Current Population Survey (CPS) Public Sample Data

The Current Population Survey (CPS), sponsored jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), is the primary source of labor force statistics for the population of the United States.

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|-- [  1817223 Jan  4 20:54]  CPS_March_Codebook_2013.pdf
|-- [  1760645 Jan  4 20:54]  CPS_March_Codebook_2014_traditional.pdf
|-- [  1547380 Jan  4 20:54]  CPS_March_Codebook_2015.pdf
|-- [      214 Jan  4 20:53]  about_cepr.txt

Historical Data

Stata Annaul Data


|-- [154M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_1990.dta
|-- [130M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_2000.dta
|-- [205M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_2010.dta
|-- [202M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_2013.dta
|-- [146M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_2014.dta
|-- [200M Jan  4 20:54]  cepr_march_2015.dta
|-- [191M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2016.dta
|-- [192M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2017.dta
|-- [184M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2018.dta
|-- [656M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2019.dta
|-- [575M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2020.dta
|-- [465M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2021.dta
|-- [436M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2022.dta
|-- [415M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2023.dta
|-- [410M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2024.dta
|-- [404M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2025.dta

Stata MSA (NY,LA,CH) Data


|-- [ 25M Jan  4 20:54]  cps_msa_1990.dta
|-- [ 22M Jan  4 20:54]  cps_msa_2000.dta
|-- [ 22M Jan  4 20:54]  cps_msa_2010.dta
|-- [ 21M Jan  4 20:54]  cps_msa_2013.dta
|-- [ 68M Jan  4 20:54]  cps_msa_2019.dta
|-- [ 44M Jan  4 20:54]  cps_msa_2022.dta

Stata Annaul Data from IPUMS selected variables


|-- [10K May  24 20:53]  CPS March Data Dictionary
|-- [45M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2019.dta
|-- [40M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2020.dta
|-- [38M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2021.dta
|-- [36M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2022.dta
|-- [36M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2023.dta
|-- [36M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2024.dta
|-- [35M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2025.dta

CSC Annaul Data from IPUMS selected variables


|-- [36M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2019.csv
|-- [40M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2020.csv
|-- [32M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2021.csv
|-- [31M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2022.csv
|-- [29M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2023.csv
|-- [29M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2024.csv
|-- [28M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2025.csv

CSV Annaul Data


|-- [282M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_1990.csv
|-- [247M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_2000.csv
|-- [404M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_2010.csv
|-- [289M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_2013.csv
|-- [400M Jan  4 20:53]  cepr_march_2014.csv
|-- [408M Jan  4 20:54]  cepr_march_2015.csv
|-- [377M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2016.csv
|-- [402M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2017.csv
|-- [367M Feb  8 19:00]  cepr_march_2018.csv

Stata Historical Data from IPUMS selected variables


|-- [103M May  24 20:53]  cps_march_2019_2025.dta
|-- [1.1G May  24 20:53]  cps_march_1976_2025.dta

Examples using CPS


|-- [     1080 Jan  4 20:54]  cps_dummy_laborp.do
|-- [     2573 Jan  4 20:54]  cps_wage_model.do
|-- [     1842 Jan  4 20:54]  cps_dummy_laborp.sas