Changelog¶
If you use the EPI extracts for your research, please cite them as
Suggested citation for EPI microdata extracts
Economic Policy Institute. 2023. Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.43, https://microdata.epi.org.
Recent changes¶
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
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- 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
andfinalwgt
- 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 statusemphrs
: reason not at work/hours last weekftptstat
: full/part time work statuswhyabsent
: reason absent from workwhyunemp
: 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 ofwageotc
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 categoryfamtype
: family typefamwgt
: family weightfamid
: family idhhtype
: household typehhid
: household idpersonid
: person id
Version 0.6.0 -- 2019-01-08¶
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famrel
: relationship to primary familyownchild
: Number of own children in primary familywbho_only
: White only, Black only, Hispanic, Otherwbo_only
: White only, Black only, Hispanic
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renamed
wbonly to wbo_onlyeduc
: now categorizes "12th grade, no diploma" as LTHS
Fixed¶
gradeatn
: missing values corrected