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
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modified 2020-01-28 06:50:24.0
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publisher U.S. Census Bureau
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • AmeriGEO
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • CKAN
  • GEO
  • GEOSS
  • National
  • North America
  • United States
  • census
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license_title Creative Commons CCZero
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maintainer Current Population Survey Office
maintainer_email dsd.cps@census.gov
metadata_created 2025-09-23T22:16:35.564365
metadata_modified 2025-09-23T22:16:35.564372
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