Current Population Survey, October 2006: School Enrollment Supplement

This data collection is comprised of responses from two sets of survey questionnaires, the basic Current Population Survey (CPS) and a survey on the topic of School Enrollment in the United States, which was administered as a supplement to the 2006 October CPS. The Census Bureau and the National Center for Education Statistics also jointly sponsor the supplemental questions for October. 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, for the week prior to the survey. 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. The October supplemental survey queried respondents on school enrollment for all persons in the household aged three and over. Information was collected on current grade at public or private school, whether attending college full- or part-time at a two-or four-year institution, year last attended a regular school, year graduated from high school, grade retention, and whether any business, vocational, technical, trade, or correspondence courses were ever taken. Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income.

本数据集由两套调查问卷的回答组成，包括基本的当前人口调查（CPS）以及作为2006年10月CPS补充的关于美国学校入学情况的调查。美国人口普查局和国家教育统计中心亦共同赞助了10月份的补充问卷。CPS是一项每月进行的劳动力调查，旨在提供关于美国人口在调查前一周的经济状况和活动情况的最新估计。具体而言，CPS提供了总就业（包括农业和非农业）、非农业自营人员、家庭佣工以及非农业家庭企业的无偿帮工、工资和薪金雇员的估计，以及总失业率的估计。10月份的补充调查对家庭中三岁及以上所有人的学校入学情况进行了调查。收集的信息包括当前就读的公立或私立学校的年级、是否在两年或四年制机构全日制或非全日制就读大学、最后就读正规学校的年份、高中毕业年份、留级情况，以及是否曾参加过任何商业、职业教育、技术、贸易或函授课程。人口统计学变量包括年龄、性别、种族、西班牙语裔起源、婚姻状况、退伍军人身份、教育程度、职业和收入。