Current Population Survey: Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement Survey, United States, 2017

The Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) 2017 Supplement is part of the Current Population Survey (CPS) Series. The CPS is a source of the official Government statistics on employment and unemployment. The Census Bureau conducts the ASEC (known as the Annual Demographic File prior to 2003) over a three-month period, in February, March, and April, with most of the data collected in the month of March. The ASEC uses two sets of survey questions, the basic CPS and a set of supplemental questions. 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 questions from the ASEC, which provides supplemental data on poverty, geographic mobility/migration, and work experience. Comprehensive work experience information was given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons aged 15 and over. Additional data for persons aged 15 and older were available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full-time, total income and supplemental income components. Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income. Data on employment and income refer to the previous calendar year, although demographic data refer to the time of the survey. The occupation and industry information variables in this data collection can help the data users identify individuals who worked in arts and culture related fields. The occupations are listed in a category entitled "Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations," which includes professions such as artists, designers, actors, musicians, and writers (see Appendix B of the User Guide for further category details). Industries related to the arts and culture are in the "Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation" category (see Appendix C of the User Guide for further category details). For example, using the occupation and industry information variables from the ASEC help data users to obtain statistics about people in artists occupations that receive supplemental income, live public housing, or are full-time students. The ASEC data provided by the Census Bureau are distributed in a hierarchical file structure, with three record types present: Household, Family, and Person. The ASEC is designed to be a multistage stratified sample of housing units, where the hierarchical file structure can be thought of as a person within a family within a household unit. Here the main unit of analysis is the household unit.

《2017年年度社会经济（ASEC）补充调查》是《当前人口调查（CPS）》系列的一部分。CPS是官方政府就业和失业统计数据的来源。普查局在每年的二月至四月，为期三个月的时间内进行ASEC调查（2003年之前被称为年度人口档案），其中大部分数据在三月收集。ASEC采用两组调查问题，即基本CPS和一组补充问题。CPS是每月进行的劳动力调查，提供对美国人口经济状况和活动的当前估计。具体而言，CPS提供了总就业（包括农业和非农业）、非农业自雇人士、家庭佣工和非农业家庭企业的无偿帮工、工资和薪金员工的估计，以及总失业的估计。除了基本CPS问题外，受访者还被问及ASEC的问题，这些补充数据包括贫困、地理流动性/迁移和工作经验。对于15岁及以上的人群，提供了关于就业状况、职业和行业等方面的全面工作经历信息。对于15岁及以上的人群，还提供了有关每周工作天数和每周工作时间、未全职工作的原因、总收入和补充收入组成部分的额外数据。人口统计学变量包括年龄、性别、种族、西班牙裔血统、婚姻状况、退伍军人身份、教育水平、职业和收入。就业和收入数据指前一年的数据，而人口统计数据则指调查的时间。在此数据收集中的职业和行业信息变量有助于数据用户识别在艺术和文化相关领域工作的人员。职业被列在“艺术、设计、娱乐、体育和媒体职业”类别中，包括艺术家、设计师、演员、音乐家和作家等职业（详见用户指南附录B中的类别详细信息）。与艺术和文化相关的行业属于“艺术、娱乐和休闲”类别（详见用户指南附录C中的详细信息）。例如，使用ASEC中的职业和行业信息变量，可以帮助数据用户获取关于艺术家职业人员补充收入、居住在公共住房或全职学生的统计数据。普查局提供的ASEC数据采用分层文件结构进行分发，其中存在三种记录类型：家庭、家庭单位和个人。ASEC旨在成为住房单位的分层多阶段样本，其中分层文件结构可以被视为家庭单位中的家庭成员。在此，分析的主要单位是家庭单位。