Current Population Survey: Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups, 1983-1990

<p>This data collection contains the Current Population Survey (CPS), which is a monthly household survey of employment and labor markets. Prepared by the National Bureau of Economic Research, this collection contains extracts from the CPS for 1983-1990. The extracts include individual data for about 30,000 individuals each month. The 50 or so variables selected relate to employment: hours worked, earnings, industry, occupation, education, and unionization. The extracts also contain many background variables: age, sex, race, ethnicity, geographic location, etc. Aside from standardizing the many different codes used by Census to indicate missing values, most variables are just as created by Census.Since 1979 only households in months 4 and 8 have been asked their usual weekly earnings/usual weekly hours. These are the outgoing rotation groups, and each year the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers all these interviews together into a Merged Outgoing Rotation Group File.</p>