Current Population Survey: Merged Outgoing Rotation Groups, 1979-1994

<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 1979-1994. 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>