Current Population Survey: Basic Monthly

To provide estimates of employment, unemployment, and other characteristics of the general labor force, of the population as a whole, and of various subgroups of the population. Monthly labor force data for the country are used by the <ahref="http://www.bls.gov">Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)</a> to determine the distribution of funds under the Job Training Partnership Act. These data are collected through combined computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). In addition to the labor force data, the CPS basic funding provides annual data on work experience, income, health insurance, and migration data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), and on school enrollment of the population from the October Supplement. Other supplements, some of which are sponsored by other agencies, are conducted biennially or intermittently.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
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c_geographyLink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/cps/basic/oct/geography.json
c_groupsLink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/cps/basic/oct/groups.json
c_isAvailable true
c_isCube true
c_isMicrodata true
c_sorts_url http://api.census.gov/data/2021/cps/basic/oct/sorts.json
c_tagsLink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/cps/basic/oct/tags.json
c_valuesLink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/cps/basic/oct/values.json
c_variablesLink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/cps/basic/oct/variables.json
c_vintage 2021
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identifier https://api.census.gov/data/id/CPSBASIC202110
license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
modified 2021-01-12 00:00:00.0
old-spatial United States
programCode {006:004}
publisher U.S. Census Bureau
publisher_hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department Of Commerce > U.S. Census Bureau
references {https://www.census.gov/developers/}
resource-type Dataset
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source_schema_version 1.1
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temporal 2021-10/2021-10
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • census
  • ckan
  • geo
  • geoss
  • national
  • north-america
  • united-states
isopen True
license_id cc-zero
license_title Creative Commons CCZero
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maintainer Current Population Survey Office
maintainer_email dsd.cps@census.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-21T14:37:38.080192
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T14:37:38.080196
notes To provide estimates of employment, unemployment, and other characteristics of the general labor force, of the population as a whole, and of various subgroups of the population. Monthly labor force data for the country are used by the &lt;ahref="http://www.bls.gov"&gt;Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)&lt;/a&gt; to determine the distribution of funds under the Job Training Partnership Act. These data are collected through combined computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) and computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). In addition to the labor force data, the CPS basic funding provides annual data on work experience, income, health insurance, and migration data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), and on school enrollment of the population from the October Supplement. Other supplements, some of which are sponsored by other agencies, are conducted biennially or intermittently.
num_resources 1
num_tags 9
title Current Population Survey: Basic Monthly