Changelog

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Suggested citation for EPI microdata extracts

Economic Policy Institute. 2024. Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.51, https://microdata.epi.org.

Recent changes

Version 1.0.51 -- 2024-04-23

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• documentation for occcode - original census occupation code, not harmonized over time

Modified

• v1.0.50 introduced an error where occupation codes for occ70 through occ18 were missing. This update rectified an issue where the occupation variables relied on code erroneously included in the generation of occ70 instead of occcode to create those variables. Thanks to Hilary Wething for spotting this error!

Version 1.0.50 -- 2024-04-11

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• March 2024 extracts

Modified

• Fixed documentation error in earnhour to be consistent with the underlying variable name change. Change occurred in March 2021.

Version 1.0.49 -- 2024-03-18

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• February 2024 extracts

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• Fixed labeling errors in occ90 to be consistent with the relevant census codebook, appendix B. This impacts value labels for occ90 from 1992 to 2002 in the basic monthly and ORG data. Thank you to John Schmitt for discovering and notifying EPI of this error!
  • label for occupation code 021 was "Business and promotion managers", now "Managers, service organizations, n.e.c"
  • label for occupation code 034 was "Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupation", now "Business and promotion agents"
  • label for occupation code 243 was "Supervisors--forestry", now "Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupation"

Version 1.0.48 -- 2024-02-14

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• January 2024 extracts

Version 1.0.47 -- 2024-01-10

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• December 2023 extracts

Version 1.0.46 -- 2023-12-15

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• November 2023 extracts

Version 1.0.45 -- 2023-11-16

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• October 2023 extracts

Version 1.0.44 -- 2023-10-12

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• September 2023 extracts

Version 1.0.43 -- 2023-09-18

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• August 2023 extracts

Version 1.0.42 -- 2023-08-16

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• July 2023 extracts

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• hoursvary was only 1 and missing in prior versions. Now has value of 0 when hours do not vary.

Version 1.0.41 -- 2023-08-02

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• April, May, June 2023 extracts

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• weekpay has been adjusted to reflect the new topcoding procedures from Census. See more about how we deal with this in the wage variables methodology

Version 1.0.40 -- 2023-04-24

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• March 2023 extracts

Version 1.0.39 -- 2023-03-17

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• February 2023 extracts

Version 1.0.38 -- 2023-02-27

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• January 2023 extracts

Version 1.0.37 -- 2023-01-12

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• December 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.36 -- 2022-12-08

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• November 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.35 -- 2022-11-10

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• October 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.34 -- 2022-10-13

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• September 2022 extracts

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• Fixed typo in minsamp documentation

Version 1.0.33 -- 2022-09-09

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• August 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.32 -- 2022-08-10

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• July 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.31 -- 2022-07-18

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• June 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.30 -- 2022-06-08

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• May 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.29 -- 2022-05-11

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• April 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.28 -- 2022-04-06

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• March 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.27 -- 2022-03-10

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• February 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.26 -- 2022-02-17

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• January 2022 extracts

Version 1.0.25 -- 2022-01-14

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• December 2021 extracts

Version 1.0.24 -- 2021-12-08

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• November 2021 extracts

Version 1.0.23 -- 2021-11-15

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• October 2021 extracts

Version 1.0.22 -- 2021-10-14

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• September 2021 extracts

Version 1.0.21 -- 2021-09-09

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• August 2021 extracts

Version 1.0.20 -- 2021-08-11

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• July 2021 extracts

Version 1.0.19 -- 2021-07-12

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• June 2021 extracts

Modified

• March 2021 CPS Basic data had missing wage values. A modified file was uploaded by Census (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/datasets/2021/basic/may21pub.zip). v1.0.19 incorporates this new file for March.

Version 1.0.18 -- 2021-06-09

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• May 2021 extracts

Recent changes

Version 1.0.17 -- 2021-05-13

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• April 2021 extracts

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• Minor coding changes to mind16 suggested by Brain Dew (see here: https://github.com/Economic/epiextracts/pull/163)

Version 1.0.16 -- 2021-04-08

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• March 2021 extracts

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• Minor coding error that caused occ10 to exist beyond 2019. This has been fixed

Version 1.0.15 -- 2021-03-09

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• February 2021 extracts

Version 1.0.14 -- 2021-02-11

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• January 2021 extracts

Version 1.0.13 -- 2021-01-13

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• December 2020 extracts

Version 1.0.12 -- 2020-12-10

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• November 2020 extracts

Modified

• January-July 2020 basic monthly CPS were re-released by Census to fix a small occupation coding error. These changes to the data have been incorporated in v1.0.12 (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/technical-documentation/user-notes/cpsbasic_2020_01.html)

Version 1.0.11 -- 2020-11-12

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• October 2020 extracts

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• cmpwgt and finalwgt - changed instances where weights had a value of zero to be missing instead

Version 1.0.10 -- 2020-10-08

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• September 2020 extracts

Version 1.0.9 -- 2020-09-09

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• August 2020 extracts

Version 1.0.8 -- 2020-08-13

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• July 2020 extracts

Version 1.0.7 -- 2020-07-10

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• June 2020 extracts

Version 1.0.6 -- 2020-06-26

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• dlfstat : detailed labor force status
• emphrs : reason not at work/hours last week
• ftptstat : full/part time work status
• whyabsent : reason absent from work
• whyunemp : reason for unemployment

Version 1.0.5 -- 2020-06-12

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• May 2020 extracts

Fixed

• ind12 - corrected availability; previously was available up to the most recent month of data, when it should have been available through 2019m12

Version 1.0.4 -- 2020-05-19

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• otcamt corrected (values were too low as they were incorrectly divided by 100); this correction also changes values of wageotc

Version 1.0.3 -- 2020-05-13

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• April 2020 extracts

Version 1.0.2 -- 2020-03-15

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• March 2020 extracts

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• mocc10 - modified to accomodate 2018 occupation recodes (applies to data starting in 2020)

Version 1.0.1 -- 2020-03-13

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• January 2020 extracts
• February 2020 extracts
• ind17 - 2017 census industry recodes (changes apply to data starting in 2020)
• occ18 - 2018 Cencus occupational classification (changes apply to data starting in 2020)

Modified

• Hourly wage limits for 2020 updated based on CBO inflation projections.
• mind16 - modified to accomodate 2017 industry recodes (applies to data starting in 2020)

Fixed

• union, unioncov and unionmem no longer missing for January 1984 in the basic monthly/January 1983 in the ORG
• occ10 - fixed to start in January 2011 instead of April 2012.

Version 1.0 -- 2020-01-15

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• December 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.15 -- 2019-12-16

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• November 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.14 -- 2019-11-18

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• October 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.13 -- 2019-10-10

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• September 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.12 -- 2019-09-13

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• August 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.11 -- 2019-08-08

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• July 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.10 -- 2019-07-12

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• June 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.9 -- 2019-06-12

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• May 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.8 -- 2019-05-14

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• April 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.7 -- 2019-04-22

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• hhtype no longer missing for 1984-1993.

Version 0.6.6 -- 2019-04-15

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• March 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.5 -- 2019-03-19

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• February 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.4 -- 2019-02-22

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• agechild - presence of own children, by age group

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• Hourly wage limits for 2019 updated based on CBO inflation projections.

Version 0.6.3 -- 2019-02-07

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• January 2019 extracts

Version 0.6.2 -- 2019-01-31

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• December 2018 extracts: all data from 2018 updated.

Version 0.6.1 -- 2019-01-21

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• faminc: family income category
• famtype: family type
• famwgt: family weight
• famid: family id
• hhtype: household type
• hhid: household id
• personid: person id

Version 0.6.0 -- 2019-01-08

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• famrel: relationship to primary family
• ownchild: Number of own children in primary family
• wbho_only: White only, Black only, Hispanic, Other
• wbo_only: White only, Black only, Hispanic

Changed

• renamed wbonly to wbo_only
• educ: now categorizes "12th grade, no diploma" as LTHS

Fixed

• gradeatn: missing values corrected