Monthly survey of roughly 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; primary source on labor force characteristics of the U.S. population; official source of the U.S. unemployment rate and poverty estimates.
A monthly household survey of sample households (approximately 65,000 assigned; 56,000 eligible for interview) of the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States. The survey provides monthly statistics on employment, unemployment, demographic data, and related subjects which are analyzed and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
a monthly survey of a sample of U.S. households done by the U.S. Census Bureau; it measures employment, unemployment, the labor force, and other characteristics of the U.S. population.
CPS is the monthly survey of households used to estimate the number of persons employed or unemployed (CLF) and to calculate the unemployment rate.
is the official survey instrument for measuring the labor force in the United States. A survey of about 56,000 households is conducted throughout the nation each month by trained interviewers. Employment and unemployment data for Colorado reflect responses of approximately 1,900 households within the State which are represented in the CPS sample.
These monthly interviews are conducted by the Bureau of the Census with a scientifically selected sample of households in several hundred sample areas throughout the United States. The primary purpose of the CPS is to collect up-to-date information about the number of persons in the country who are employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force in a specific survey week. The CPS is the source of the official monthly unemployment rate figures. CPS questions included in the NLSY97 surveys are the same as the CPS questions used to determine employment status and are administered as closely as possible to the method used by the Bureau of Census so that findings are comparable.
A monthly survey of households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides a comprehensive body of data on the labor force, employment, unemployment, and persons not in the labor force.
The CPS is a national monthly household survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census to gather various information including health insurance status on the noninstitutionalized U.S. population.
A monthly household survey of the civilian noninstitutional population, and wages, by industry, occupation, and demographic characteristics. Estimates are prepared directly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and are used by the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth (MDLEG) as an input to derive civilian labor force, total employment and unemployment estimates for the state. There are approximately 2,000 Michigan households included in this survey. Microdata for this survey are collected by the Bureau of the Census.
The Current Population Survey (CPS) http://www.census.gov/cps/ is a National account and a statistical survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS uses the data to provide a monthly report on the Employment Situation http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm. This report provides estimates of the number of unemployed people in the United States.
