concepts and Definitions, Historical Comparability and Estimating Methods (PDF)
    • Seasonal adjustment (PDF)
    • More CPS technical documentation


• Comparing employment from the BLS household and payroll surveys


• Browse data and publications by subject: CPS A to Z, demographics, labor force characteristics, and earnings

CPS Reports and Summaries

• Minimum wage workers:  Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2017  (Archives and more)
• Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity:  Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2017   (Archives and more)
• Earnings:  Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2017  (Archives and more)
• Women:  Women in the Labor Force: A Databook  (Archives and more)
• Working Poor:  A Profile of the Working Poor, 2016  (Archives and more)


• Charting the U.S. Labor Market (2006) (2005)
• Report on the Youth Labor Force (2000)


• Browse data and publications by subject: CPS A to Z, demographics, labor force characteristics, and earnings

CPS Survey Methods Publications

• Handbook of Methods
• Methodology for seasonally adjusting national household labor force series 
• Adjustments to household survey population estimates 
• Labor force and employment research series smoothed for population control adjustments 
• Occupational and industry classification 


• Current Population Survey, design and methodology (Technical paper 66) (October 2006) (PDF 3.2MB)
  • Previous versions:
    • Technical paper 63, revised March 2002 (PDF 3.1MB)
    • Technical paper 63, March 2000 (PDF 2.2MB)


• Effects of Hurricane Katrina on BLS Data Collection and Estimation (HTML)
• Expansion of the Current Population Survey Sample Effective July 2001, from Employment and Earnings, August 2001 (PDF)
• A Test of Methods for Collecting Racial and Ethnic Information, 1995 (TXT)

Last Modified Date: August 30, 2018

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