Current Population Survey, March/April 1992 Match File: Alimony and Child Support

<p>This data collection is comprised of responses from the March and April installments of the 1992 Current Population Survey (CPS). Both the March and April surveys used two sets of questions, the basic CPS and a separate supplement for each month. The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment. In addition to the basic CPS questions, respondents were asked supplemental questions in March about the economic situation of persons and families for the previous year. About 53,000 of the housing units interviewed in March were interviewed again in April. In these housing units, all women aged 15 years and older, who had children, were asked the April CPS supplemental questions. These questions concerned child support and alimony payments. Of the 84,000 women found eligible in March, 80,000 of these women matched women interviewed in April. For the remaining 4,000 women interviewed in March the child support and alimony information was imputed. Information regarding child support and alimony were collected to determine the size and distribution of the female population with children affected by divorce or separation. Moreover, the data were collected to better understand the characteristics of persons requiring child support and alimony, and to help develop and maintain programs designed to assist in obtaining child support. These data highlight alimony and child support arrangements made at the time of separation or divorce, amount of payments actually received, and value and type of any property settlement. This collection also contains data covering nine noncash income sources: food stamps, school lunch program, employer-provided group health insurance, employer-provided pension plan, personal health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS), and energy assistance. Demographic variables include age, sex, race, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income. Data on employment and income refer to the preceding year, although other demographic data refer to the time at which the survey was administered. (Source: ICPSR, retrieved 06/23/2011)</p>

本数据集收录了1992年当前人口调查（Current Population Survey，CPS）三月与四月轮次的调查回复数据。三月与四月的调查均采用两套问卷体系：基础CPS问卷与对应月度的专项补充问卷。作为月度开展的劳动力调查，CPS用于提供美国人口经济状况与活动的当期估算结果。具体而言，CPS可估算总就业人数（涵盖农业与非农业就业）、非农业自营劳动者、家政工人及非农业家庭企业中的无报酬帮手、薪资雇员规模，以及总失业人数的估算值。除基础问卷外，受访者还需在三月完成关于上一年度个人与家庭经济状况的补充问答。三月受访的约53000个住房单元在四月再次接受访谈。在这些住房单元中，所有育有子女的15岁及以上女性需填写四月CPS的补充问卷，问题内容涉及子女抚养费与赡养费的支付情况。三月筛查出的84000名符合条件的女性中，有80000名成功匹配至四月的受访女性样本；剩余4000名三月受访女性的子女抚养费与赡养费信息则通过插补法完成补齐。收集子女抚养费与赡养费相关数据，旨在明确受离婚或分居影响的有子女女性群体的规模与分布特征。此外，本次数据采集还为了更深入地刻画需要获取子女抚养费与赡养费的群体特征，并助力开发和维护旨在协助获取子女抚养费的相关帮扶项目。本数据集涵盖了分居或离婚时达成的赡养费与子女抚养费安排、实际收到的支付金额，以及任何财产分割的价值与类型。此外，本数据集还包含九类非现金收入来源的数据：食品券、学校午餐计划、雇主提供的团体健康保险、雇主提供的养老金计划、个人健康保险、医疗补助（Medicaid）、医疗保险（Medicare）、统一服务人员平民健康医疗计划（Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services，CHAMPUS），以及能源援助。人口统计变量包括年龄、性别、种族、婚姻状况、退伍军人身份、受教育程度、职业与收入。其中，就业与收入数据对应调查开展前一年的情况，而其余人口统计数据则对应调查实施的时点。（数据来源：ICPSR，检索日期：2011年6月23日）