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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Current Population Survey > Publications > Additional Publications

CPS Publications

Most-Requested CPS Publications

Employment Situation news release (HTML) (PDF) (Charts) (Archives) (Schedule)

Effects of COVID-19 pandemic and response on the Employment Situation (Monthly impact summary)

How the government measures unemployment (HTML) (PDF)

Other economic news releases

Monthly, quarterly, and annual tables

Technical documentation

Browse data and publications by subject: CPS A to Z, demographics, labor force characteristics, and earnings

Recent Research by CPS Staff

U.S. labor market shows improvement in 2021, but the COVID-19 pandemic continues to weigh on the economy (June 2022)

Demographic Changes in Employment during the COVID-19 Pandemic (February 2022)

Unemployment rises in 2020, as the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic (June 2021)

Job market remains tight in 2019, as the unemployment rate falls to its lowest level since 1969 (April 2020)

Labor Market Activity of Blacks in the United States (February 2020)

American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. labor force (November 2019)

Professional certifications and occupational licenses: evidence from the Current Population Survey (June 2019)

Tight labor market continues in 2018 as the unemployment rate falls to a 49-year low (May 2019)

Measuring labor market activity today: are the words work and job too limiting for surveys? (November 2018)

Workers in Alternative Employment Arrangements (November 2018)

Labor force characteristics of people with a disability (October 2018)

A Look at Contingent Workers (September 2018)

Electronically mediated work: new questions in the Contingent Worker Supplement (September 2018)

Great Recession, great recovery? Trends from the Current Population Survey (April 2018)

Who chooses part-time work and why? (March 2018)

The Current Population Survey—tracking unemployment in the United States for over 75 years (January 2018)

CPS Reports and Summaries

Minimum wage workers: Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2021 (Archives, Excel tables, and more)
Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity: Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2020 (Archives and more)
Earnings: Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2020 (Archives, Excel tables, and more)
Women: Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (Archives and more)
Working Poor: A Profile of the Working Poor, 2020 (Archives, Excel tables, and more)

From the Archvies: Charting the U.S. Labor Market (2006) (2005)

Browse data and publications by subject: CPS A to Z, demographics, labor force characteristics, and earnings

CPS Survey Methods Publications

Current Population Survey, design and methodology (Technical paper 77) (October 2019) (PDF)
(list of formulas, expressions, and component variables in spoken version - XLSX)

Previous versions of CPS design and methodology:
- Technical paper 66, October 2006 (PDF)
- Technical paper 63, revised March 2002 (PDF)
- Technical paper 63, March 2000 (PDF)

Last Modified Date: September 23, 2022