Abstract
Abstract The Current Population Survey (CPS) is one of the world's foremost and historic household surveys, providing the data to generate the United State's monthly unemployment rate along with a myriad of other key labor‐force statistics. This paper discusses the evolution of the CPS from its origin in the 1940s. In addition to documenting current procedures, the paper highlights important changes in concepts, survey questions, sample designs, estimation procedures, and data collection procedures. The paper addresses how official estimates derived from the data are released to the public, and briefly discusses the organizational structure that has supported the CPS throughout its history.
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