Current Population Survey (CPS)/Social Security Summary Earnings (SER) Exact Match File, March 1978

This data collection supplies standard monthly labor force data for the week prior to the survey. Comprehensive information is given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons 14 years old and older. Additional data are available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full-time, total income and income components, and residence. This file matches earnings data from Social Security summary earnings records (SER) for all persons over 14 years of age with data from the CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY: ANNUAL DEMOGRAPHIC FILE, 1978 (ICPSR 7836). SER data includes total earnings from 1937 through 1978, annual earnings from 1951-1978, and quarters worked for purposes of Social Security from 1937-1978. Information on demographic characteristics, such as sex, age, race, Hispanic origin, educational background, and household relationship, is available for each person in the household enumerated.